World Wellness Weekend

This year represents the 5th year of World Wellness Weekends and the second year that it will be in Austin, Texas. World Wellness Weekend is a health, wellness, and sustainable living festival that is dedicated to educating and empowering people to be healthier and happier. The festival takes place this weekend, May 30th through June 1st at the Austin Convention Center.

World Wellness Events

The World Wellness Weekend will include speakers such as; Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love), Bill Phillips (Body for Life), Marci Shimoff (Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out), and John Gray (Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus); will be providing tips and sharing experiences on how to live better and healthier.

Musical entertainment provided by Michael Franti, Papa Mali, Carolyn Wonderland, Afrofreque will fill the air of the convention center with the sounds of the world. There will even be an Eco-Fashion show this year that will feature fun and sustainably produced fashion.

World Wellness Expo

The wellness expo will feature over 150 booths and 80 classes, presentations and workshops that will teach attendees all about living a better life. Attendees will learn creating financial prosperity, healthy relationships, better lifestyles, as well as to improve physical, mental and emotional health.

This will be an interactive event that invites attendees to sample organic and healthy foods, to sample new nutritional products, enjoy a mini-massage and shop for hand-crafted items by local and global artisans.

World Wellness

The World Wellness Weekend represents the increase and interest in the importance of living a healthier lifestyle and to make healthier choices for yourself and your loved ones. Corporations can share this concern by encouraging their employees to pay more attention to their wellness and their health habits. EmployeeWellnessUSA.com offers valuable advice and information on how employers can help their employees live better.

Health fair activities put the spotlight on employee wellness

A health fair is a brilliant way to shake your workforce out of the doldrums and into better awareness of their health and wellness. A health fair brings your organization together to discuss employee wellness, examine health insurance and “cafeteria” insurance plans, explore health savings accounts, publicize corporate wellness programs and share success stories and challenges.

Some common health fair desired outcomes include:

• better awareness of the health services and resources available to employees, both from their employer and from local, state, regional and national health services;
• increased motivation for improving health behavior
• increased participation in employee wellness programs, commuter and carshare programs and health savings accounts
• better awareness of personal health status through health screenings, health fair activities, displays, handouts, and demonstrations, and
• better information on what employees are seeking from their employer’s health management initiatives, and which employees are interested in participating.

Planning a health fair

Planning a health fair is a lot like starting an employee wellness program on a smaller scale. Just like an employee wellness program, your health fair will need publicity, logistical planning, programming, targeted goals, in-house marketing and of course, executive approval. Festive touches like free food, kid-friendly activities, live music, art displays, talent shows and other community-minded fun will help cement the appeal of your health fair and ensure that the health fair becomes a welcomed, annual event.

You can find some health fair planning tips at the Family and Consumer Sciences site of Texas A&M University. These health fair tips are aimed more at community and non-profit organizers, but you can discover many useful health fair ideas at the site. And of course, don’t be afraid to contact EmployeeWellnessUSA at 1-800-299-7226 x228 for no-obligation health fair planning assistance and advice.

Health fairs are often your best recruiter

Many employee wellness planners find that health fairs are the primary reason why employees sign up for walking wellness programs, health savings accounts and other pro-employee corporate wellness programs. We at EmployeeWellnessUSA strongly encourage you to consider a health fair so your employees don’t miss out on these corporate wellness benefits.

Don’t forget - not only do employees value these programs highly, but the increased energy and decreased sick leave associated with wellness programs also saves your company money. The corporate wellness statistics are clear - healthier companies work harder and pay less in health insurance premiums.

Combine your health fair with onsite health screenings

You may also want to consider using your sitewide health fair as an occasion to organize an onsite health screening from EmployeeWellnessUSA. Our trained and licensed staff are well-versed in making health screenings painless for you. We come to your health fair, schedule testing with your employees via email, organize the data securely and deliver personal and aggregate reports to you and your employees. Our proprietary online health management system takes care of all the details, leaving you free to enjoy the health fair.

Have fun with your health fair - and don’t hesitate to contact EmployeeWellnessUSA if you would like our assistance with your health fair preparations!