About August’s Wellbeing Theme: Healing

Here’s Your Admin Strategy Guide for August 2025

Traditional Definition of Prioritize: The process of making or becoming sound or healthy again.

How We’re Thinking About It: Acknowledging hardship and creating space for recovery and repair, both individually and collectively.

Why Healing Matters at Work

Healing isn’t a word we often hear in the workplace, but it belongs there. Work is demanding, and over time, stress and setbacks take a toll. Beyond work itself, many employees are carrying unseen burdens, from personal challenges to the emotional weight of an increasingly difficult world.

But healing isn’t just about fixing what’s broken. It’s about creating a culture that normalizes recovery, whether that means taking time off after a busy season, going to the doctor, or having the support of a coworker.

When workplaces make space for healing and recovery, employees are not only more satisfied, they show up with more clarity, energy, and purpose.

Bringing the Theme to Life

• ⚖️ Help Managers Support Healing
  Train managers in emotional first aid: the ability to recognize burnout and mental health warning signs. Encourage 1:1 check-ins that focus on energy levels, not just productivity, and equip managers with resources to support recovery.

• 🏖️ Rethink How Employees Use PTO
  Enforce a no-contact vacation policy to ensure employees can fully disconnect. If your team struggles with this, set clear expectations that employees on PTO should only be contacted in true emergencies.

• 🏖️ Encourage “Recovery Time” After High-Stress Work
  After major projects, busy seasons, or company transitions, give employees space to reset. This could mean a lighter meeting load, a recovery day, or deep work time instead of jumping into new tasks and projects.

This Month in Wellbeing

• 🏆 Community Challenge

  • The August Healing Challenge
    Life can leave us scraped up and stretched thin. Healing isn’t about toughing it out—it’s about tending to what’s tender. This month-long challenge invites you to take one step each day to care for what’s worn down, stressed out, or quietly aching inside you.

• 👥 Community Workshop Series

  • Making Space to Heal Workshop Series
    We can’t heal what we don’t acknowledge. We’ll create space to notice what’s feeling heavy—stress, grief, disconnection, etc.—and explore how connection, community, and collective care contribute to healing.
    Weekly series | 60-minute sessions | 2 weeks

• 🧰 New Resources

  • The Art of Sitting with What Hurts
    An exploration into working through emotional pain, offering practical techniques and affirming insights to help you pause, notice, and grow instead of powering through the tough stuff.

  • How Teams & Communities Can Heal from Stress, Conflict, and Change
    A practical guide to recognizing and addressing hidden emotional stress within groups, providing actionable strategies to rebuild trust and weave psychological safety into community spaces.

  • How Anger Can Heal
    A brief, empowering audio reflection that honors righteous anger and teaches techniques to turn that spark into clear, sustainable action
    

What Else is Happening This Month?

With the transition from summer to fall, August is a powerful time to focus on renewal. Here are some meaningful observances to highlight:

• 🛁 National Relaxation Day (August 15)
  Celebrate doing less. Encourage small breaks or a legit PTO day, and model it by blocking your own calendar for a slow-start morning or midday break.

• 👵 World Senior Citizen’s Day (August 21)
  Healing evolves as we age. Share resources on healthy aging, caregiving benefits, and ways employees can learn from older colleagues’ lived experience.

• 💪Women’s Equality Day (August 26)
  Achieving equality is an ongoing journey. Spotlight recent wins for gender equity at work, then outline one tangible next step, like reviewing pay across your team or expanding mentorship circles.

• 🏥 Grief Awareness Day (August 30)
  Healing includes acknowledging grief and loss. Make room for acknowledgment and recovery. Remind managers of grief-friendly policies, plug your EAP or mental-health resources, and normalize check-ins that start with, “How are you, really?”

• 📅 National Wellness Month
  Turn small, realistic habits into a month-long experiment. Invite teams to choose one daily reset: stretch between meetings, drink more water, or set a phone-free lunch, then share wins in a Slack thread!

• 💉National Immunization Awareness Month
  Prevention is quiet self-care. Post clear guidance on recommended vaccines and offer flex time for appointments, reminding your team that staying up to date protects coworkers and families alike.