What you’ll learn

We’ll start with an exploration of wellbeing, looking at the contribution of psychological, physical and social wellbeing to our experience of work and life more broadly. We’ll explore how they can influence each other and how we can make simple changes to our priorities, our behaviour and our environment to get the wellbeing outcomes that are important to us.

You’ll spend some time identifying why you want to make changes and how these link with what’s important to you in life: your values. Change is much easier when it’s authentic and based on your priorities. Not when it’s the result of social pressure or simply jumping on another ‘wellness bandwagon’.

We’ll introduce the concept of habits and how to cultivate new, healthy habits as part of your daily routines. This helps you take small steps in the direction of your valued goals, avoiding disruptive reinvention or bursts of enthusiasm followed by cynicism and self-criticism.

In this module, you’ll learn how to be show up in the present moment, with the best and most flexible version of yourself. Present moment awareness allows us to notice what’s going on inside of us and around us, and to use this information to act intentionally. You’ll minimise the time you spend in unhelpful mental time-travel to an anxious future or a disappointing past. You’ll learn how to bring your focus to where it’s most important to you at any moment.

We’ll also explore identity and self-concept, which are key to making personal changes. You’ll learn how to cultivate a more flexible view of yourself, a more flexible and accommodating self-concept. Rather than buying in to self-limiting beliefs, or over-simplified views of yourself and your wellbeing, you’ll begin to see these as simple stories you don’t need to engage with.

When we learn to notice what’s going on inside of us, we can find ourselves wrestling with thoughts and emotions. We can end up paying them more attention than they deserve. As a result we can see them as rules to be followed or facts to be believed, when all they really are is bits of mental content. You’ll learn how to see thoughts as thoughts and avoid getting caught up with internal struggle.

You’ll also learn how to view psychological discomfort differently. Not as something to avoided, minimised or suppressed, but rather something that’s along for the ride as we do meaningful things in life.

These skills free up your energy and attention to invest in the kind of activities that are really meaningful and important to you.

In the final module of this course, we’ll focus on values and how to bring them to life in simple ways. Your values are a summary of what’s really important to you, and they enable you to get a sense of meaning, purpose and connection with what matters. You’ll clarify your most important values and practice putting them into action in simple ways each day.

Rather than some kind of personal reinvention, you’ll learn how subtle ‘course adjustments’ can make all the difference over time. You’ll learn about the benefits of tracking your habits, emphasising consistency over quick wins, and using values to navigate any challenges and setbacks you face along the way.