Bethel Uni­ver­sity Hosts Well­ness Week

MISHAWAKA- From Nov. 7 to Nov. 11, Bethel hosted a well­ness week. This week was ded­i­cated to help­ing stu­dents prac­tice well­ness in all ar­eas of their lives. The cam­pus held var­i­ous events through­out the week de­signed to en­cour­age stu­dents to cre­ate bal­ance within their lives. 

One of the main fo­cuses of the week was to un­plug from tech­nol­ogy and to have a greater un­der­stand­ing of the ef­fects tech­nol­ogy can have on peo­ple’s lives and on their well­be­ing. As part of this week, Bethel hosted psy­chol­o­gist Doreen Dod­gen-Magee, Psy.D. Dod­gen-Magee has spent a lot of her ca­reer fo­cus­ing on tech trends and the way they are shap­ing the world. 

Ac­cord­ing to Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty’s Well­ness Co­or­di­na­tor, Court­ney Chap­man, Well­ness Week was full of op­por­tu­ni­ties to prac­tice well­ness in stu­dents’ per­sonal lives as well as their re­la­tion­ships with other peo­ple and with God. There were mul­ti­ple events, all held in a well­ness tent that was set up on cam­pus. Ac­cord­ing to Chap­man, the goal was to have a warm space out­side where the stu­dents could un­plug and en­joy na­ture. Some of the events were wor­ship time, a bon­fire with Dod­gen-Magee, scrip­ture read­ing, prayer, art and a va­ri­ety of other events. 

“I’m sure dif­fer­ent pieces of the event im­pacted stu­dents in dif­fer­ent ways,” Chap­man said. 

She hopes that the event will cre­ate more con­ver­sa­tions about well­ness on Bethel’s cam­pus.