Employee Engagement

All UD faculty, staff, retirees and household members are eligible to participate. From the alpine peaks in Poland to the Great Pyramids of Giza, you’ll enjoy breathtaking images while learning about some of the world’s most treasured attractions.

Household Members should register using their affiliated UD employee or retiree's udel email address with hh1, hh2 or hh3 added to the end.
For example "jsmith@udel.eduhh1"

Registration support is available on the Worldwide Wellness help page: Worldwide Wellness - Support

Earn points each day by recording:

Physical Activity

    6000-7999 steps = 3 points

    8000-9999 steps = 4 points

    10,000+ steps = 5 points.

Daily Behavior

    1 Mindful Moment = 1 point.

NOTE: You don’t have to wear a tracking device to record steps — plug in your activity and exercise minutes, then Worldwide Wellness automatically adjusts them.

Join or form a team of 4-10 people!

Team participation is a friendly throw-down — it may be the most exciting part of Worldwide Wellness. Follow your team's ranking on the Leaderboard (based on average points and Flourish Friday challenges). And support, nudge, or give pep talks to each other on Team Chat.

Flourish Friday challenges:

If you’re on an official team, you’ll find an additional activity in your Friday morning email and on the Team page. If you record it by midnight CT, you’ll earn a bonus point for your team (1 bonus point/team member each week).

A Mindful Moment is a short, intentional pause taken during the day to center your attention, calm the nervous system, and reconnect with the present. These moments help reduce stress, improve focus, and support emotional wellbeing. You can practice a Mindful Moment in many ways, and in any setting: at your desk, during meals, on a walk or anywhere you need a quick reset.

Here are a few ways to practice:

1. Deep Breathing Take 5 slow, intentional breaths, in through the nose and out through the mouth. Focus on the sensation of breathing and gently re-focus your attention whenever the mind wanders. Try five-finger breathing.

2. 5-Senses Activity Pause and notice what you can see, hear, feel, smell, or taste in the present moment. This quick sensory scan helps anchor attention and reduce stress.

3. Mindful Eating Slow down and bring your full attention to your meal by reducing distractions, engaging your senses, and savoring each bite. Learn more about Mindful Eating from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

4. Mindful Intention Setting Take a brief pause to set an intention for your next task or part of the day. For example, “I will approach this meeting with curiosity” or “I will take things one step at a time.”

5. Micro-Meditation Use a 1-2 minute guided audio prompt or silent meditation to reset focus. Even short meditations have measurable calming effects. Explore meditation activities from the Greater Good Project.

6. Gratitude Pause Reflect briefly on one thing you’re grateful for, creating a small positive shift in mood and perspective. UD employees can send notes of gratitude to colleagues using the UDidIt! platform.

Looking for a daily activity? Try the Action for Happiness calendar.

Action for Happiness Daily Calendars

UD's wellbeing partner HES uses research findings from the growing field of positive psychology (the study of human flourishing) to create content that fosters a mindset of growth, optimism, hope, resilience, gratitude, self-compassion, and more. These feelings and cognitive processes are closely connected to wellbeing in countless ways:

• Optimism is tied to better resilience, fewer depression symptoms, reduced physical complaints, slower disease progression, and longer lives.

• Hope reliably predicts positive emotions and is linked with a greater sense of meaning.

• Further, hope is a vital precursor to positive change.

• Gratitude strengthens relationships and buffers against stress and adversity, among other benefits. People who keep weekly gratitude journals are more optimistic, get more exercise, are physically healthier, and feel happier vs. those tracking negative or neutral events.

Access the research and learn more about the science behind HES wellbeing programs