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Employee Events

Live Well Leon hosts a variety of regular events throughout the year. See below for this month's selection. 

Upcoming Events

Explore upcoming Live Well Leon activities to help you stay active and engaged!

  • Heart Walk Registration Kickoff
    Description:
    The 2025 Big Bend Heart Walk is being moved up from the Fall this year and will be held on June 7th from 8:00/8:30-10:00 a.m., at Cascades Park. We will hold a Heart Walk Registration Kickoff on Wednesday, April 16th from 10:00-10:45 at the LeRoy Collins Library. Employees can register under Leon County, but we are encouraging departments to create teams to be listed under Leon County. The Heart Walk Directors will be at this meeting to share with you more about the Heart Walk's mission and answer any questions about this year's Heart Walk. If you would like to head up a team of walkers, we particularly encourage you to attend. There are few families that have not been affected by heart disease, so take this opportunity to help the American Heart Association continue their work to support fighting heart disease. We will have just finished up the Walking Challenge about this time, so this would be a great way for you and your team members to get together and keep the momentum going that you made during the Spring Into Motion Challenge! You can attend virtually or in-person. Please register if you want to attend in person. If you want to attend virtually, email Mary Barley at barleym@leoncountyfl.gov and she will send you the Teams link.
  • Yoga
    Description:
    This class brings the body, mind and spirit all together by focusing on the breathing. The benefits include relaxation, less stress, and increased flexibility and mobility, which everyone needs! Try it and see if you don't leave feeling refreshed and renewed!
  • Circuit Training
    Description:
    This class is exploding in popularity! Come see why everyone likes it so much! And enjoy the added bonus of meeting co-workers from all areas of the County! Don't worry if you have never exercised before or if you are struggling with an injury or any health issues.. Just tell the instructor and she will be sure to give you modifications. Several of us have them and we all just do what we can. Hope to see you there this month!
  • Coping with Anxiety and Stress through Creativity
    Description:
    Tired of feeling overwhelmed with stress and anxiety? Join us for a fun, interactive workshop where creativity becomes your secret weapon for relief from those anxious thoughts! Through simple, hands-on art therapy exercises, you’ll explore ways to shake off tension, boost your mood, and walk away with tools to handle life’s stress. Sarah Woods, a therapist from Mosiac Creative Counseling will deliver this LnL. Please try to attend if you sign up and let Mary Barley know if you register and are not available to attend. Lunch will be served. Please email Mary Barley at barleym@leoncountyfl.gov if you need a vegetarian option.
  • Yoga at the LCSO
    Description:
    This class brings the body, mind and spirit all together by focusing on the breathing. The benefits include relaxation, less stress, and increased flexibility and mobility, which everyone needs! Try it and see if you don't leave feeling refreshed and renewed!
  • Pilates
    Description:
    This class focuses on your core and legs, although upper body is included sometimes as well. A stronger core includes a stronger back, so if your back is weak, this is a great class for you. Pilates also increases your muscle endurance. The movements are slow and controlled so it focuses on the mind/body connection. People really like this class, so if you haven't tried it yet, take the time to do it this month!
  • Sleep! The least understood, most overlooked, utterly vital bodily function!
    Description:
    Dr. Ryan Curran, a Family Medicine doctor with CHP, will be here to talk about something near and dea to his heart......Sleep! His discussion will cover several topics about sleep. It will detail what sleep is and what happens during sleep. He will also review different factors that can disrupt sleep and how to improve sleep. Most importantly he will detail the consequences of not getting enough sleep. You definitely want to attend this talk. Your life may just depend on it!
  • Spring Into Motion Celebration and Awarding of Prizes to the winners!
    Description:
    Join us to celebrate the completion of the 2025, Spring into Motion, Walking/Activity Challenge! We will be awarding the prizes to the winners of the Challenge. Bring your stories from the Challenge to share with the group. Any successes, behavior changes, favorite new recipes, interesting things that happened with your teams.....we want to hear them all!
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For more events, visit the Live Well Leon Bookwhen Calendar.

Annual Events

Live Well Leon offers an annual Walking Challenge that also includes additional challenges within the Challenge to improve various areas of well-being, such as eating more fruits and veggies, getting more sleep, drinking more water, etc. Live Well Leon provides fitness watches to anyone that doesn’t have a fitness tracker to monitor their steps. Prizes are awarded by drawing the names of teams who have completed the Challenge, as well as those who started the Challenge but couldn’t finish it. (Life does get in the way of our intentions sometimes but making an effort counts!) 

Spring Into Motion Participant Video

Each fall, the non-profit, Working Well, whose mission is to help improve the well-being of our community’s workforce, hosts their annual Corporate Cup Challenge. This Challenge encourages teams from local business and government organizations to get outside, do some team building and have fun! Teams of four compete, with one team member biking, one running, one paddling and one doing strength and endurance exercises. Only one team can take the coveted Corporate Cup back to their office for the year, but plaques are also awarded for the All Male, All Female and Co-Ed teams and the best individual efforts in each leg. Plus, there is a Spirit Trophy given to the organization that brings the most co-workers, family and friends to cheer their teams on. Live Well Leon is always looking for teams to participate in this fun event!

Each November, Leon County holds its Annual Awards Breakfast. Live Well Leon created the Well-Being Awards to honor the Leon County employee who has made the most improvement in each of the four areas of well-being our program focuses on. Employees can apply themselves or be nominated. The winners include:

  • The Lego Award for Community Well-Being
  • The Ladder Award for Career Well-Being
  • The Champion Award for Physical Well-Being
  • The Butterfly Award for Social Well-Being

The annual Live Well Leon Souper Bowl Cookoff started in 2013. The week before the annual Sunday Super Bowl, employees sign up to bring either a soup, stew, bisque or chili for the Cookoff. The employees rank all entrees and then a panel of three “celebrity” judges, decide which of the top five ranks 1st, 2nd, and 3rd! The judging was so archaic to begin with, that in year five, Mark Early, the Supervisor of Elections, who was a judge, offered for his office to create a special ballot just for the judging and even had a couple of his employees bring an official voting machine the day of the event for us to enter our ballots. The top three winners get a $75/$50/$25 gift card. 

 

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