Wellness (PERMAH) Profile: A Structure for Self-Understanding

We will soon have a team of SSIS community members designing our portrait of a graduate. Their work will help us use the backwards design process to develop a strategic plan to guide our actions to help get our students encompass the profile. We can also use this process in our personal and professional lives.

Before we construct a personal wellness plan (think strategic plan), we can envision what a PERMAH well-being picture of ourselves might look like. Our next step is to work backwards as to the goals and strategies that can get us there. One place to start is with our current personal Wellness (PERMAH) Profile. Pausing and reflecting to document our current status offers a launching point to engage with our personal wellness planning.

When we move into the teaching phase of our wellness program one helpful strategy can be to work with our students to create their learner profile that can include a section on their wellness. The folks at Education Reimagined wrote an extensive blog post on one school that has learner profiles for all students to further their self-understanding.

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