1. Connection
- Improve Communication with People
— Flatmates
— Lectures
— Family
— Refugees
— Couples
— Inter-cultural connections (Exchanges)
- Reconnect
— Friends
— Family
— Culture (Beliefs, Values, Laws, Politics, History)
- Loneliness
- Isolation
- Icebreakers for introverts
- Peer support
— Young adults/Students
— Colleagues
2. People/Audience
- PTSD
- Elderly, Pensioners
- SPCA, Animal welfare
- Students
- Parents and Families
- Key and high demand jobs/social roles
- Health issues
- Living alone
- Mental health issues (depression, anxiety, introversion, creative block)
- Eating disorders
- Bereavement
- Support for social offenders (Empathy for criminals, bullies, etc)
3. Lifestyle
- Stress Management
- Financial issues
- Workplace relationships
— Employer & Employee
— Workload & Social life
— Studying stress
- Motivation
— Planning, Goals and dreams
— Ambition
— Inspiration
— Motivation
4. Health
- Activity
- Excitement/Boredom
- Exercise
- Recreational activities
- Lack of routine (Lack of spontaneity)
- Sleep (Insomnia)
5. Nutrition
- Eating on a budget
- Stress eating
- Balanced diet
6. Joy!
- Self indulgence
— Time for yourself
— Time for others (Giving)
- Body confidence
— Fitness
- Life balance
- Self empowerment
7. Travel
8. Creativity
- Aesthetics (and Psychology)
- Creative or Artistic expression
- Changing environments or perspective
- Technology
- Activity (Creating or changing routines)
- Facing your fears: getting out of your comfort zone
- Trying new things
Personal Focus:
Nutrition
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/nutrition-wellbeing
The makings of a ‘healthy diet’: What are the principal constituents of food? Which components of your diet can promote wellbeing and reduce the risk of diseases?
Why do we eat what we eat? What are the ‘drivers’ that influence our food choices? How do we make sense of available nutrition information?
Food and disease: Can you really eat your way to health?
Nutrition fads, myths and the plain truth: Is there such a thing as a ‘miracle’ diet? Do ‘superfoods’ exist? Or are our genes to be blamed for our current nutritional habits?
http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/health/diet-nutrition
Large portion sizes, processed foods, refined carbohydrates, and saturated fats—these are the deadly components of the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.), which has caused obesity rates to skyrocket in both adults and children.
Making healthy food choices and practicing mindful eating can help you provide your body with the nutrients it needs to achieve optimum wellbeing and lower your risk for diseases like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, respiratory problems, and certain cancers.
It’s also important to remember that nourishing yourself engages every aspect of your being—physical, social, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Nutrition involves our relationships with family, friends, community, the environment, and the world.
https://parentspeak.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/express-yourself-it-is-important-for-your-well-being/
Each one of us needs to find a way to express himself. Expressing ourselves has a lot to do with our overall well being.
Pent up feelings and unexpressed thoughts start becoming blockages in the path of our progress as well as our mental peace. When we are not able to express ourselves, we feel suffocated .We need to find ways in which we can express ourselves in a meaningful and positive manner. Outlet is very much required for our feelings and thoughts. Once we express ourselves we are at peace with ourselves and we feel very light within .This opens path for optimum use of our capabilities.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-creative-life-and-well-being/
The Creative Life is full of new possibilities, discoveries, exploration, experimentation, self-expression, and invention. It's a habit, a way of being, a style of existing. But is the Creative Life full of well-being?
Depends on how you define well-being. In recent years, psychologists have taken a deeper look at well-being. The traditional approach to well-being focuses on hedonic pleasures and positive emotions. However, while positive emotions often accompany happiness, the mere experience of positive emotions is not necessarily an indicator of happiness, and the presence of negative emotions doesn't necessarily decrease one's well-being. This deeper approach to well-being, often described as "eudaimonic well-being", focuses on living life in a full and deeply satisfying way.
Sleep More
http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/health/sleep
We can’t live without it, and we spend nearly a third of our entire lives doing it—yet few of us pay attention to the phenomenon of sleep or recognize its profound effect on our personal health and wellbeing. Our fast-paced, “24/7” culture prioritizes being awake and productive, pushing us to accomplish as much as we can. When things get busy and we need to make cutbacks in our lives, sleep is often the first thing to go. Perhaps we even think of ourselves as “lazy” for feeling tired or needing to get a full night’s rest.
But research is showing more and more that healthy sleep is a vital component of a flourishing life. In fact, sleep is as essential as food, and creating healthy sleeping patterns is just as important as following a nutritious, vitamin-rich diet. Sleep deprivation, like starvation, can have damaging consequences to health and wellbeing.
On a personal level, inadequate sleep can cause health problems, interfere with relationships, and affect mood. On a larger scale, poor sleep is a public health risk, increasing accident rates and decreasing productivity, which has an enormous financial impact on governments, organizations, and healthcare systems.
Learning to prioritize sleep in your life, create healthy sleeping patterns, and effectively manage sleep-related disorders can have a powerful effect on your overall wellbeing as well as the community, society, and culture within which you live and work.
Time Management - Take a Break
Yoga
This is more of a solution idea than a issue - maybe overwork is the issue?
http://theconversation.com/no-its-not-you-why-wellness-isnt-the-answer-to-overwork-42124
How much work there is, how they never seem to be able to get it all done, how many hours they spend at work, how tired they are all the time and how fearful they are about losing their jobs.
Women in particular come in suffering the effects of overwork, losing out financially in the longer hours marathon, or perhaps more frighteningly, sacrificing their work to help manage a male partner’s crazy schedule. And yet they persist in locating the problem internally. Is there something else they can do, they wonder, to manage it all better? Maybe there’s something wrong with them; they just can’t seem to live and work at the same time.
We’re working longer hours than ever before, and as our employment conditions continue to worsen, they’re simply repackaged into a new version of normal in an effort to make the truly pathological state of many of our workplaces appear acceptable. And despite the fact that the very best evidence we have about the causes of work stress and burnout point to factors present in the workplace rather than in us, the stress reduction industry and the helping professions’ focus on individual self-care strategies is at an all-time high.
Too busy to be well.
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