FRAMEWORK
Well-being is the state of being healthy, happy, or successful. Your health might play a role in your overall happiness level or your ability to succeed, but health isn’t the overarching factor in your well-being. In fact, well-being considers the entirety of an individual, including their body and mind.
The Well-Being Task Force for the University of Arizona has defined well-being as developing the following components: Learning, Connection, Environmental, Financial, Body, Mind, and Purpose. These components promote positive feelings in an individual’s journey in meeting their full potential in the world.
We will help develop learning, through:
Creating an environment that encourages explorations across a lifespan
Providing opportunities for intellectual growth, scholarship, and apprenticeship
Fostering growth through self-reflection
Embracing new and creative ideas to solve complex problems
Skill development for personal enhancement
We will develop connection, through:
Cultivating an environment that encourages explorations across a lifespan
Finding opportunities to make meaningful connections with others
Treating others with respect and civility
Creating positive relationships and social support networks
We will develop environmental well-being, through:
Acknowledging and appreciating the land the University was founded upon
Practicing your own and celebrating others’ experiences, beliefs, traditions, and values
Creating spaces that promote thriving where the UA Community live, works, and plays
Utilizing and managing resources in an efficient and responsible manner
Providing access to clean air, water, nutritious food, adequate shelter, and safety
We will develop financial well-being, through:
Providing access to basic needs
Creating a feeling of being in control of daily and monthly finances
Understanding both a short-term and long-term perspective regarding personal finances
Establishing a positive relationship with one’s financial health
We will help develop body, through:
Pursuing a balanced life of healthy nutrition, regular physical activity, and adequate sleep
Seeking out preventative care and preventing disease
Acknowledging what the body needs to thrive
Appreciating what the body can do throughout the lifespan
We will help develop mind, through:
Responding to stressful situations and managing stress in healthy ways
Recognizing and adapting various situational demands that enable and promote values driven behavior
Increasing self-awareness through self-reflection
Building awareness about the importance of mental health
We will help develop purpose, through:
Exploring personal values through ongoing discovery and reflection
Pursuing and engaging in behaviors that align with one’s values, beliefs, and ethics
Discovering interests, motivations, and identities
Striving for meaning in life