Wellbeing: a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous. Dictionary.com
Our site provides a unique range of tools and resources to help individuals and organisations maintain and enhance their wellbeing:
Questionnaires - help you explore different aspects of your wellbeing Results - reveal how your scores compare Suggestions - give you ideas for things you can do that have worked well for others Ratings - so you can let us know which ones work best for you Engines - which learn from your feedback and improve the suggestions you get
Our methods and approach draw on some of the latest research from the field of positive psychology:
Questionnaires (free for personal use).
The Activity Questionnaire is quick and easy and finds leisure activities to match your aims and interests:
The Wellbeing Questionnaire explores your wellbeing in 7 major Life Domains and provides a wider range of suggestions.
The results reveal how your wellbeing levels compare, one area of your life with another and to other people's.
Personalised suggestions give you ideas for activities of all sorts that have had positive effects on the wellbeing of people with scores like yours, ranging from aromatherapy and abseiling to voice coaching and volunteering.
By clicking on the links to the suggested activities you can find out more about them and rate them yourself, which helps improve the quality of the suggestions you get:
Our engines automatically refresh your results and suggestions as more activities and ratings are added, so you don't have to do the questionnaires again to get the latest information.
You can access the questionnaires and suggestions via the Free Login
We hope you enjoyed this introduction and the rest of the site
PsyBlog: Sustainable Happiness: Why it's all about the day to day.
This article describes some of the research into the relationship between activities and wellbeing, including why the activities we choose have around four times more effect on our wellbeing than the situations we're in.
Daniel Gilbert: Stumbling On Happiness
Gilbert's book explores why we sometimes make rather poor decisions about our own wellbeing, including our tendency to 'miswant' and make inaccurate predictions about what will and won't make us happy.
Interests & Hobbies --> Pets & Animals written by bgeorge , August 25, 2008