Wellbeing bank activity
This activity encourages you to create a balance sheet, using your ‘welldoing’ lists from your reflective activity; write down what deposits you are contributing to your wellbeing bank, and what is withdrawing.
Ensure you are thinking holistically about your life; your work environment, your professional self, your home life, friends and significant others.
Open your workbook to section 6
Read through each of the sentence starters and complete the statements with your own thoughts
Allow yourself the opportunity to freely express your inner thoughts and feelings
Part A: Deposits
Let’s now consider your ‘deposits’, using the examples you came up with in the previous exercise, the PERMA + framework. Look through your lists and write them in your deposit column.
In order to consider the impact of each of the identified ‘welldoing’ activities, please give each a value based on how much of a positive impact the activity has, considering how energised you feel, connected, refuelled, etc.
Please note: The values you assign to each activity is entirely up to you, there is no right or wrong. Start by giving the activity that rewards you with the greatest outcome for your own health and wellbeing the highest value and grade the other activities accordingly, with regards to relative values.
Once you have your positive balance, we need to consider the withdrawals.
Part B: Withdrawals
Similarly, begin considering what is making regular ‘withdrawals’ in your wellbeing bank. List those in the far-left hand column and assign a value to each, respective of the level of impact each of these are having on your health and sense of wellbeing.
These curve balls can be one off events or events that impact you more frequently. Regardless, it is up to you to determine the size of the withdrawal from your wellbeing bank as you attempt to overcome the collateral cognitive, physical or emotional debris from the impact. More frequently occurring events are likely to have a greater impact.
Please note: Reflecting on what is currently ‘not going so well’ for our own lives can be incredibly confronting. A mild amount of discomfort or distress is normal throughout this activity but in the event you are feeling overwhelmed or are triggered, please cease the activity and seek formal support through a colleague, your organisation’s Employee Assistance Program, or external professional to look after yourself.
Why we want to know our ‘wellbeing bank’ balance.
Deposits and resilience
The difference between your deposits and withdrawals is a reflection of your resilience. It is important to consider ways you can increase the deposits, improving your resilience and preparing you for future ‘curve balls’ you may need to face.
A health wellbeing balance will help you now and into the future.
If you haven’t downloaded the workbook yet, you can access it here:
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