SOA Fun Days

This year has been so challenging for so many people on so many levels. What have you consciously done this year to improve your resilience and your ability to adapt to change?

It's been rough. I think personally, I lost my grandmother, which was very, very painful to go through. And I know that a lot of people have lost loved ones and relatives, and part of me wanted to just keep going and keep working and bury myself in SOA, which I always do. I came to realize that we all need that mental health day, we all need just a day where we're focused on ourselves or we're going out to the beach talking to friends, catching up. I didn't make that a priority for me in the past before COVID, and so now at SOA we have SOA fun days, where people just have the day off and they can do whatever they want to support their mental health, and that has gone a very long way in having people become reenergized and recommitted to the organization.