WELLBEING UNIVERSITY

Client: Prestigious Washington DC University

Dates: April 2023

Departments: Visioning, Disruptions

The Invitation

We were invited by the President’s office to design and facilitate a workshop series for their working group tasked with transforming the University into a wellbeing university for all. The workshop series was intended to expand the context and possibilities of the multi-faceted aspects of wellbeing to identify initiatives to implement across the university.

Context

The working group was tasked by the President’s office to transform the University into a wellbeing university for all. They had been working on this initiative before our involvement and brought us in to help deepen the group’s understanding of wellbeing and generate visions and pathways to achieve it.

SOLUTIONS

We structured the workshops around Three Horizons to identify the limitations and harms of certain definitions of wellbeing and surface alternative wellbeing paradigms. This resulted in a wellbeing portrait of the university that housed participants’ future visions and possible pathways to get there.