UMBC Eats Community Cookbook Recipe of the Week
Homemade Hummus

Ingredients:
1 15.5 oz. can chickpeas
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
¼ cup tahini
1 small garlic clove
2 tbsp. olive oil
½ tsp. ground cumin
½ tsp. salt
Paprika to taste


In a food processor, combine tahini and lemon juice and process for 1 minute. Scrape sides and process for 30 seconds more. Add olive oil, garlic, cumin, salt and paprika and process until well-blended. Drain the chickpeas, reserving some of the liquid from the can. Add half the chickpeas to the food processor and process for 1 minute. Scrape sides and add remaining chickpeas. 
Process until smooth, 1-2 minutes more. If the mixture is too thick, add reserved chickpea liquid and process until it reaches a creamy consistency. Taste and add additional lemon juice, olive oil, cumin, salt, or paprika to your liking.

Visit our UMBC Eats website to download your copy of the cookbook. 
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Today's talk is There's no shame in taking care of your mental health by Sangu Delle. When stress got to be too much for TED Fellow Sangu Delle, he had to confront his own deep prejudice: that men shouldn't take care of their mental health. In a personal talk, Delle shares how he learned to handle anxiety in a society that's uncomfortable with emotions. As he says: "Being honest about how we feel doesn't make us weak -- it makes us human."

After you watch, we invite you to reflect on the following:
  • What resonated for you in the video?
  • What lived experiences do you have, either personally or professionally that align with the core message of the talk?
  •  As you think of your role as a student, employee, or manager what feels relevant and useful to remember?
  • What are you taking away that feels meaningful - either a new perspective, a potential action, etc.
  • How might we take better care of ourselves and each other during this time?
If you're a supervisor, consider using this talk for team building purposes! You might send the video ahead of your meeting with several reflection questions on which you'd like your staff to come prepared to speak.
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SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning that supports you in navigating complex challenges in personal and professional life, helps you to increase your effectiveness, and to improve your relationships. Each course is 30 minutes or less and is curated to provide tools, strategies, and practices to accelerate your success.

This week's spotlight course is Beating Procrastination by Boosting Your Creativity and Drive (19 min)

Everyone could benefit from a boost in creativity. Whether you're in marketing and advertising, management, or software development, all professionals need to be able to come up with original ideas and think outside the box every now and then. But sometimes the pressure to think creatively is the very thing that blocks the flow of fresh ideas and results in the type of procrastination that is an obstacle to efficient time management. This course focuses on the relationship between procrastinating and creativity.

You'll learn about how the optimal amount of procrastination actually boosts creativity and efficiency. You'll also learn how to use creativity boosters to help you past those times when you procrastinate a little too much.

Participants will learn to:
  • describe the optimal amount of procrastination that a person should strive for
  • recognize strategies for overcoming personal tendencies and conditions that inhibit creativity
  • identify activities that promote creativity during a period of procrastination
  • use collaboration as a way to boost creativity and overcome procrastination
  • overcome procrastination by using techniques to take charge of your life
TO LOGIN:
Using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, Login to SkillPortusing your FULL UMBC email address for both the username and password boxes.

Once logged in, simply type the name of the course in the search bar. 

Need Login Assistance? Email hrtraining@umbc.edu to set up your account and to help with login difficulties. UMBC faculty and staff accounts are set up within 1 month of hire.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Visit our UMBC SkillSoft page for information on UMBC’s curated role and topic-based certificate tracks as well as professional industry certifications that align with SkillSoft courses.

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SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning to help you more masterfully manage yourself personally and professionally, improve your effectiveness in managing your work, and support you in skillfully leading your teams. Each course is 30 minutes or less and is curated to provide tools, strategies, and practices to accelerate your success.

This week's spotlight course is Taking the Lead with Workplace Motivation and Engagement (20min)

The best leaders are masters in workplace motivation and engagement. In this course, you will learn the characteristics of motivation and engagement, as well as techniques for optimizing both. You will also learn techniques for motivating and engaging yourself and others, in both onsite and remote situations.

Participants will learn to:
  • discover the subject areas that will be covered in this course
  • recognize the forces that drive motivation and engagement
  • identify techniques that foster self-motivation
  • recognize techniques that develop self-engagement
  • identify coaching techniques that maximize motivation and engagement in yourself or in others
  • recognize techniques for enhancing your motivation and engagement as a remote worker, or in others who work remotely

Using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, Login to SkillPortusing your FULL UMBC email address for both the username and password boxes.

Once logged in, simply type the name of the course in the search bar. 

Need Login Assistance? Email hrtraining@umbc.edu to set up your account and to help with login difficulties. UMBC faculty and staff accounts are set up within 1 month of hire.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Visit our UMBC SkillSoft page for information on UMBC’s curated role and topic-based certificate tracks as well as professional industry certifications that align with SkillSoft courses.

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Spinach Bagels 

Ingredients:
2 packs of frozen spinach
1 container grated Parmesan cheese
Granulated garlic
A dash of salt
1 tbsp. of olive oil or butter
5 whole bagels (sliced in halves)
10 pieces of provolone cheese


On stovetop, add spinach, olive oil or butter, salt, granulated garlic (to taste), and grated parmesan cheese until spinach is a creamy mixture. Place 10 bagel halves on a cookie sheet. Place cookie sheet in the oven until bagel has a light crust (Don't cook all the way). Take bagels out of the oven and put 2 tbsp. of spinach mixture on each bagel. Top each spinach bagel half with 1 slice of
provolone cheese. Place in the oven until cheese bubbles and gets a little brown. Take out and cool. Enjoy!

Visit our UMBC Eats website to download your copy of the cookbook. 
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An Invitation to Return...

There was a time in human history when each of us was alive and awake to both the beauty and the wisdom of the natural world. A time of awareness where we intuited that what was happening 'outside' was also happening 'inside' each of us. A time when nature was our teacher. The following practices invite you to return and rekindle this inner knowing for the sake of your own well-being, for the sake of our planet and for future generations to come who will inhabit it.

Principles of Mindfulness

Awareness - Paying attention to our attention - how and what we notice
Non-judgement - Our ability to accept experiences as they are without
evaluation or judgment
Peacefulness - Our ability to cultivate a state of peacefulness and equanimity
amidst changing conditions

Pay attention to these principles as you go through each exercise, bringing with you a sense of wakefulness, appreciation, and wonder to each experience.

5. Let Curiosity Be Your Guide 

Instead of setting out with an agenda, follow the impulse of your curiosity. What naturally interests you? Are you compelled to stop and touch a tree, observe a flower, bow to a stone. Notice and follow what is beckoning to you, calling for your attention.

This PDF was made possible with a grant from Center for Art Design and Visual Culture and Nature Sacred. 
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Today's talk is Want to be happy? Be grateful by David Steindl-Rast, a monk and interfaith scholar. The one thing all humans have in common is that each of us wants to be happy, says Brother David Steindl-Rast. And happiness, he suggests, is born from gratitude. An inspiring lesson in slowing down, looking where you're going, and above all, being grateful.

After you watch, we invite you to reflect on the following:
  • What resonated for you in the video?
  • What lived experiences do you have, either personally or professionally that align with the core message of the talk?
  •  As you think of your role as a student, employee, or manager what feels relevant and useful to remember?
  • What are you taking away that feels meaningful - either a new perspective, a potential action, etc.
  • How might we take better care of ourselves and each other during this time?
If you're a supervisor, consider using this talk for team building purposes! You might send the video ahead of your meeting with several reflection questions on which you'd like your staff to come prepared to speak.
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5/26 5pm: Kickboxing w/Yvonne

5/27 5pm: Yoga w/Joella

5/28 5pm: Strength & Core w/Jenn

5/30 10am: Tabata 30 w/ Maria

Complete schedule will be available 5/26 on our UMBC Recreation website:
https://recreation.umbc.edu/fitness-wellness/class-schedule/

-All classes will be posted on our IGTV @umbcrec and our Youtube TV Channel @ umbcrectv


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We are looking to start a gardening collective here at UMBC and we need your help! If you have experience gardening or are interested in certain gardening topics, we would like your input on our Google Form.  We will be collecting this information to plan our next steps.  Thank you for your interest and commitment to wellness!

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SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning that supports you in navigating complex challenges in personal and professional life, helps you to increase your effectiveness, and to improve your relationships. Each course is 30 minutes or less and is curated to provide tools, strategies, and practices to accelerate your success.

This week's spotlight course is The Art of Staying Focused.

The Art of Staying Focused (30 min)

Even if you know what's important to do, losing focus can stop your progress. No matter who you are or what job you do, focusing at work can be hard. Even with great schedule management and organizing skills, it's easy to get off track if you're not careful. In this course, you'll learn how to stay focused and stay on top of your schedule. You'll learn strategies for dealing with focus challenges and distractions at work. You'll also find out how to beat fatigue, manage your time, and decline work-related requests. And you'll explore how to adjust your focus to deal with change, and how to regain focus when you've lost it. 

Participants will learn to:
  • recognize tactics for avoiding procrastination and temptation and keeping focused
  • recognize tactics to beat fatigue and manage multitasking to maintain your focus
  • identify strategies for minimizing distractions in your environment
  • select the most effective response for declining a request
  • strategically adjust your focus in response to changing circumstances
  • recognize techniques for regaining focus
  • maintain your focus on a task despite internal and external challenges
TO LOGIN:
Using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, Login to SkillPortusing your FULL UMBC email address for both the username and password boxes.

Once logged in, simply type the name of the course in the search bar. 

Need Login Assistance? Email hrtraining@umbc.edu to set up your account and to help with login difficulties. UMBC faculty and staff accounts are set up within 1 month of hire.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Visit our UMBC SkillSoft page for information on UMBC’s curated role and topic-based certificate tracks as well as professional industry certifications that align with SkillSoft courses.

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