Offcourse

Issue 6 June 2006   |    Email Offcourse - Christel.Kent@adm.monash.edu.au.

Have you completed the Thrive program?

More than 150 staff members from Caulfield campus have completed the THRIVE program and learned strategies for relaxing, sleeping better, overcoming worry and balancing the challenges of work.

Before and after measures show a significant decrease in a number of stress related symptoms and an increase in positive feelings.

The second and final cycle for 2006 for the THRIVE program at Caulfield begins on Thursday 3 August, 1.00 to 2.00 p.m. and runs for eight weeks.

Register your interest now and get your Tools for Resilience, Insight, Vitality and Empowerment.  Further details can be found at the Thrive at Work web page.

To register please contact Michael Di Mattia via email or telephone ext. 32500.

Opening of new Spiritual Centre 

All staff and students are warmly invited to participate in the opening of the new Spiritual Centre and Quiet Space on Caulfield campus on Thursday 20th  July at 2.30 pm. 

The Centre will also be open at lunchtime every day on the following week for people to drop in and have a look and meet some of the chaplains.   

The Spiritual Centre is available for groups and/or individuals to use for spiritual/religious activities such as seminars, meetings, study and prayer.  The Quiet Space provides an opportunity for individuals to have time-out from their work to meditate, pray or relax.  Both the Centre and Quiet Space can be booked at Community Services where the key is located. 

The Spiritual Centre is located on Level of Building B, opposite Community Services.  

For catering purposes, please RSVP to Community Services on ext 32500 by Monday 17 July.

get ACCTIVE Group - 10,000 Steps   

The World Cup Challenge

As the World Cup Challenge draws to a close, the majority of the fifteen teams participating in our latest Challenge will reach Berlin for the World Cup Soccer final between Italy and France or Portugal on Sunday 9 July. 

Congratulations are extended to the walking team of  England/Serbia & Montenegro for reaching Berlin on the 16 June, and finishing in second place was Germany/Ukraine. 

Remember : good health is not a gift, but it's worth striving for!!

Million Steppers Club

Million Steppers Club - join up.  Register on the 10,000 steps website (100000steps.org.au) - and note your steps.  Record your steps and when you have reached 1,000,000 steps please advise Christel Kent via email (together with a copy of your "recorded steps"). You will then be asked if you would like to become a member of the Million Steps Club and if so, requested to pay a membership fee of $10.00.  Each member of the club, as they walk their first 1,000,000 steps and subsequent million steps will receive a certificate and a reward (t-shirt, cap/visor, water bottle, etc.)

Our first member of the Million Steppers Club is Jill Grogan of the Caulfield Health Service.

Campus Watch   

The university’s Security Advisory Office is about to launch ‘Campus Watch’, a proactive initiative designed to promote a greater level of campus community participation and awareness among students, staff and others regarding important local security issues.

It is intended that a ‘Campus Watch Committee’, comprising Monash students, staff, visitors and relevant others be established at each of the university’s campuses to inform, design, recommend and assist the implementation of suitable preventive strategies in support of a safe university environment.

A Campus Watch Information Session will be held at the Caulfield campus, at 11:30am to 12:30pm on Thursday 6 July 2006 in Tutorial Room, H2.20.

The sessions seek to provide all those interested with detail on how the ‘Campus Watch’ program will operate, program objectives, and the role of Committee Members and Zone Representative Officers.

The Campus Watch program is supported by the Monash University Security Services, a unit of the Facilities and Services Division.

For further information please contact Anh Luong, University Crime Prevention Officer on +61 3 9902 0087 or email
anh.luong@adm.monash.edu.au.

Global Corporate Challenge - 2006 Team   

Forty days in and our team participating in the Global Corporate Challenge is currently fifth. 

If you see any of the team members, some who are in the photo below, please pass on a few words of encouragement. 

Five members of the GCC Team 2006 - from left to right Jacqui Hughes, Rosemary Demirtas, Jason Ceddia, Renee Gedge and Peter Lausch  Not in the photo are James Lenihan and Felicity Allen

$2 Gym Visits

With shorter and colder days fast approaching, the Monash Sport Fitness Centre - Caulfield is offering all staff casual access to the gym for only $2.00 a visit, that's a saving of $8.00.  Casual access visits include use of all cardio equipment (treadmills, bikes, rowers, steppers and cross trainers), free weights and pinloaded weights apparatus.

This offer is valid until 24 July.

Justice of the Peace on campus  

Rod Simpson, Justice of the Peace, is available on Tuesdays from 10am to 2.30pm in A1.19 to provide a Certification and Statutory Declaration/Affidavit witnessing service.   If you need documents witnessed at other times please contact Christel Kent who will provide you with names of other staff who can assist.

Media Communications Office  

A reminder that the Media Communications Office has a presence on campus.  Robyn Anns is working at Caulfield on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and her office is 3.115 in Building H.  Robyn can be contacted on 0417 568 781.

Religious Service - Rosary Prayer 

Rosary prayer is available Monday to Friday 12.15 p.m. at the Campus Religious Centre,  Room T3.01.  For additional information please email monashcatholics@blogspot.com

Caulfield Profiles

This month we profile James Lenihan, one of our team members of the Global Corporate Challenge .....

What is your position here at Monash Caulfield?

Logistics Officer with Accounting and Finance.

How long have you been with Monash?  Perhaps you could tell us a little about your time before you came to Monash.

I have been here since January but also worked for the department in 2003.  I moved to Melbourne in 2002 after working in London for a several different companies including the British Museum and Carl Bro - a civil engineering company.  I moved to London from NZ where I had been in the army as a platoon commander.


What do you like to do in your spare time?
I enjoy the occasional round of golf and try to visit the national parks in our area as much as possible - we live in Ferntree Gully.  My wife and I love the variety of places to dine out in Melbourne and we try to visit as many as we can.  That is, when we're not at home trying to copy Bill Granger recipes for dinner parties. I'm also studying at RMIT and find that takes a lot of my spare time.


Do you have a favourite quote/quotes you would like to share?
Never ever, bloody anything... ever.
and  Never apologise.  Those that accept it will take advantage of you. Those that don't aren't worth your time.


Where do you see yourself in five years time?

Hopefully will have completed my Bachelor of Engineering by then.  I think the skills I'm learning will apply to a lot of areas, not just the engineering industry, so I guess I could end up anywhere!

Have you travelled very much?  If so, where was your favourite
destination?  If not, do you have plans to travel soon?

I spent time in Antarctica while with the NZ Army.  I stayed in Ghana, West Africa, for four weeks while on my way to London.  While living in London I travelled to Spain, France, Ireland, Italy and Egypt.

If you would like to be "profiled" in an upcoming edition of Offcourse, please email me at Christel.Kent@adm.monash.edu.au.