Physical activity, walking and wellbeing
Being physically active is seen as key for our wellbeing. However, many people struggle to fit physical exercise into their busy daily schedules and our environments are sometimes not that …
Course: Social Wellbeing
Wellbeing at work
A veritable wellbeing industry has emerged in recent decades. However, it’s not only important for businesses to try and ‘sell’ wellbeing to their customers, but also look after the wellbeing …
Introduction to Week 2
By the end of this week you should have improved your ability to apply wellbeing frameworks to real-life situations.
The ‘social economy’
Background The radical potential of a wellbeing lens is nowhere clearer than in the domain of so-called ‘economics’. What we call ‘the economy’ is entirely a socio-cultural construct, a way …
Social wellbeing and aspirational social planning
Although most of us have no trouble identifying components or domains of personal wellbeing (bodily health, psychological health, etc), it is less easy to link the concept of wellbeing with …
Nudge planning
Background: bad lifestyle habits, rationality, and ‘choice architecture’ One of the most compelling reasons for promoting more explicit conversations about planning for wellbeing is that there is now a tide …
Excellence or enjoyment?
Background Most people’s idea of living well involves some degree of effort, activity, and dynamism over time. That is, we don’t imagine a good life as one of effortless, flat …
What do mission statements tell us about wellbeing priorities?
Mission, or purpose, matters for wellbeing in two main ways: wellbeing is part of our purposes having a sense of purposefulness is an important part of wellbeing. It is widely …
Let’s Talk About Wellbeing
It is possible to deny that wellbeing matters, but this is extremely rare and frankly implausible. It is a lot more plausible, and a lot more common though still fairly …
Viewing Life Through a Wellbeing Lens
You know there’s a need for a proper ‘wellbeing’ conversation when… Your employer announces a ‘wellbeing’ strategy … via the ‘human resources’ department. Strategy documents refer to you – …
Introduction to Week 1
In this video, Educator Elke Heins introduces Week 1, the purpose of which is to strengthen awareness of the rise of interest in explicit discussion of wellbeing worldwide, in many …
International progress in measuring wellbeing
In this video, we talk to Enrico Giovannini, professor of economic statistics at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, to look further into some of the issues around measuring wellbeing …
Wellbeing Indices – case study of the Oxfam Humankind Index
We’ve already heard about a number of initiatives at international and national level that try to measure a country’s performance in a more holistic way rather than by looking at …
Going beyond GDP
In this video, we start exploring why GDP effectively became an important yardstick of a country’s performance, and what some of the flaws are when equating economic growth with wellbeing. …
