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Join our ASICS ambassadors Ardie Savea, Ameliaranne Ekenasio, and Kane Williamson in the world’s most engaging employee wellness initiative. Not only will it energize your people and deliver tangible improvements in team spirit and productivity, you will be helping protect the health of children across Aotearoa.
Proven by many of New Zealand's and Australia's largest companies to generate an immediate impact on team spirit and morale and make a real difference to how your people feel and perform every day, the virtual adventure is a cost effective online activity challenge that uses a personalised and entertaining approach that employees love, resulting in high uptake that creates a real buzz in your workforce.
Guided by sporting superstars Ardie Savea, Ameliaranne Ekenasio, and Kane Williamson, employees form teams, build their avatars and track their activity and other healthy behaviours in the real world to experience a virtual tourism adventure from Madagascar to Machu Picchu.
Not only does the event make a big impact on team spirit, a recent study by ASICS of desk based employees found after just one week of increased activity, employees’ State of Mind scores increased by 22.5%, anxiety levels dropped by 12%, perceived stress levels decreased by 14.7% and Productivity was boosted by 33.2% - all from just 15 mins of movement during the workday!
Many of our clients use the program as a highly visible annual event that drives engagement in their overall wellness program and recover the minor cost from reduced absence during the event, whilst experiencing a more engaged and productive workforce.
As well as improving the physical and mental resilience of your people, you will be making a real difference to the health of our future generations by enabling more tameriki to participate in our school program - so please contact us today to discuss how we can create customised event just for your company or how you can join a multi company event.
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About Us
For over 25 years, founder of the Young and Healthy Charitable Trust Kim Harvey has poured her energy, passion and knowledge into inspiring and empowering people, big and small, to nurture and improve their mental and physical health and wellbeing as well as they possibly can by taking small steps, every single day.
Kim started her journey by developing a home-based activity program for families to help them find their way to create sustainable healthy habits. With funding from Sport Auckland and teamed with a DHB dietician, she often brought her families together to have fun being active together in a supportive environment. This was so effective it was rolled out nationwide under the Green Prescription “Active Families” banner and continues today.
Seeing a gap in the market for a truly engaging workplace wellbeing program, Kim then worked with a passionate group of animators and developers at Azion Wellness to create an entertaining, online wellbeing challenge that has been embraced by workplaces in New Zealand and Australia for it's effectiveness in helping individuals to embed daily healthy habits that have long term positive impacts.
In 2019, Kim established the Young and Healthy Charitable Trust to provide a children's wellbeing program at no cost to schools nationwide and with the support of partners Zespri and ASICS the program is now helping over 20,000 children annually cultivate habits that will lay the groundwork for a lifetime of health and vitality.
Now in 2024 we are pleased to once again work with Azion Wellness to release an updated version of the very successful workplace program with the proceeds helping us deliver our school program at no cost to thousands more kiwi kids.
