How to create change

The Five Domains of Wellbeing and Tradeoffs

To shift mental models, we need to understand how we’re more alike than different, how our circumstances are varied, how life is messy and more. That requires that we acknowledge how each and every person is programmed to meet needs for wellbeing and then shift our practices, policies and structures accordingly.

Additional Resources:

• The transformational power of starting with wellbeing – A video with a more in-depth explanation about the framework.
• Five Domains of Wellbeing PDF – Definitions and key aspects of the framework in a downloadable PDF.
• Wellbeing Wheel – An exercise to support a deeper understanding of how this framework plays out in your life.
• Questions to consider – A series of questions to support use of this framework in understanding yourself and others.
• Five Domains of Wellbeing clue words – When listening to others speak, there are “clues” to which domains people are referring to.
• Beyond trauma informed – A slide that illustrates the differences between questions when asked with a wellbeing lens.