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    Healthy County Boot Camp

    • January 29, 2025 - January 31, 2025 Multi-day
    • 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM
    • Renaissance Austin Hotel
      9721 Arboretum Boulevard
      Austin, TX
    • Contact your Wellness Consultant, Rachel Kucera or Regan Williams at (800) 456‑5974.
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    Healthy County Boot Camp

    Ballroom Foyer

    Location: Lobby

    Ballroom Foyer

    Location: Ballroom Foyer

    These are three breakout sessions that involve making healthy snacks and breathing exercises. During these sessions you will get hands on experience, tips and tricks to healthy habits. Pre-Registration is required as there is a limited capacity.

    Biral and Tasha: Are You Tired of Humdrum Vegetables? Here Comes Hummus! | SanAntonio
    When you hear the phrase, “Eat your veggies!” what comes to mind? Mushy peas? Tasteless soggy broccoli? Bland raw cauliflower? What if there was a way to actually enjoy your vegetables? Here comes hummus! This session will show you how to make hummus, a delicious dip that will liven up those veggies. Taste for yourself that veggies can be flavorful and fun!

    Stacey and Carrye: Empower Your Energy | Pecos
    The Wellness Wonders of Energy Balls!: Need a boost for the afternoon slump or a tasty on-the-go treat for your whole family? Join the fun as we explore the wellness boosting benefits of energy balls!

    Mark Zollitsch: Take a Chill Pill | Sabine
    Come relax after your stressful journey and prepare for the conference with deep breathing exercises, guided visualization and alternating muscle relaxation.

    Hosted by TAC Health and Employee Benefits Consultants

    Location: Glass Oaks Ballroom

    Outdoor Activity: Run/Walk
    Indoor Activity: Step to the Beat: Line Dancing 101

    Location: Line Dancing- Trinity

    Ballroom Foyer

    Location: Lobby

    Ballroom Foyer

    Location: Ballroom Foyer

    Ballroom A

    Location: Ballroom A

    Moderator: Jonathan Collander, Employee Benefits Consultant, TAC | Speaker: Brad Montgomery Knowing that our people are our most valuable asset isn’t enough. We need to fully understand how to empower and inspire them. Brad Montgomery will use humor, stories, music, and other tools to illustrate ways to improve our ability to meaningfully encourage others. Discover ways to achieve untapped productivity and accuracy while sustaining positivity, optimism, and meaningfulness in others. Focusing on the people side of business not only improves the bottom line, but it can also be enormously satisfying, inspiring, and sometimes very funny.

    Location: Ballroom A

    Ballroom Foyer

    Location: Ballroom Foyer

    During this session, wellness coordinators and sponsors will learn their roles and responsibilities, share ideas, and interact with fellow coordinators in their territory, and discuss the wellness consulting services available to TAC Healthy County members.
    Attendees will:
    · Learn about the role and responsibility of a Healthy County Wellness Coordinator and Sponsor.
    · Learn about the 2025 Healthy County program.
    · Identify the new programs, services, and benefits provided by TAC HEBP.
    East and Northeast Region– Ballroom A (Livestream and In-Person)
    Moderator: Jonathan Collander, Employee Benefits Consultant, TAC
    Speaker: Ms. Ashley Whitfield, Wellness Supervisor, TAC
    Ms. Tasha Brent, Wellness Consultant, TAC
    Northwest Region– Sabine
    Moderator: Kathy Davenport, Sr. Employee Benefits Consultant, TAC
    Speaker: Ms. Stacey Bruington, Wellness Consultant, TAC
    South Region– San Antonio
    Moderator: Clarrissa Messinger, Employee Benefits Consultant, TAC
    Speaker: Ms. Biral Patel, Wellness Consultant, TAC
    West Region– Pecos
    Moderator: Ernesto Martinez, Sr. Employee Benefits Consultant, TAC
    Mr. Mark Zollitsch, Sr. Wellness Consultant, TAC

    Location: Ballroom Foyer

    Location: Ballroom Foyer

    Moderator: Biral Patel, Wellness Consultant, TAC | Speakers: Ashley Whitfield, Wellness Supervisor, TAC and Tasha Brent, Wellness Consultant, TAC During this session, attendees will learn the capabilities available through the WebMD One portal to support the goal of creating a positive workplace environment. We will review the different features available to create personal and organizational experiences for employees.

    Location: Ballroom A

    Ballroom Foyer

    Location: Ballroom Foyer

    Moderator: Stacey Bruington, Wellness Consultant, TAC | Speaker: Laura Putnam Wellness, as an industry, is thriving. But we, as people, are not. Join with Laura Putnam, wellbeing expert, as she takes you on a journey to revisit the world of wellbeing, taking a clear-eyed look at how the American Way is driving us to our chairs, overfeeding us with ultra-processed foods, and hijacking our attention. With a good dose of humor, Laura will show you how real wellbeing – for everyone – can only be achieved when we begin asking the question: What if it’s the water, not the fish?

    Location: Ballroom A

    Location: Ballroom Foyer

    Location: Trinity

    Main Event
    13301 N Hwy 183, Austin, TX 78750

    Location: Main Event 13301 N Hwy 183, Austin, TX 78750

    Outdoor Activity: Run/Walk
    Indoor Activity: Strech and Shine: Yoga for Beginners

    Location: Yoga- Trinity

    Ballroom Foyer

    Location: Lobby

    Ballroom Foyer

    Location: Ballroom Foyer

    Moderator: Mark Zollitsch, Sr. Wellness Consultant | TAC Speaker: Laura Putnam Given the world we live in (not conducive to better health and wellbeing), leveraging every workplace to promote better health and wellbeing is a really good idea. Moreover, the evidence is clear: a healthier, happier workforce is good for people, good for the bottom line, and essential for building high-performing teams. The good news is that nearly all employees today do have access to some type of wellness programming. But do these programs actually work? Evidence suggests most do not. In a provocative and insightful talk, Laura Putnam, author of Workplace Wellness that Works, shows you CAN get your workplace wellbeing efforts to actually work.

    Location: Ballroom A

    Location: Ballroom Foyer

    Moderator: Clarissa Messinger, Employee Benefits Consultant, TAC | Speaker: Laura Putnam Are managers our last great hope? When it comes to getting workplace wellness to work, they just might be. Here’s the thing: Whether or not wellbeing is part of the job description, every manager is in fact uniquely positioned to make or break their team members’ wellbeing. Moreover, “culture" largely comes down to what happens within the team. In this fast-moving session, learn about how managers can be the key drivers in launching “middle-out” movements of wellbeing, and the specific steps that each can take to become a Multiplier of Wellbeing!

    Location: Ballroom A

    Location: Ballroom A

    Location: Ballroom Foyer

    *Agenda subject to change