1. WELLNESS LESSON and PROJECT

2. WHAT IS WELLNESS? Active Process Becoming Aware Making Choices
Defining Success
Maximizing Individual Potential
Fostering Healthy Relationships & Connections
-Family, Friends, Community, Global
Preventive and Healing Approach to Illness

3. WELLNESS IS:
A choice - a decision you make to move toward optimal health
A way of life - a lifestyle you design to achieve your highest potential for well-being
A process - a developing awareness that there is no end point, but that health and happiness are possible in each moment here and now
An efficient channeling of energy - energy received from the environment, transformed within you, and sent on to affect the world outside
The integration of body, mind, and spirit - the appreciation that everything you do, and think, and feel, and believe has an impact on your state of health
The loving acceptance of yourself

4. Brainstorm the elements of wellness…

6. PHYSICAL Fitness Play Good Nutrition Safety
Self-Care, Appropriate Use of the Medical System
Stress Management
Free from Addictions

8. INTELLECTUAL Knowledge Sharing knowledge Creative, stimulating mental
activities
Utilize resources available

10. CAREER/OCCUPATIONAL/VOLUNTEER
Positive attitude towards job
(e.g. student in school)
Personal satisfaction and enrichment in
one’s life
Encompasses your values
Volunteerism

12. EMOTIONAL Awareness, acceptance and healthy
expression of a wide range of feelings
Feeling positive and enthusiastic about
oneself and life
Maintains satisfying and healthy relationships
with others
Empathy

14. SPIRITUAL Inner peace Seeking meaning and purpose in human existence
Development of deep appreciation for
the depth and expanse of life and
natural forces that exist in the universe
Incorporates ethics and values
Respects others

15. Adapted from Bill Hettler, Six dimensions of Wellness, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

16. SOCIAL/ENVIRONMENTAL
Nurtures harmony with Family and Friends
Contributes to the common welfare on one’s
community
Pursues harmony and peace within the world
Respects and preserves the environment
Demonstrates a commitment to conservation
of natural resources

17. Reflect on these elements of wellness…
as they relate to your personal wellness.
Adapted from Bill Hettler, Six dimensions of Wellness, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

18. WELLNESS
Is a multi-dimensional approach to well-being that emphasizes individual responsibility.
It is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices towards a healthier and more fulfilling life.

19. PRINCIPLES: Self-Responsibility Choices Integration (Inter-related)
Balance
Dynamic
Synergy
(The WHOLE is greater than the sum of the parts)

20. YOUR PROJECT… Self-Expression
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