Classes, Events & Groups

Resolve through Sharing®- Educational Support Group 

This group is intended for individuals who have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, or death of a child less than 1-year-old. Talking about a death can be difficult and the Resolve through Sharing® Grief Support Group gives you an opportunity to share your experience with others who understand. This group provides a safe environment to share feelings such as guilt, anger, fear, or loneliness.

Please join us at the Bereavement Center behind Twohig Flooring America, near the Kwik Trip on the west side of Fond du Lac.

Registration is not required for open groups.

Agnesian HealthCare and the Fond du Lac Family YMCA are partnering with Walk With a Doc to create a safe, walkable community.

The collaborative mission is to encourage healthy physical activity in people of all ages, and reverse the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle in order to improve the health and well-being of the country.

Join providers on Monday through Friday between 8 and 9:30 a.m.; the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month between 5 and 6 p.m.; and Wednesdays between 4 to 5 p.m. to begin your commitment of improved health and well-being.

In addition, Ripon Medical Center providers will be walking at Ripon High School, 850 Tiger Drive, Ripon, the first and third Wednesdays of the month between 6 to 7 p.m.

Step it Up! The Surgeon General of the United States recommends 150 minutes of weekly exercise to:

• Lower your risk of heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, breast and colon cancers, and depression
• Maintain or lose weight
• Boost your energy
• Improve your sleep
• Reduce stress
• Redue your risk of falls
• Delay the onset of cognitive decline and dementia
• Increase sense of well-being and more!

For more information, call (920) 926-4961, visit agnesian.com/walk-with-a-doc or visit walkwithadoc.org.

*Our providers do their best to be at the Forest Mall and Ripon High School at the times indicated. However, due to emergencies or unforeseen circumstance, there might be a time where they are not present.

Join Sigi Columbia-Navis, meditation practitioner and yoga instructor, to achieve balance through:

• Deep breathing
• Relaxation
• Gentle stretches
• Tai Chi moves
• Meditation

Experience relaxation and stress relief through this empowering experienced focused on gratitude.

Attend all four sessions or sign up individually.

Your $5 donation (per session) will help Agnesian HealthCare's Samaritan Health Clinic continue its mission to provide quality heath care to the uninsured/underinsured patients in our community.

Preregistration is appreciated. 

LGBTQ Adult is a free, confidential support group for adults 18 and older who identify with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) community, and/or seeking support surrounding their sexual orientation.

Facilitated by Leann Vice-Reshel, MA, LPC, and Paul Clark, MSE, LPC, Agnesian Health Care Behavioral Health Services, this professional and peer-led group offers support to individuals anywhere in their coming out process, and includes professional education on the following:

• Coming out
• Sexual Orientation
• Gender identity
• Communication with family and friends
• Mindfulness
• Emotion regulation

This group meets the first and third Tuesdays of each month from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

For more information, call Paul Clark, MSE, LPC, at (920) 926-4382 or Leann Vice-Reshel, MA, LPC, at (9920) 926-4428.

Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers CPR teaches healthcare providers the skills of CPR for victims of all ages (including ventilation with a barrier device, a bag-mask device and oxygen), use of an AED and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction in responsive and non-responsive victims. A course completion card is given upon successful completion of a practical and written exam.

Giving blood is easy and takes about an hour. The process includes registering, giving a brief medical history, and having temperature, blood pressure and hemoglobin checked.

Blood that is donated remains local, as the BloodCenter of Wisconsin is the sole supplier of blood to St. Agnes Hospital and Waupun Memorial Hospital, as well as 51 other Wisconsin hospitals. To donate, make an appointment by calling 926-4961 or sign up at www.bcw.edu/agnesian. Walk-ins are also welcome.

Stretching is an important part of older adult's flexibility and will help offset the effects of normal decline in the flexibility of joints, and help individuals remain active and independent.

Join Natasha Novak, fitness instructor, for a stretching program that incorporates breathing exercises and good posture to relax the body and relieve tension.

RMC Wellness Center members attend at no cost, and should register with an RMC Wellness Center associate.

Preregistration is required.

Class dates include Wednesdays, August 22 to September 12.

Agnesian HealthCare and the Fond du Lac Family YMCA are partnering with Walk With a Doc to create a safe, walkable community.

The collaborative mission is to encourage healthy physical activity in people of all ages, and reverse the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle in order to improve the health and well-being of the country.

Join providers on Monday through Friday between 8 and 9:30 a.m.; the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month between 5 and 6 p.m.; and Wednesdays between 4 to 5 p.m. to begin your commitment of improved health and well-being.

In addition, Ripon Medical Center providers will be walking at Ripon High School, 850 Tiger Drive, Ripon, the first and third Wednesdays of the month between 6 to 7 p.m.

Step it Up! The Surgeon General of the United States recommends 150 minutes of weekly exercise to:

• Lower your risk of heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, breast and colon cancers, and depression
• Maintain or lose weight
• Boost your energy
• Improve your sleep
• Reduce stress
• Redue your risk of falls
• Delay the onset of cognitive decline and dementia
• Increase sense of well-being and more!

For more information, call (920) 926-4961, visit agnesian.com/walk-with-a-doc or visit walkwithadoc.org.

*Our providers do their best to be at the Forest Mall and Ripon High School at the times indicated. However, due to emergencies or unforeseen circumstance, there might be a time where they are not present.

The Christian Home & Rehabilitation Center has scheduled its annual pie social and car show from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, August 22.

A freewill offering will benefit the Christian Home & Rehabilitation Center’s new chapel, as well as resident services and programs.

The event will feature homemade pie and ice cream, BBQ sandwiches and beverages.

The Christian Home & Rehabilitation Center, 331 Bly Street in Waupun, supports long-term skilled nursing care, rehabilitation services, memory care and assisted living apartments.

A new, roughly 104,000-square-foot facility along Highway 68 is being constructed as the new home for the Christian Home & Rehabilitation Center. It will be a destination of choice featuring a two-story atrium lobby, chapel, kitchen, gift shop and bistro.

For more information, call the Christian Home at (920) 324-9051.

Open Bereavement Support Group: Anyone experiencing the death of a spouse/partner may attend any of the meetings and different individuals may be there each time.

Please join us at our new location on the west end of Twohig Flooring America near the Kwik Trip on the west side of Fond du Lac.

Registration is not required for open groups.