Intellectual Wellness involves engaging our curiosity to learn, find creative solutions, think critically, and open ourselves up to new ideas.
Why is Intellectual Wellness Important?
Your brain is a muscle. Continuing to challenge yourself and seeking out opportunities for knowledge can improve cognition. Learning and engaging with the world around us can lead to a fulfilling, well-rounded life. Seeking out opportunities to engage with thoughts, beliefs, and values other than our own can help us to become more open-minded and accepting of those around us. Lastly, focused learning can lead to improved concentration and memory.
Self Check-In
- Are you aware of available campus resources to help you study?
- Do you seek personal growth by learning new skills?
- Do you look for ways to use creativity and critical thinking skills?
- Do you learn about different topics that interest you from sources other than social media?
For any of the above questions that you answered no to, try to make that an area of focus to improve your Intellectual Wellness. If you have answered no to multiple, you may want to have this dimension be a top priority in order to benefit your overall wellbeing.
Where to start?
- Take our self check-in to assess your intellectual wellness! A great place to begin is first to understand where you are in terms of your intellectual wellness.
- Stay curious and explore new questions and ideas as they come to you.
- Read books and articles for fun, not just for work!
- Take courses outside your area of expertise.
- Get enough sleep! Adults, on average, need seven to eight hours of sleep per night. Sleep plays a crucial role in memory and our ability to retain information. You are more likely to retain what you learned if you are getting enough sleep.
- Practice active listening and participate in discussions.
- Take advantage of conferences or symposiums happening on campus or locally.
- Check out opportunities for professional development in Bridge!
Resources to support your journey
- Bridge is the University of Nebraska's learning management solution that houses employee learning and professional development.
- Review previous trainings to freshen up on your skills!
- Explore the learning library to find new trainings and opportunities for professional development!
- RecWell offers a variety of workshops and programs that teach both skills and content surrounding many health and wellness topics.
- Outdoor Workshops.
- Fitness Programs such as Learn to Lift (offerings vary by semester).
- Wellness on Wheels travels to various buildings on campus to hand out resources.
- Center for Faculty Excellence is dedicated to advancing excellence, facilitating professional success, and fostering faculty leadership through a collaborative approach, support the goals of UNO as a premier metropolitan university by providing and supporting a wide-range of professional development opportunities.
- Faculty Fulbright Program
- Upcoming Center for Faculty Excellence Events
- Access to Excellence: A Faculty Guide
- Provides easy access to ideas and strategies to enhance teaching and learning and to strengthen UNO's ability to educate all learners.
- Insights to advance faculty research and creative endeavors and elevate UNO's commitment to scholarship and discovery.
- CAPS provides presentations on topics related to mental health, such as suicide intervention, working with students with substance use concerns, etc.
- Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library serves as the primary source of academic information for the university community through its collections, academic and reference services, innovative and modern technology, exhibit and event programming, and modern physical facilities.
- Upcoming Events!
- Interested in stopping by? Check out the full library schedule!
- Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform with educational videos and documentaries provided through the Dr. C.C. & Mabel L. Criss Library.