Healthy University and Beyond
State of Wellbeing is a holistic well-being podcast to support the SDSU campus community as we strive to be a growing, high-performing, and healthy university.
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Looking to add wellbeing content to your class or meeting? University Wellbeing offers interactive presentations covering a variety of wellbeing topics to support students and campus communities. Faculty are welcome to request a presentation as planned class coverage during an absence, no need to cancel class. Complete the Presentation Request Form to get started.
We define well-being as an optimal and dynamic state that allows people to achieve their full potential.
Use our Dimensions of Wellness Self-Assessment to evaluate where you are across each dimension of wellness. Identify the areas where you may want to invest more time and energy, as well as the areas where you are already thriving.
Definitions
- Environmental: Recognize the role that one plays in preserving, protecting and improving the environment. Environmental wellness includes the sense of safety, comfort and connection with the physical surroundings.
- Emotional: The ability to understand your own feelings, accept your limitations, achieve emotional stability and become comfortable with your emotions.
- Financial: The ability to meet current and ongoing financial obligations, develop positive financial behaviors to mitigate stress and prioritize future financial security.
- Digital: The ability to recognize and manage the influence of digital technologies on one's overall well-being. Digital wellness includes creating sustainable habits for technology use in one's daily life.
- Social: The willingness to interact with others, including those who have different backgrounds, perspectives and opinions. Social wellness includes the ability to maintain healthy relationships by supporting, connecting with and understanding others.
- Physical: A healthy body maintained by good nutrition, regular exercise, quality sleep and the avoidance of harmful habits. Physical wellness includes the ability to make informed and responsible decisions about health and seek medical care for treatment and prevention.
- Mindful: The sense that life is meaningful and has a purpose and that the individual is part of something larger than oneself. Mindful wellness includes ethics, values and morals that guide us and give positive meaning and direction to life.
- Occupational: Emphasizes the importance of finding meaningful and rewarding work that empowers a well-balanced personal life. Occupational wellness includes valuing lifelong learning, developing critical thinking skills and seeking to learn and develop new skills.
Source: NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation, NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and ACHA – American College Health Association (November 2020). Interassociation definition of well-being. Retrieved from .
