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Purpose Workshops for Faculty and Staff

See our offering of workshops for faculty and staff below. Some sessions may have limited dates, but if you'd like to schedule a free workshop with your team or unit, please reach out to purpose@mail.wvu.edu

Featured Workshops

Looking for workshops that focus on learning about or applying your CliftonStrengths®? Check out our strengths workshops for faculty and staff .

Week of Purpose: Purpose-Focused Yoga

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Wind down Week of Purpose with a free, relaxing, purpose-focused yoga session in the heart of the downtown campus! Certified Yoga Instructor and Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths Coach, Julie Gruber, will lead this session in Woodburn Circle while also using purpose-based guided meditations to help you envision the impact you want to make on the world.

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Deep Kindness

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

This workshop encourages participants to leverage common kindness to grow resilience, build on their emotional intelligence skillset and practice deep kindness both to themselves and others. We will explore not only how to practice deep kindness, but how to accept deep kindness from others and how to navigate when our deep kindness is rejected. In addition to helping build essential skills, this workshop looks at wellbeing through the lens of selfless gratitude and encouragement.

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Building the “Fun” Habit Workshop

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Evaluate how much time you spend pleasing, living, yielding, and agonizing. Brainstorm how to bring more fun into our life, and discuss the science behind why we are focusing on fun versus happiness.

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Communicating Your Values

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Discuss the importance of communicating your personal values in a professional context at work to help you build trust, credibility, and rapport with your colleagues, students, and other university constituents.

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Creating Glimmers: How Full is Your Bucket

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Discover how to create glimmers—tiny moments of goodness and joy for yourself and others—and learn how these glimmers in combination with Don Clifton’s theory of “Bucket Filling” can positively impact your productivity, health, and longevity.

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Seeking Joy in the Everyday

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Focus on how you can seek to more fully experience joy from everyday occurrences, improve your moods and have a more positive mindset. Discuss how to use the power of our surroundings to live fuller, healthier, more purposeful lives that are truly joyful!

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Stories of Impact

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Define your values, identify where you have seen changes in your values over time, identify how your values show up in your personal story, and effectively communicate your values and how they helped shape your experiences.

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