Wellness QUEST for Your BEST! People within your organization are invited to join this spirited wellness activity. Start by giving each participant a copy of the undated, desktop Health Care-toons Calendar along with an invitation to participate in Wellness Quest for Your Best! People are encouraged to take the calendar home and invite family members to join the health activities! There are various ways to conduct this engaging wellness program. Option 1: Each participant is assigned a raffle number. If their number is picked at random during the daily or weekly drawing, a member of the Wellness Prize Patrol will make a surprise visit or phone call asking them one question related to the daily health information shown on their Health Care-toons Calendar. One question might be to describe today’s Health Care-toon, wellness ‘Quest’ activity, inspirational quote, or joke. If they can describe any one of these correctly, they will become an instant Wellness Winner receiving an enthusiastic handshake and prize (e.g., fruit plate, theatre tickets, CD, Quest for Your Best! pen, free lunch, etc.). Wellness Winners can be given the option to share ‘One favorite way they seek higher well-being’ in the organization’s newsletter. Option 2: Every person participating in the program is given a Wellness Quest ticket on which to write one Wellness Quest activity they completed during the week. Tickets are entered in the raffle drawing.Option 3: Teams of participants can compete for awards by posting completed Wellness Quest tickets on their Quest for Your Best! bulletin boards. Teams posting the most tickets during the week win.Option 4: Individuals and families can use Social Media to Tweet about Wellness Quest activities they completed during the week. People posting their Tweets closest to predetermined times chosen by the wellness committee are Wellness Winners.

Wellness Quest Fundraising gives organizations (e.g., schools, churches, retirement centers, sports teams, music and art programs, day-care and fitness centers, businesses, charities) an effective way to earn money to carry out their mission by selling the Health Care-toons Calendar. At the same time, each sale will promote wellness for the individuals, families and groups purchasing the calendar.What is the Health Care-toons Calendar? This unique, spiral-bound, perpetual (undated) desktop calendar, offers daily Health Care-toons along with a related Wellness Quest challenge, Inspirational Quote, and Health Joke. All aspects of wellness are addressed including healthy eating, exercise, stress management, safety and self-care, drug use and abuse, humor, optimism, self-worth, communication, problem solving, environmental sensitivity, and much more. People enjoy the upbeat, proactive wellness messages that inspire daily action.Why Wellness Quest Fundraising needed? Many organizations need revenue to carry out their mission. With the declining economy, funds organizations have relied on in the past are drying up fast. In addition to earning substantial money, the organization is promoting higher well-being among its members and families!

Wellness Quest, LLC designs motivational products and programs that capture people’s attention and involves them in enjoyable, lighthearted activities creating a sense of ownership and readiness to pursue higher levels of well-being.New interactive programs are being developed using Social Media to engage individuals, families and organizations in daily health activities.

Research-based body-brain enhanced wellness and active learning practices are reported. Emphasis is placed on using movement and exercise along with multiple intelligences to enhance learning for all ages and learning styles. Healthy eating, stress management, and other wellness practices are needed to enhance learning.

Jeff Haebig shakes, rattles n' shows how the body/brain functions best, suggested by neuroresearch. Audiences watching movement sequences are invited to join in, mimicking actions that make the science of body-brain enhancement come alive!K-12 Student assembly programs and All-staff workshops involve participants in the most effective ways to teach and learn as suggested by behavioral an cognitive research.Body-brain Branches school-wide program inspires teachers to use research-based practices shown to engage all learning styles, especially hard-to-reach students.

Wellness Keynotes, Skill-shops, Rallies, and Family-Fun Fitness FestivalsSince 1983, Wellness Quest has provided interactive motivational programs designed to inspire vibrant living and learning. All wellness and body/brain-enhancing learning methods are role-modeled, giving participants a feel for the ease and naturalness of the practices. Effective ‘ready to use’ approaches are taught. Follow-up incentive programs are offered encouraging people to experiment with the skills being advanced; results are shared and celebrated. Participants choose to what extent they want to get involved during Wellness Quest programs. Creating a comfortable and exciting feeling tone is the hallmark of our work.

The Worksite Health Hub is a new approach offering more effective health promotion. By using a proactive motivational approach to wellness, Worksite Health Hub helps employees learn about wellness, apply what they have learned to their lives, and bring about commitment to wellness principles. Having all the motivational, educational and reinforcement tools readily available within Worksite Health Hub’s integrated Web and Wireless device portals, we can use an integrated approach, making wellness programs work more successfully. Worksite Health Hub has been designed to be the most effective approach available, reducing health benefit costs and absenteeism, and increasing employee productivity and effectiveness. Worksite Health Hub integrates, centralizes, and personalizes wellness activities offered by organizations. Organizations can achieve G.L.A.D. results using a interactive methodology that ‘Grabs’ employee’s attention every day, inspires ‘Learning’ in small segments of two minutes or less, helps individuals (and families too) ‘Apply’ healthy practices, and for deeper reinforcement, encourages people to become ‘Dedicated’ to a healthy lifestyle. Participation throughout the program is celebrated, heightening the joy of wellness.With over 26 years experience in the wellness field, I have been able to design the Worksite Health Hub combining the capabilities of the Internet and wireless devices with the experience Wellness Quest has gained developing motivational wellness programs. The integrated wellness portal Worksite Health Hub is a breakthrough in health promotion effectiveness.Currently Worksite Health Hub is in the early development phase. We are assembling a team of exceptionally skilled and inspired people including senior management, investors, technicians, creative personnel, and many others to launch the Worksite Health Hub.

Five years as a Physical Educator, coaching swimming and gymnastics.Twenty-six years teaching eighth grade Health. Originated the Enuf is Enuf Tobacco Buff tobacco prevention program, involving over 10,000 students at 40 schools. Middle school students lead elementary students though a highly choreographed movement and musical routine teaching health risks associated with tobacco. Each school assembly was videotaped and shown on Educational Access TV. Every audience member was videotaped demonstrating against tobacco use.