WorkLife event recordings and articles
Last updated: March 13, 2025
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Panel recordings
Employee Assistance Program
WA EAP: Self Compassion – Understanding and Learning to Love Yourself
This session is provided by WA EAP and designed to help employees cultivate self-compassion, foster emotional resilience, and navigate life’s challenges with greater ease.
Creating a Culture of Psychological Safety
Watch the recording from WorkLife’s virtual panel with WA EAP of how psychological safety can transform team dynamics by building trust, encouraging open communication, and promoting inclusivity.
Get to know the WA EAP: For employees and their families
Watch this recording of the July 12, 2023 presentation to UW employees and their family members about the new employee assistance program, WA EAP.
Home Ownership Webinar
Buying a Home with Down Payment Assistance and Homestreet Bank Affinity Program
Watch the recording presented by the HomeStreet Bank Affinity Program to learn about low down-payment programs and strategies and how to assess your eligibility for programs.
Reproduction Topics
UW resources for new and expecting parents
Watch the recording from WorkLife’s recent panel to better understand your options when it comes to leave time, updating your benefits selections, childcare options and lactation support resources.
The Whole Person Workplace
Unlocking Personalities: Understanding the Big Five Model
Explore the science of personality and its profound impact on our work and relationships with a captivating session on the Big Five Personality Model presented by Professor Michael Johnson.
Connecting across identities: Communicating respectfully with people across all gender expressions
Watch the recording from WorkLife’s virtual panel exploring the importance of using accurate, authentic and inclusive language when communicating with and about the LGBTQIA+ community.
Welcoming neurodiverse colleagues to your workgroup
Watch the recording from WorkLife’s panel on discovering strategies for creating a more inclusive workplace culture and authentically engaging new neurodiverse colleagues.
Articles
The Whole Person Workplace
Catching up with UW WorkLife
Focused on employee well-being and housed in the newly created Employee Experience division of Human Resources, UW WorkLife offers programming and resources to help UW employees thrive.
Unlocking Personalities: Understanding Yourself and Others Through the Big Five Model
Understanding the Big Five personality dimensions (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) can help us gain valuable self-insight and improve our relationships with others personally and professionally.
Inclusive strategies for welcoming neurodiverse team members
Authentically engaging new colleagues—whether they are out as neurodiverse or not—goes a long way toward creating a more inclusive, whole person workplace.
Communicating respectfully with people of all gender expressions
To create a more equitable and respectful society, we should aspire toward inclusive language use; to do so, we need to first understand what inclusive language is and is not.
Learn and engage this Disability Pride Month
Disability Pride Month is celebrated every July to mark the passing of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, landmark legislation that broke down social barriers to inclusion.
Aging and Adult Caregiving
Navigating the challenges of the “Sandwich Generation”
Sandwich Generation refers to adults simultaneously caring for children and aging parents, facing financial, emotional, and career challenges while managing dual caregiving roles.
Support a lonely senior this holiday season
Elderly isolation impacts millions, threatening health and wellbeing. Seattle organizations offer volunteer opportunities and resources to help combat this growing crisis.
Centering Mental Health
Develop emotional regulation and discover what your emotions can do for you
UW Professor Linehan explains emotional regulation strategies, describing how understanding and managing emotions can improve well-being through deliberate response techniques.
UW has resources to help you cope with election anxiety
UW offers resources and support programs to help faculty and staff manage election-related stress through mindfulness, exercise, and community connection.
A bad day every day: Strategies for addressing burnout
Some people call it quiet quitting. But genuine burnout leads to an inability to function on a personal, social or professional level successfully. It squashes motivation, increases feelings of depression and can lead to physical illness and chronic stress.
Support, educate or advocate this Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental Health Awareness Month offers the opportunity to refocus on self-care, acknowledge the importance of mental health, and honor the courage of millions of people living with mental health conditions.
Reproduction Topics
The case for lactation-friendly workplaces
Human milk is recognized as the optimal infant feeding method for at least the first 12 months of life to promote the health of both the lactating parent and the child.
Child Caregiving
Helping your kids prepare for success in college
College preparation involves balancing academic demands with emotional growth, as parents shift from authority figures to supportive advisors during this transition.
Planning for your child’s summer: UW programs, employee discounts and more
Now is the time to start planning for your child’s summer activities—check out these UW programs, area day camps, discounts for UW employees and more.