Five Ways to Well-being
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The Five Ways to Well-being are a set of evidence-based actions which promote people’s wellbeing. They are: Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Keep Learning and Give. These activities are simple things individuals can do in their everyday lives.
The Five Ways to Well-being were developed by nef from evidence
gathered in the UK government’s Foresight Project on Mental Capital and
Wellbeing. The Project, published in 2008, drew on state-of-the-art
research about mental capital and mental wellbeing through life. It
asked nef to develop the Five Ways to Wellbeing to communicate its key
findings.
The Five Ways have been used by health organisations, schools and
community projects across the UK and around the world to help people
take action to improve their wellbeing. They’ve been used in lots of
different ways, for example to get people to start thinking about
well-being, to develop organisational strategy, to measure impact, to
assess need, for staff development, and to help people to incorporate
more well-being-promoting activities into their lives.
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