Wellbeing courses
To know the world, first know yourself. To change the world, first change yourself. ―Anonymous
👥 Serves: 1 person
🎚 Difficulty: Medium
⏳ Total time: Depends on the course
🥣 Ingredients: Access to the Internet
💪 Nutritional values: Wellbeing, Wholebeing, Happiness, Joy, Contentment
Wellbeing courses
📝 Description
Online courses on wellbeing.
As more and more people become interested in cultivating their wellbeing, we have thought of putting together a list of online courses on the topic of wellbeing, varying from social wellbeing to digital wellbeing. Most courses are freely accessible and self-directed, but they might not be running at all times so we invite you to check the website links provided for more information.
💡 Courses
Google – Intro to digital wellbeing
Learn how to develop and maintain healthy tech habits. Technology plays a big part in most people’s lives these days, but how do you make sure it actually improves your life rather than distracts from it? In this module, you’ll discover why a healthy relationship with technology is so important, and how you can become more aware of your own online usage. You’ll also learn about the different tools you can use to help you develop and maintain healthy tech habits.
🎚 Difficulty: Easy
⏳ Total time: 1 hour
💰 Cost: Free
🔗 Link: Here
Coursera – The Science of Wellbeing
In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.
🎚 Difficulty: Easy
⏳ Total time: 20 hours
💰 Cost: Free
🔗 Link: Here
Coursera – Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Wellbeing
You are encouraged to take the first four courses of the Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization before starting this course and completing the Specialization Project. This course, taught by Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman brings all the key concepts from the first four courses to practice as you develop and test a new positive intervention for an audience of your choice. You identify opportunities in your daily life to increase the wellbeing by using knowledge you developed in the first four courses of the Specialization. In this final project, you evaluate the efficacy of a positive intervention based on subjective and objective measures. Then, you compare how empirical and non-empirically-based positive interventions can be applied to influence a person’s wellbeing. Lastly, you reflect on how the fundamental elements of research methods are important in the everyday application of positive psychology.
🎚 Difficulty: Medium
⏳ Total time: 12 hours
💰 Cost: Free
🔗 Link: Here
Future Learn – Social Wellbeing
Find out how measuring and promoting wellbeing can make people, organisations and society more focused, considerate and effective. Since the financial crisis, there has been an increased interest in moving away from GDP and wealth as measures of national and individual performance. Instead, more explicit attention is being paid to wellbeing around the world, and how we can promote it at individual, local, national and international levels.
🎚 Difficulty: Medium
⏳ Total time: 6 hours
💰 Cost: Free
🔗 Link: Here
Future Learn – Digital Wellbeing
Do digital technologies affect our wellbeing? Explore the concepts of health, relationships and society in the digital age. What is the impact of digital technology on our health, relationships and society? How do we ensure our own digital wellbeing? Explore the answers to these questions and more with this course.
You will investigate new and established technologies and their impact on society, looking at the positives and negatives of engaging with technology.
You will also learn how to ensure your own digital wellbeing, exploring: how to balance online and offline activities, how to stay safe physically and virtually, strategies for dealing with information overload and creating a positive digital identity.
🎚 Difficulty: Easy
⏳ Total time: 9 hours
💰 Cost: Free
🔗 Link: Here
edX – The Science of Happiness
We all want to be happy, and there are countless ideas about what happiness is and how we can get some. But not many of those ideas are based on science. That’s where this course comes in.
“The Science of Happiness” is the first MOOC to teach the ground-breaking science of positive psychology, which explores the roots of a happy and meaningful life. Students will engage with some of the most provocative and practical lessons from this science, discovering how cutting-edge research can be applied to their own lives. Created by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, the course will zero in on a fundamental finding from positive psychology: that happiness is inextricably linked to having strong social connections and contributing to something bigger than yourself—the greater good. Students will learn about the cross-disciplinary research supporting this view, spanning the fields of psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and beyond.
🎚 Difficulty: Easy
⏳ Total time: 50 hours
💰 Cost: Free
🔗 Link: Here