Wellness, Technology and Balance

Priority Actions

• Create opportunities for social connection across the community, including onboarding of new families and students

• Foster community well-being by listening and creating welcoming spaces, empowering students, and creating structures/programs that support relationships and belonging

• Institutionalize the Wellbeing Committee, including FISCares, and adapt this model for students

• Establish and communicate an Employee Assistance Program to support employees to access mental health resources

• Audit events to determine when in-person, virtual and blended options are most appropriate, including parent conferences and meetings

• Build a program of neighbourhood gatherings hosted offsite to support social connections among parents

• Ensure outdoor learning is maximized and embedded in the curriculum for all ages (FS-8) to promote learning in a rejuvenating, natural environment

1. As we move back to pre-pandemic levels of programming at FIS, does this Wellness and Balance Strategy that was linked to the pandemic now move to an institutionalized directive rather than its current Strategy status?

2. What will be the best way to evaluate the success of the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that has been instituted this year?

3. A new, cross divisional faculty-staff Social Committee will be in place as we start the new school year. How would this group best support wellness and balance at FIS?

4. Our FIS PTGs are the bedrock of supporting our parent community. They will return to their traditions of on and off campus gatherings, but are there learnings from the past two years that should be retained?

5. Many parents have reported that the campus has felt “closed” to them. How do we best counter this sentiment and return to that “family oriented” feel at FIS?