Construct a wellness wheel and indicators
for personal and collective wellbeing
Purpose:
Co-creating a community vision of personal and collective wellbeing is necessary for healthy individuals to take relevant, impactful, and sustainable civic action in local and global communities.
Student Impact Profile:
Pursue personal & collective holistic wellness
Enduring Understanding:
Understanding personal and collective wellbeing helps illuminate pathways for applied civic engagement and sustainable actions for the self and others.
Essential Questions:
Investigate & Create: How might I investigate other models of personal and collective wellbeing to collaboratively construct a wellbeing wheel with indicators that applies to our own community?
Evaluate & Identify: How might I use our wellbeing wheel design to identify community strengths and challenges which could potentially launch community impact projects?
Predict & Justify: Why is taking action on personal and collective well-being necessary for greater sustainability in the community?
Core Activities:
Investigate and analyze various models for wellbeing found in an effective internet search or from teacher provided models.
Co-design a community vision of personal and collective wellbeing, ideally in the format of a wellness wheel with sets of indicators.
Share and justify the chosen elements of each design.
Using the wheels, evaluate strengths and challenges in the community to identify the most essential community wellbeing needs that could lead to a personal or communal action project.
Flexible Steps
Apply these ideas for context while scaffolding and differentiating for age, language proficiency, readiness, independence, learning needs, content connections, and so on.
Introduce the idea of personal and collective wellbeing using the airplane metaphor in which we must put on our own oxygen mask before we can assist others. If we as leaders are not well ourselves, then how can we best impact the sustainability and collective well-being of the greater community?
Ask students to explore and analyze other wellbeing models by researching definitions, defining the terms, and potentially researching meanings, examples, and practical applications.
In small groups, spark students to create their own wellbeing wheels, complete with dimensions and indicators or descriptors. During the work, send some students as ambassadors or spies to other teams to gather ideas (pictures work well) that might enhance their own thinking and model when they return to their team and discuss, revise, and edit.
With another team, through mini-presentations, students share in explaining the team’s rationale for some of their key dimensions and indicators. Use a “Yes and…” protocol for students to receive peer feedback from the other team.
Have students sort dimensions and indicators into community strengths and weaknesses using examples. Challenge students to choose three critical challenges they would most like to solve and why. Have them “sides debate” on which challenges deserve most immediate and urgent action.
Collect the wellbeing wheels and the identified urgent challenges for launching potential project ideas.