Foundations of Wellbeing is an introductory workplace wellbeing course designed to help participants understand wellbeing as more than a checklist of habits, constant positivity, or individual responsibility alone. Across the course, participants explore why wellbeing matters at work, how stress and high-functioning struggle can show up beneath outward performance, and how to define wellbeing in a practical, contextual way.
The course reframes wellbeing as the interaction between emotional, mental, physical, social, and purpose-based factors. It challenges common misconceptions, including the idea that wellbeing means being happy all the time, having no stress, achieving perfect balance, or managing everything independently. Instead, wellbeing is presented as the capacity to navigate stress, regulate emotions, recover effectively, adapt to change, and recognise where support or scaffolding may be needed.
Participants are also introduced to practical wellbeing frameworks, including attention monitoring and non-judgmental acceptance, as well as the PERMAH framework: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment, and Health. Rather than encouraging people to “do more,” the course supports participants to build insight, identify patterns that may no longer serve them, and choose one meaningful leverage point for change. The overall message is: start where you are, adjust what matters, and repeat.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand what wellbeing is — and what it is not
Participants will be able to describe wellbeing as a dynamic interaction between emotional, mental, physical, social, and purpose-based factors, and distinguish it from common misconceptions such as constant happiness, perfect balance, or the complete absence of stress.
2. Recognise personal and workplace factors that influence wellbeing
Participants will be able to reflect on their own baseline, energy and demand levels, internal state, external expectations, role requirements, and systemic influences to better understand how wellbeing is shaped in real-life work and life contexts.
3. Apply simple wellbeing frameworks to identify practical next steps
Participants will be able to use frameworks such as PERMAH and attention monitoring with non-judgemental acceptance to assess key areas of wellbeing, identify a meaningful leverage point, and choose one achievable shift to support regenerative wellbeing.
Presenter:
Jess Jasch is the founder of J-Leigh, providing wellbeing consulting, leadership coaching, and Fractional Chief Wellbeing Officer services to clients across industries and sectors, from Defence to corporate since 2016. Jess has a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Melbourne, and is also a published author, with her first book ‘Leaders Who Thrive’ coming out in 2026.
