Playford College Health Challenge Official Activities
Day 1 of your Experience starts on Monday, September 5th, where we jump right into feeding, fueling, and focusing on YOUR healthiest human potential!
Call Replays
Today your fun Health Challenge with ShaeWellness is announced! During this presentation guided by Precision Health Expert, Dr Cam McDonald, he covers what to expect over the coming days, what precision health is, how it’s relevant to you, and onboarding into the latest in digital health ai-technology, including in-app biometric photo scans.
It’s Week 1 and you now have full access to your Challenge app! Your Week 1 call is interactive, engaging and designed to fast track understanding your app and how to use it for your best physical wellness. We will walk explore the pillars of physical health; plus, your introduction into the next evolution of workplace communication.
Your Week 2 call is an interactive and engaging session designed for you to have better awareness of your own mental health, as well as the impact you have on those around you. Each day is a constant flux, but knowing how to balance out in the ways that come most natural for you can make all the difference!
Week 3 is all about understanding YOU and the unique things that can cause, or reduce, your stress. The best way for all of us to avoid stress is to be in flow, and this comes when you play to your strengths and do things you enjoy. This call helps you to navigate Shae to support your flow, encounter more meaningful moments, and to reduce your physical and mental stress in a way that is personalised to you.
Your Week 4 call is interactive, engaging and designed for you to have better awareness of your own social and relational tendencies, as well as of those around you. Different minds process and share information in different ways. Experience how easy it is to level up your mindset and motivation when you can accurately anticipate your tendencies, and adapt to others.
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Meet The Challenge Support Team
We Are Here to Maximise Your Challenge Experience
Dr Cam McDonald
Dr Cam McDonald is the lead consultant for ShaeWellness, the world’s leading corporate wellness platform He is a leader, educator, scientist, motivator and father. Dr Cam studied and holds accreditation as an exercise physiology, accredited practising dietitian, and completed his PhD in the application of nutrition and exercise in preventing chronic disease. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine and is an international leader in the application of precision health, epigenetics and educates companies, health professionals and the general public alike on how the whole environment ecosystem impacts health and disease. What allows Dr Cam to leave an indelible mark on the audience is his ability to simplify the complexity of health principles, infuse hope and stimulate action. The combination of science, down-to-earth humour and elegant simplicity of truth makes him accessible, relatable and one of the best speakers in precision health and epigenetics.
Katey Leigh
Holding two decades in public and private corporate sectors, Katey is an enthusiastic fan of personalised health – a direct result of her own experience. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, and now on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Katey holds an Ma. Professional Communications specialising in International and Intercultural Communications; three international peer-recognised awards; and a Personalised Health Coach endorsement. Combining her professional background with her personal passion for health and wellness, inspires her every day. Katey has a specialisation in the area of biologically-driven communication, leadership, and relational tendencies. This focus on the human psyche guides powerful shifts for Leaders and Staff Members. Healthy communication starts with a healthy you.
Get Ahead of the Game
Get prepared and confident by learning the basics towards achieving healthy success. These are the videos to watch to help you on your way.
This is Epigenetics at Work
Shae™: Your Virtual Health Assistant
Foods
Foods ranked by best nutritional value for your unique needs
Mind
How will you master yours?
Social
How should you connect?
Fitness
Find out what fitness means for you
Place
Your space and environmental needs
Talents
How will you leverage your natural strengths?
What are ShaeWellness and Precision Health all about?
Browse the short videos below for some more insights!
Frequently Asked Questions
You have questions, we have answers. Read below, or contact us anytime.
Can I start to create my account, but do photo onboarding later?
To optimize your onboarding experience, schedule time to complete the app download, photo scan, and health questionnaire in your Shae app all at the same time.
I have a "Locked" Screen, now what do I do?
There’s nothing more you need to do! If you have the app, and you see the locked screen, you are set. The Locked screen is where you should be until Day 1 of your Challenge begins!
What is the Immersion Experience?
The Immersion Experience is all about focusing on YOU! All you need to do is follow along your simple lifestyle prompts from Shae! It’s also a way for companies to demonstrate to their staff they are committed to supporting you to be the happiest and healthiest version of you, you’ve ever been! It’s also a fun way to rally together with your coworkers to support one another in improving your health in a positive, collaborative, and supportive environment, with a little friendly competition thrown in the mix for a dash of excitement. And it’s days of FUN! ShaeWellness & Shae are on a mission to make healthy living a fun, rewarding, and engaging experience at work and at home.
Why am I participating in this Immersion?
You are participating in this 30 day Mental Health and Physical Wellness Immersion Experience to minimize your mental and physical health risks, and maximize your quality of life! You are being given an opportunity to access the world’s first epigenetic (genetics + lifestyle) health calculator that delivers individualized health information tailored specifically to YOU! It starts with you – getting to know your biology, discovering how unique you are, and what works for you regarding mind, food, stress, sleep, movement, social interactions and teamwork, environment, natural talents and the time of day that is best for all these things! We just happen to be the experts in this area and are excited to take you on this journey of discovering what is best for YOU.
What should I expect?
Expect fantastic results and you will receive them!
Expect to have fun!
Expect to learn fascinating insights!
Expect a little friendly competition!
If you commit to your health and wellness, you can expect to get healthy and happy. The camaraderie, support, teamwork, and connection increases the fun factor and the healthy challenge will improve your sleep, pain, stress, weight, and brain function. Everybody wins!
What do I have to do?
Download your App. Create your Personalized Profile. And put your profile into practice with friendly tips from Shae for 30 days! You are gaining access to personalized health insights unlike anything you have seen before. Make a full-on commitment to your own health for 30 Days by following the insights on your profile and Shae app; track results as your go; and hop on the LIVE weekly calls for clarity, inspiration, and fun connections! Let’s go!
And watch your stress, confusion, and overwhelm melt away as you learn what is best for your unique body, and begin to FEEL the results – sometimes almost immediately!
Do I really need to take a photo of myself?
The photo scan is used to create your unique avatar. ShaeWellness technology uses how you look on the outside to understand your health on the inside, and then guides and supports your daily lifestyle and health needs. Challengers can set up their profiles at home or in a private space as preferred. ShaeWellness then crunches over 10,000 data points from your unique avatar to personalize suggestions for sleep, stress, mood, food, activity and overall health. ShaeWellness recommends updating your photo at the start, middle and end of the experience for the most current advice and to track your progress. If preferred, participants can have the option to use a tape measure instead of taking their photo to create their avatar.
What does that mean – how I “look on the outside”?
Everything you can see, measure (except DNA) and test on your body is categorized as part of your phenotype. The photo is used to create your profile. It allows the ShaeWellness Ai technology to measure the body. While this may seem too simple to gain so much insight, there are more than 500 ratios and over 10,000 data points that create a single profile. This includes the calculation of specific genes from the phenotype data. For example, height is related to over 1500 genes, and you can predict height to within 2.5cm based on genes alone. Therefore, the measure of height can translate to the activation of certain genes.
Why am I asked about my sex chromosomes when creating my profile?
This Shae™ app onboarding question is referencing your genetic sex chromosomes of XX for female; and XY for male at birth. This genetic chromosome sequence determines different organ formations and hormonal functions and flows in the human body from a medical and scientific standpoint. This question is not referring to gender identity, which is outside of this scope. Because Shae focuses on the unique genetic and epigenetic makeup of a person, Shae needs to know each user’s biology at birth to provide the most relevant advice to an individual.
If I flag that I am not feeling well / mental health / mood is low, how is this managed?
ShaeWellness tracks data over time and makes recommendations to help improve an individual’s mental health including their risks of stress, anxiety or depression. Should a participant sense they require further or specialized mental health support, they should seek support from their personal health professionals. It is important that you access support through any available avenues, to ensure that your health and wellbeing is supported as best as possible.
Who is ShaeWellness?
ShaeWellness is the only Mental Wellbeing & Physical Health epigenetic corporate solution delivering 360 degrees of lifestyle support at work and at home. Informed by over 15 medical and health sciences, the platform delivers an integrated and user-centric physical, mental, emotional, social, and environmental health profile, delivered via a mobile-friendly app. The medically-endorsed, scientifically-validated, evidenced-based ShaeWellness technology and accompanying educational modules use advanced epigenetic analysis and AI technology to assess and deliver unique user insights and relays customized behaviour change support to each individual user. ShaeWellness technology is currently being used in over 120 countries by medical experts, corporate clients, and corporate wellness practitioners alike.
What is “epigenetics” and how does it relate to health and wellbeing?
Your DNA is your virtually unchanging blueprint. It holds the information on how to create every reaction and response within your body. Genes are small segments of the DNA that code for the specific production of molecules, that when produced, create a change in the body, which is called a change in phenotype. The science of epigenetics is the study of the activity ‘on’ or ‘outside of’ genes. Epigenetics explains the external modifications that lead to an activation or deactivation of a gene. Your phenotype is the end result of all the different gene activations that have occurred during your life. Genes activate based on the environment around the body. The body responds to the environment, i.e. any given change in the environment will create a gene or genes to activate in order to help the body adjust and survive based on the new information it has received about the environment. In short, your behaviours and environment – such as diet, exercise, sleep, where you spend your time, social activity – can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.
What technology do I need to be involved?
You will need a smartphone to access the ShaeWellness app, Shae. The challenge is run through the Shae app. You will be invited to join an on-boarding session and weekly check in calls which you may join from any of your mobile phone, tablet, or computer devices.
Are points awarded to individuals, or each team?
Points are accumulated by each Team member. These contribute to your Team’s final points tally.
What is the time commitment?
The challenge is designed to be tailor-made for every individual, so the ‘time commitment’ is really about incorporating new or adjusted habits and activities into your daily routine, as suggested by your profile. There will be LIVE calls hosted each week which we strongly recommend you attend live to gain the most benefit.
I interact with customers / patients / clients as part of my role. Can I get involved?
Yes you can! Of course, customers and patients are still your priority. Each day in the ShaeWellness app you will see ‘Today’s Routine’ which will guide you with healthy choices and activities to optimise your physical and mental health, unique to you. If you can’t easily access your phone during the day, take the time to check out the Today’s Routine before you start your work day. You will also receive notifications throughout the day from the ShaeWellness app. You can choose to catch up on the Immersion during breaks, or before and after work.
What if I can’t attend the on-boarding session or the weekly sessions?
Sessions will be recorded and links made available to catch up on if it’s not possible to attend at the scheduled time. However, we highly recommend you do attend the live calls to connect with the experts, team mates, and get any questions answered.
What sort of information will I be asked to provide?
ShaeWellness will be asking for certain information in order to create your profile and unique avatar. You will be asked to take two full-length photos of yourself, one front on and one side profile. You will also complete a questionnaire about your family history, health, your lifestyle and environment. This is information provided to ShaeWellness and your company does not have access to this data. In order to be able to participate in the challenge, you will be required to accept the ShaeWellness privacy policy. For more information on how ShaeWellness handles your personal information, you may wish to read its Privacy Policy, available here.
What happens to my pictures?
All photos that are taken on your device and stored locally get deleted when you remove the app from your phone.
How is my data stored?
ShaeWellness operate a highly secure system and are approved by some of the most secure financial and tech companies in the world. Secure storage and data handling processes are applied to all data. All data is stored within secure AWS Cloud Services. As part of Shae’s Information Classification Standard, controls are defined and identity access management procedures are in place to prevent unauthorized access to data as per the International Organization for Standardization (ISO27001) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). ShaeWellness authorized staff are the only authorized persons who will have access to any personal data for the purpose of conducting the challenge and reporting de-identified trends to the client company.
How is my data used by ShaeWellness?
All data gathered by ShaeWellness is used for analyses within Shae’s ecosystem for the purpose of calculating and providing user recommendations and improving the user’s experience. There are no external providers that will have access to any personally identifiable data, external to Shae’s system. Non-personally identifiable information (i.e. data that cannot be traced back to an individual by an external provider) is exchanged with third parties for tracking app usage and activities such as crashes, bugs or click rates however no user data besides a non-identifiable ID is used in communication with third party analytics providers. If a participant chooses to connect their Apple Health or Google Fit app to activate the ‘Wearables’ feature inside the Shae app, then the participant is choosing to share additional information into Shae (this is a one-way authorization, and Shae does not share any data with Apple or Google Fit). In order to be able to participate in the Immersion, you will be required to accept the ShaeWellness privacy policy. For more information on how ShaeWellness handles your personal information, you may wish to read its Privacy Policy, available here.
What information will participants have access to?
Challengers will have access to their own personal profile created inside the app via photo scans, surveys or wearables, as well as insights generated by ShaeWellness. This will be accessible inside each participant’s mobile application. You will learn your HealthTypeTM – one of six psycho-social profiling categories similar to a personality profile, built upon deeper science than just psychology. Participants can learn the HealthType of others in the challenge to apply healthy social and interpersonal insights. Once the challenge is finished, this information will not be available, so make the most of it while you can!
Where can I learn more?
This video explains participant information, challenge outcomes and benefits. This whitepaper highlights benefits and results of the 30-day challenge.
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