Ontario winters are metabolically expensive. Your body works harder on temperature regulation, vitamin D drops, sleep patterns shift with changing light, social circuits often contract, movement decreases, eating patterns change. By March, different resources are depleted in ways we don't usually account for. Public service work requires steady capacity, sound judgment, and the ability to navigate complexity - all of which depend on internal reserves you can't see running low. This hour is about taking inventory of what got used up over the past months and preparing your mind the way you'd tend a garden in early spring - so the changes coming with longer days and warming weather actually fuel your motivation, capacity, and renewal of invisible assets instead of just adding more demands to a system that's already running low.
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About the Presenter
Wendy Lund brings over three decades of experience teaching health sciences to first responders and healthcare professionals. After spending 32 years as a professor at Centennial College—where she shaped curriculum for nursing, paramedics, and other health programs—she returned to school herself, completing an MSc in Mindfulness Studies from the University of Aberdeen in 2017. Her research focused on trauma in first responders, which led her to ask a question that most of our education skips: how do we teach people to manage difficult emotions before they're drowning in them? That curiosity became Wellth Management and more recently Good Grief Academy, companies built on the idea that mental wellbeing isn't just about avoiding breakdown—it's about building capacity upstream and meeting the tough stuff of life and work with skillful engagement. Her teachings have reached thousands of 1st responders and hundreds of corporate clients to help individuals and organizations how to create the conditions that cause wellbeing and flourishing in the workplace. Since launching in 2017, Wellth Management has helped organizations like Amazon Leadership, Brampton Fire and Emergency Services, Department of National Defense, Professional Engineers of Ontario, Ronald McDonald House, and the Ministry of Solicitor General to name a few.
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About the Presenter
Wendy Lund brings over three decades of experience teaching health sciences to first responders and healthcare professionals. After spending 32 years as a professor at Centennial College—where she shaped curriculum for nursing, paramedics, and other health programs—she returned to school herself, completing an MSc in Mindfulness Studies from the University of Aberdeen in 2017. Her research focused on trauma in first responders, which led her to ask a question that most of our education skips: how do we teach people to manage difficult emotions before they're drowning in them? That curiosity became Wellth Management and more recently Good Grief Academy, companies built on the idea that mental wellbeing isn't just about avoiding breakdown—it's about building capacity upstream and meeting the tough stuff of life and work with skillful engagement. Her teachings have reached thousands of 1st responders and hundreds of corporate clients to help individuals and organizations how to create the conditions that cause wellbeing and flourishing in the workplace. Since launching in 2017, Wellth Management has helped organizations like Amazon Leadership, Brampton Fire and Emergency Services, Department of National Defense, Professional Engineers of Ontario, Ronald McDonald House, and the Ministry of Solicitor General to name a few.