The Wellness Pledge©
The Wellness Pledge© is a commitment an organisation/institution makes taking actionable measures to ensure wellness is championed in the workplace.
What is wellness?
One definition as can be found on the national institute of health refers to wellness as
‘A holistic integration of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, fueling the body, engaging the mind, and nurturing the spirit’.
Why the need?
If we refer to wellness in the workplace as defined above, the answer should be, why would you not want to implement a wellness pledge?
The challenge
The connotations associated with accountability, cause many to deflect responsibility onto others. Many are afraid of the word accountability, believing if one becomes accountable, they become responsible and thus liable. What inevitably happens is that many organisations talk the talk, but fail to walk it.
The wellness pledge is designed to counteract this and help organisations to respond to threats as/when they arise.
With so much pressures on modern living including cost of living, increase in crime and social unrest, maintaining stability amongst the chaos of life inevitably will encroach professionally, if it hasn’t already personally, not to mention the struggles one has to live with unresolved trauma.
A wellness pledge could be likened to a compass helping your team navigate around the tumultuous trials and situations which will arise.
How is wellness championed in the workplace?
In short, it means imbedding psychological & emotional safety through the framework of an organisation. It involves making wellness a top priority for those within the organisation & those whom it serves whilst eliminating conflict of interest where an organisations objectives or goals may threaten the wellness of those within. If/when wellness becomes endangered, the principles within The Wellness Pledge will always take precedent.
Why Wellness should be a priority?
Because when Wellness is discarded, ultimately your quality of life suffers.
The success of implementing a wellness pledge is within the building and development stage.
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