Introducing the wellbeing lens

This short film introduces the idea that wellbeing is better understood as a kind of ‘lens’ that influences how we perceive the world around us, and hence shapes how we think and talk about our activities, our objectives, and the outcomes of our work.

We group the differences that a wellbeing lens can make into three areas::

• positivity (exploring, appreciating, and learning from successes and enjoyments, and planning aspirationally),

• empathy (considering, listening to, respecting, and responding other people’s subjective experience of the matters at hand), and

• integration (considering how wellbeing is derived from interactive processes, and looking at how the various parts of people’s lives ‘fit’ together or ‘harmonize’ through the life course).

The following three steps explore each of these three aspects of the wellbeing lens in more detail.