Wellbeing is a 'trendy term' nowadays; something that organisations know they must support in their colleagues; something top of the agenda in our schools and something we all know matters in our own lives, yet something rarely given space, time or validity in our modern culture of productivity.
In this week's podcast, we dive headfirst into the truly inconvenient inconvenience of wellbeing, looking at what it means for a 'being' to 'be well' in our modern world. We think about how wellbeing is both a culture and a way of life, exploring some of the blocks and opportunities to enabling wellbeing to flourish in our lives and learning communities. We dive into the complexities of how wellbeing is being co-opted and turned into a commodity, ironically sold back to us in neat packages of wellness whilst being slowly eroded from our daily lives. For when wellbeing is seen as an addon, all it can ever do is soothe the symptoms, rather than treat the causes of our 'unwell' state of being. But what needs to shift to start to allow our 'beings' to be more well in our modern world?
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