Recipes for Wellbeing

Recipes for Wellbeing works towards shifting the culture of changemaking to include a focus on holistic wellbeing to enable anyone to contribute more effectively to creating positive change in the world. We interpret wellbeing both as a catalyst for positive change in the world, and as the positive change in the world itself. We aim for changemakers to both experience wellbeing for themselves, and to spread wellbeing to their teams, societies, and to the whole world. WHAT IS WELLBEING? Recipes for Wellbeing believes that focusing on wellbeing opens up a path towards achieving individual and collective flourishing – the ultimate goal of changemaking. Wellbeing is more than a good state of health in the absence of problems. It is a positive state of flourishing that means thriving and living to the fullest whilst creating positive impact in the world. Wellbeing requires positive conditions in internal and external environments. Among external factors is the basic need to feel safe and secure – like health, housing, income, democratic society, and healthy environments. Internal factors meanwhile highlight our need to feel satisfied and valued, as well as connected and cared for. This includes how we relate to ourselves; how we connect to others; and how we engage with the wider world. We focus on internal factors as a leverage to positively impact external factors.