The WorldBeing Approach.
WorldBeing pairs inner development with structural change to make mental wellbeing a foundational part of public education. We strengthen the capacities adolescents can draw on to navigate adversity, while working with governments to build wellbeing into the education systems around them.
Our ambition: reach 30 million adolescents by 2030.
Our ambition: reach 30 million adolescents by 2030.
We believe
...that every person on the planet has valuable knowledge about what it means to be well for them as human beings. And that each person has the capacity to access their own best answers to some of the hardest questions and challenges of life.
...that there are scientific ways to study how to improve wellbeing worldwide—and that by doing this research, crucial learnings can be helpful to us all.
....that supporting wellbeing worldwide is impossible unless we have voices with contextual, personal, lived experience, and also those with evidence of scientific methods—collaborating towards how we can support individual, communal, and global wellbeing.
...that there are scientific ways to study how to improve wellbeing worldwide—and that by doing this research, crucial learnings can be helpful to us all.
....that supporting wellbeing worldwide is impossible unless we have voices with contextual, personal, lived experience, and also those with evidence of scientific methods—collaborating towards how we can support individual, communal, and global wellbeing.
Our Model: Working From the Inside Out
Poverty, gender inequality, violence, exclusion, and economic insecurity create pervasive pressures that affect adolescents’ mental wellbeing and opportunities.
Our ‘working from the inside out’ model strengthens the wellbeing, agency, resilience, and connection adolescents can draw on to navigate those pressures, make consequential choices, advocate for themselves, and shape their futures.
But individual capacity is only one part of change. Teachers, families, schools, communities, and public systems must reinforce wellbeing too. We work outward—from adolescents, to the relationships around them, to the education systems that reach and support them.
Our ‘working from the inside out’ model strengthens the wellbeing, agency, resilience, and connection adolescents can draw on to navigate those pressures, make consequential choices, advocate for themselves, and shape their futures.
But individual capacity is only one part of change. Teachers, families, schools, communities, and public systems must reinforce wellbeing too. We work outward—from adolescents, to the relationships around them, to the education systems that reach and support them.
The WorldBeing Model offers a multi-disciplinary and integrative approach to developing personal resilience + wellbeing.
How We Do It
We partner with governments and locally rooted organizations to translate the ‘working from the inside out’ model into public education. The form adapts to each context; the core is evidence-based, locally shaped, and designed for government ownership.
Innovation/
Adapt
Combine research with young people’s and educators’ insights to design wellbeing programs that work in local classrooms and communities.
Training/
Equip
Build government training systems that prepare teachers and school leaders to make wellbeing part of everyday learning and school culture.
Advocacy/
Embed
Integrate wellbeing into policy, budgets, curriculum and textbooks, teacher development, the school day, and measurement.
Research/
Prove
Generate and share evidence on impact, fidelity, and adaptation at scale across contexts.
WorldBeing builds the model, provides technical assistance, and generates the evidence; governments deliver, finance, and sustain it at scale.
“After training, I have learned to handle difficult emotions well. I can easily understand the feelings of others and also give emotional support when needed.”
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