Wellbeing Bootcamp

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The Five Domains of Wellbeing and Tradeoffs

Too often, the mental models underlying systems ultimately undermine people’s access to wellbeing. Wellbeing is the set of needs and experiences universally required in combination and balance to weather challenges and have health and hope. There are Five Domains of Wellbeing that we are all driven to seek: connectedness, stability, safety, mattering and relevant resources. To achieve balance among these domains, we have to make tradeoffs.

Additional Resources:

• The Transformational Power of Starting with Wellbeing – A video with a more in-depth explanation about the framework.
• Wellbeing Deeper Dive & Myths and Misconceptions – Definitions and key aspects of the Five Domains of Wellbeing framework and common myths and misconceptions.
• Beyond Trauma-Informed – A slide that illustrates the differences between questions when asked with a wellbeing lens.
• Questions to Consider – A series of questions to support use of this framework in understanding yourself and others.