An activity to support personal reflection and deeper understanding of a specific experience.
Benefits
The wellness spin gives a chance to perceive a given situation from the “wellness perspective”, or better said from the perspective of all wellness dimensions. It gives a great chance to experience the holistic aspect of a problem or situation.
Example
At the end of one residential training, we created a station with twelve wellness dimensions in a circle. The participants were invited to step into the centre of the circle with a specific question/experience/stressor. While facing one dimension after another, they could reflect on questions :
1) How XX influences my “breathing”?
2) How can my “breathing” influence XX?
Like this, they visit all twelve wellness topics or can stay longer with the few that call their attention and give them deeper answers.
Variations
Reduced
Take a guided Wellness Inventory, where a facilitator reads the questions and times thirty seconds for writing down the very first thoughts that run through participants’ minds.
Extended
The group can do a wellness spin about a shared situation or topic and brainstorm their answers together.
Online
Self-assessment can be done individually online or pen/paper.
Possible traps
When offered without a guide, Wellness Inventory is quite an intuitive process and as such requires more-than-beginner participants with a deeper knowledge of the wellness topics and their own introspection. This can be added by a facilitator.
Side-effects may include sweating, euphoria and general awesomeness.
Additional resources
The Six Dimensions of Wellness Model – handout by the National Wellness Institute
The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.