Workshops 2025
7 Dimensions of Emotional Well-being
Ngā ahunga e 7 o te oranga hinengaro
Facilitator: Dr Jean Annan
Positively Psychology offers a series of workshops for education and health practitioners seeking to build children’s emotional well-being.
Children’s emotions are now recognised as central to teaching and learning. Neuropsychology research has repeatedly demonstrated the interaction of children’s emotions with learning and social development through early learning and school years. We now know that young people’s social, psychological and academic experiences at school have life-long effects on physical health, mental health, life satisfaction and even longevity.
Participants in the workshops are introduced to the 7 Dimensions framework, comprising seven critical aspects of emotional well-being. This evidence-based, applied framework generates contextual, collaborative, culturally relevant and appreciative understandings of well-being that lead to positively-focused solutions.
Workshop 1: Introduction to the 7 Dimensions of Well-being. One day
Introduction to:
· The 7 Dimensions of emotional well-being framework
· Interactions impacting children’s social and emotional experience
· The application of the framework in professional practice.
Workshop 2: The 7 Dimensions and professional practice. One day
Participants consider how the 7 Dimensions framework can inform:
· The development of shared understandings of purpose
· The iterative process of gathering information
· Proactive systemic support in educational settings and responsive contextualised support for young people.
Workshop 3: Facilitation of mutual understandings and shared direction. Half day
Participants learn about and discuss:
· Collaborative sense-making and the 7 Dimensions of Emotional well-being
· Facilitating collaborative sense-making and focused support for children in their social and cultural learning environments.