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Promoting Wellbeing in a World of Deep Change

Wellbeing is both deeply personal and profoundly political. COVID-19 created the space to take advantage of a global slowing down to reclaim values that support justice, equity, and compassion and this primer provides a framing for wellbeing to support such a paradigmatic shift.

We invite you to consider that wellbeing is much more than just health and happiness, it is a political approach and practice enacted as a collective, that includes structural elements of how people cope, thrive and build resilience. In order to reclaim the politics of wellbeing we need to name and resist the commercialisation of wellbeing and the normalising of ideologies of wellbeing that ignore the unequal rights and power relationships inherent in the languaging and responses to current realities.