Wholebeing Library
Explore our collection of recipes to craft personalised individual and collective wholebeing learning journeys.
Our online wholebeing library offers a freely accessible resource kit to accompany you and your team in your wholebeing journey. It is rooted in our Wholebeing Framework, consisting of 150+ Wholebeing Skills mapped across 12 Wholebeing Domains to learn to thrive together. A Wholebeing Domain is a core area of focus encompassing related skills essential for wholebeing and changemaking. A Wholebeing Skill is a learnable capability that empowers individuals and communities to thrive while creative positive change. We invite you to explore our wholebeing recipes using the dedicated search and filtering boxes, which allow you to find recipes around a specific domain, skill, group size, duration, and/or level of difficulty.
DISCLAIMER: Whilst we do our best to prove the effectiveness of each recipe before we publish it on
our website, we cannot guarantee it will work with everyone. Each of us is on a unique journey, meaning that
the impact of our recipes will differ from person to person, from organisation to organisation, and from
community to community. We also attempt to acknowledge the sources for all our recipes, but this may not
always be possible. If you come across a recipe and know of its original source, please don’t hesitate to
reach out to us so we can add the relevant acknowledgements.

5 perfectionist profiles
Identifying your perfectionist profile.

Aromesis© – Healing with essential oils
Combining intuition and essential oils to heal.

Breastfeeding positions
Tips on different positions to adopt to support breastfeeding.

Challenging dominant worldviews
Exploring a kincentric and earth-based consciousness.

Developing emotional agility
A four-step process to become flexible with your thoughts and feelings.

Emotional regulation in teams
Strategies to regulate emotions in individuals and teams.

Establishing group agreements
A process to define agreements to work in groups.

Managing the fawn response
Tips to shift from maladaptive to adaptive fawn response.

Managing the fight response
Tips to shift from maladaptive to adaptive fight response.

Managing the flight response
Tips to shift from maladaptive to adaptive flight response.

Managing the freeze response
Tips to shift from maladaptive to adaptive freeze response.

Matrescence: From womanhood to motherhood
Supporting the spiritual transformation from woman to mother.

Principles of strategy for community transformation
Shifting from stuck to restorative community.

Returning to community to resolve conflicts
Practices to restore a community from an individual’s damaging behaviour.

The wheel of emotions and feelings
A compass to name your emotions and feelings and build emotional regulation in teams.

Whale meditation
Relaxing the nervous system with whale songs.
10 categories of fear
A thought-provoking inquiry into fears to gain control over them.
10 ways to enjoy happiness at work
Tips to boost happiness at work.
11 ways to improve digital boundaries
Create healthy boundaries and improved digital habits.
3 good things
Savouring in the goodness to rewire our brain for happiness.
3 questions to discover your purpose
Sitting with 3 thought-provoking questions to get closer to your purpose.
36 Qs for increasing closeness
A deeply connecting practice to increase closeness with others.
4-7-8 breathing technique
A breathing technique to relax and calm down.
4 steps to choosing your guiding word for the new year
A reflective practice to choose a guiding word for the upcoming year.
4 tips to avoid WFH burnout
Tips to avoid burnout while working from home.
5 elements meditation
Using the elements to cultivate calmness and connection.
5 stages of team development
Understanding the internal characteristics influencing the performance of your team.
5 steps to purpose
A five-step process to discover your purpose.
5 steps towards “critical wellness” to overcome racism
A five-step process to heal from the wounds of racism and discrimination.
6 causes of burnout
Recognise the 6 root causes of burnout and how to address them.
6 red flags of burnout
Notice red flags in your team to avoid burnout.
7 practices for peace
A seven-day programme to transform you into a peacemaker.
8 steps to forgiveness
A healing practice to let go of pain and anger.
9 habits for a healthy lifestyle
Tips for living a healthy life.
A picture says a thousand words
A creative exercise to gain access to your meaning in life.
A way into your purpose
A peer-coaching activity to help you gain clarity over your life purpose.
A year in a day
Using a 24-hour day to take stock of the past year and welcome the new year.
Action learning set
A group-coaching activity to help someone get unstuck and move forward.
Active listening
Promoting understanding and improving communication through listening.
Affirmations for body positivity
Create personalised body positivity affirmations to help ignite your body acceptance journey.
Alternate nostril breathing
A calming breathing technique.
Appreciation shower
A deep activity to cultivate gratitude and touch people’s hearts.
Arm linking
A vulnerability exercise to build a sense of connection and shared humanity.
Asking powerful questions in your organisation
Deep questions to stir up new, creative ideas for the success of your organisation.
Automate your savings
Automate your savings for wellbeing.
Backcasting to move forward
A backcasting practice to clarify your wellbeing goals and catch yourself when you are off track.
Balance the ball
A simple activity to practise balance for children and young people.
Befriending stress
Change your perspective towards stress to turn it in your favour.
Belief change process
A deep change process to move beyond limiting beliefs.
Beyond allyship: Coalition
A critique of allyship and an invitation to transcend it through coalition building.
Bodies as sites of liberation
Practices to reclaim your birthright.
Body scan meditation
A brief meditation to re-align body and mind.
Body scan meditation for sleep
A brief meditation to help you sleep.
Box breathing
A breathing technique to relax the nervous system and alleviate stress.
BRAVING
A check-list to trust others and ourselves and brave the wilderness.
Brief Resilience Scale
Assess your ability to bounce back.
Building a conscious relationship with your phone
A reflective practice to foster a more conscious relationship with your smartphone.
Burnout and wellbeing scale
A questionnaire to assess your level of burnout and wellbeing.
Calm your nerves
A little mindfulness can go a long way.
Catharsis through clay
Processing tensions through kneading clay.
CBT strategies to help you sleep
Self-initiated informal strategies to help you sleep.
Chair yoga
Using a chair to stretch and flex your body.
Coaching feedback
Transforming feedback in a positive force for change.
Collaboration questions
How does collaboration look like in our team?
Collaborative painting
A creative activity to let your imagination wander and be fully in the moment.
Colour-breathing meditation
Using colours to cultivate calmness and happiness.
Colourful confusions
Awareness and acceptance of difficult emotions through drawing.
Community bingo
A series of online challenges and activities to engage your participants.
Community Wealth Building
Strategies for community-centred economic development.
Compassionate listening
Tips to cultivate deep listening.
Connecting through music
A music-based activity to get to know each other in a different way.
Controlling your social media feeds
Tips to manage your social media feeds.
Coping with a sense of urgency
Embracing “enough” in a paradigm of scarcity.
Coping with panic attacks
A simple technique to cope with panic attacks.
Coping with unhealthy perfectionism
Understanding and dealing with unhealthy perfectionism.
Council circle
An ancient form of meeting to listen to everyone and attend to the wellbeing of the group.
Crafting a birth plan
A tool to consider your many birth options and have care providers respect your choices.
Create the optimal work setup in 5 steps
Health and productivity considerations for remote workers.
Creating a 4-day workweek
Evaluating and implementing a four-day workweek for organisations.
Creating a safe squad
A reflective practice to recognise the safe and secure relationships in your life and appreciate them.
Creating Biocultural Community Protocols
Biocultural community protocol(s) for external agencies to engage with indigenous and local communities.
Creating rain storm
An energiser to gather the attention of a group.
Creating ripples
Spreading ripples of love, hope, and happiness.
Creating the right work spaces
Setting up your work space to encourage high performance in your organisation.
Creativity through boredom
A week of challenges to detach from your phone and foster creativity.
Crossing the line
A deep activity to build diversity awareness within a group.
Cultivate a Core Economy
Challenge traditional notions of economy to sustain wellbeing.
Cultivating presence
Cultivating presence through deep listening and inquiry without imposition.
Cycle of emotions
Understand your emotions to choose how to respond.
Dance with your shadow self
A movement meditation that helps to recognise your shadow self.
Dealing with loss
A series of insights into how to cope with loss.
Dealing with others' suffering
A tonglen practice to cultivate compassion.
Dealing with shame
A mindfulness exercise to deal with shame.
Developing new wellbeing frameworks
Develop wellbeing measurements based on local characteristics.
Dialogue in the dark
A bonding experience to increase openness and trust in a group.
Dialogues with Nature
Guidance for conversing with Nature.
Digital check-ins
Our best check-ins for online meetings.
Digital check-outs
Our best check-outs for online meetings.
Digital eye gazing meditation
A digital soul-connecting meditation.
Digital goodies
Apps for mindfulness, creativity, and wellbeing.
Discover your Ikigai
Exploring the Ikigai diagram step by step.
Done list
From “to-do” to “done”.
Doughnut Economy
A visual framework for sustainable development respecting social and planetary boundaries.
Draw breath
Drawing for mindfulness.
Draw it in your own style
A creative activity to practise mindfulness through drawing and colouring.
Drop the to-do list guilt
An activity to drop unattainable standards and reclaim serenity in your life.
Economic democracy
Develop economic democracy in your community.
Economics for everyone
Change the status quo to make the economy for everyone.
Economy for the Common Good
Create an economy that benefits everyone, including the planet.
Ecstatic dance
Dance freely and ecstatically.
Email like a boss
Tips to reformulate your emails to build assertiveness.
Embodied breathing meditation
A guided practice to connect the breath with gentle meditative movement.
Empathic conversations
Stepping towards empathy and compassion.
End-of-year reflection
A reflective practice to bring closure to your year and open the new one.
End-of-year spell casting
A reflective practice to bring closure to your year and open the new one.
EQ check-in
A quick check-in practice to foster emotional intelligence in a group.
Exploring team strengths
Using animals to identify team strengths.
Eye gazing meditation
A soul-connecting meditation to feel whole.
Eye yoga
Quick exercises to stretch and rest your eyes.
Fear setting to make difficult decisions
Overcoming your paralysis by visualising your fears.
Finding your inner refuge
An investigative writing practice to find refuge from fears and desires.
Flow state
Steps for achieving and benefitting from Flow.
Gallup Well-Being Index
Improve wellbeing by using the Gallup Global Well-being Index.
Gender equality through a norm-critical workplace
Cultivating gender equality in the workplace.
Gentle morning flow
A slow-flow yoga practice to help you ground yourself.
Gentleness through grief
Learn to be gentle with yourself through grief.
Genuine Progress Indicator
Utilise the GPI to determine holistic wellbeing of the economy.
Genuine Wealth
Introducing genuine wealth for wellbeing.
Giving and receiving circle
A space for us to come together, hold space, connect and experience giving and receiving.
Gratitude bingo
Cultivating gratitude whilst having fun!
Gratitude fountain
A powerful activity to nurture gratefulness in a group.
Gratitude journal
A quick activity to send you to sleep with a smile on your face.
Gratitude walk
A trust-based exercise to appreciate the fullness of life.
Guidance from within
Three yogic questions to find guidance from within.
Habit tracker
Building a habit to track habits.
HALT
Pre-empt impulsive decision-making with HALT.
Handprints to embrace uniqueness in teams
A creative tool to map team uniqueness.
Happy Planet Index
Use the Happy Planet Index for sustainable wellbeing.
Hardwiring happiness
A science-backed book to rewire your brain to be happy.
Healing a broken heart
Tips to mend a broken heart.
Healing communication
Four practices to communicate in ways that support trauma healing.
Healthy money habits
A financial self-care routine to improve your finances.
Healthy skepticism
Learning to process information to combat fake news.
Heart-breathing meditation
A breathing technique to fill your heart with compassion.
Heart-to-heart hug
A deeply nourishing and connecting hug.
HERO Traits
Reach higher levels of wellbeing and protect yourself from burnout.
House of Wellbeing
A virtual house with thematic rooms to deepen connections.
How to be inclusive of autism in recruitment practices
Cater for greater diversity and inclusivity in your recruitment.
Ice bath
Stimulating blood flow through ice baths.
Identifying bias in performance evaluations
Four patterns to identify bias in performance evaluations.
Identifying your goals and resources
A peer-coaching action planning process to identify practical steps to move forward into your purpose.
Immune sequence (morning)
A morning yoga practice to boost your immune system.
Including and empowering women of colour at work
A practical toolkit for employers to support and empower women of colour.
Individual reflection
A reflection practice leading to action.
Inner happiness
Scientifically proven methods to increase daily happiness.
Inspiration from Ngā Tūtohu Aotearoa
Inspiration from New Zealand’s wellness practices.
Inspiration jar
A small intervention to boost inspiration and creativity in your team or office.
Introducing New Work into your workplace
Building the foundations of New Work in your workplace.
Koeppen’s relaxation for children
A technique for working on anxiety for the little ones.
Learning how to learn
A reflective exercise to turn your organisation into a learning organisation.
LGBTQIA2S+ allies in the workplace
Be an active ally for LGBTQIA2S+ colleagues.
Making your life navigation map
Identify your Guiding Star and the constellations that can guide you when you are lost.
Managing change
Symbolic death is an essential step towards self-renewal.
Managing eco-anxiety
Learn to cope with eco-anxiety.
Managing stress
Deep breathing practice to reduce stress.
Mandala drawing
A creative activity to heal your spirit.
Meeting your shadow
A creative activity to embrace your shadow.
Mental health for employers
A step-by-step toolkit to boost mental health at work.
Mental health in the workplace
Tips to create a mentally healthy workplace.
Mental rehearsal
Letting go of the past to reclaim the future.
Mind mapping for a rewarding year
A personal reflective session designed to reach goals in all aspects of your life.
Mind mapping for grief
An exercise to work through the heaviness of grief.
Mindful awareness through the body
Using the body to cultivate mindful awareness and become responsive.
Mindful check-in
A brief mindfulness check-in practice.
Mindful colouring
Colouring for peace and mindfulness.
Mindful eating
An effective practice to be present whilst enjoying food.
Mindful emailing
Improving your relationship with emails.
Mindful tech meditation
Developing a healthier relationship with all things tech.
Mitigating aftershock for activists
Tips for activists to avoid or mitigate aftershock.
Morning intention setting
A practice to act consciously.
Morning yoga routine
A practical way to start your day feeling grounded and connected.
Mountain meditation
A meditation practice to find calmness in Nature.
Multidimensional Poverty Index
Understand the multidimensions behind poverty.
Music stroll down the memory lane
Let music carry you as you reflect on your lifetime.
Narrative reframing for sleep
Stories for getting back to sleep.
Nature Altar
Reconnecting to the sacred through altar-making.
Neurodiversity in the modern workplace
Understanding the benefits and challenges of a neurodiverse inclusive workforce.
New Year's Manifesto
A manifesto for the year.
Nurture your compassion roots
A reflective journaling practice to root yourself in compassion.
NVC dance floor
A dance floor to transform conflicts.
Open sentences on gratitude
Open sentences to discover gratefulness.
Optimistic leadership
Instil an organisational culture that values positivity, accountability, and celebration.
Organisations as inquiring systems
Questions to assess your organisation’s capabilities.
Overcome low battery anxiety (iPhone)
Digital tips to overcome low battery anxiety.
Personal user manual
Boosting teamwork by sharing personal user manuals.
Pleasure activism
Reclaiming our whole, happy, and satisfiable selves.
Pomodoro® Technique for Wellbeing
How to increase productivity and wellbeing.
Portraiture
A creative activity to uncover your inner and outer self.
Positive gossiping
A group activity to celebrate each other and foster gratefulness in a fun way.
Positive introductions
Allowing people to get to know your best self.
PowerPoint for a peaceful sleep
PowerPoint-style gratitude reflection for improved sleep.
Practising body neutrality
Learn to practise body neutrality.
Privilege walk
A powerful activity to uncover the layers of privilege in our lives.
Raisin meditation
Mindfulness through the senses.
Recipe for a good life
Uncovering the ingredients for a good life.
Recognising brain strengths
A tool to map and celebrate different brain qualities.
Regenerative Economy
Implore the principles of a Regenerative Economy.
Regression meditation
A powerful tool to explore how early experiences shape your life.
Releasing energy
Creating a shield to protect you from negative energy.
Respectful rejection letters
Craft a respectful rejection letter.
Rethinking rejection
Rethinking rejection to build resilience.
Ring theory
Drawing your circle of support.
SDG3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Global commitment to wellbeing.
Seizing the day
Carpe diem.
Self-care budget
Create a self-care budget.
Self-care for adults with ADHD
Prioritise self-care as an adult living with ADHD.
Self-compassion for your inner child
A creative activity to boost self-compassion.
Simple breathing exercise
Tuning into the breath to control our minds.
Sleeping well
Tips for a good night’s sleep.
Smart studying with your phone
Discover the art of smart studying by harnessing the potential of your phone.
Social media for mental health education
Tips on social media for mental health educators and advocates.
Social universe
A reflective activity to define your social universe.
Solo balloon volleyball
Who said volleyball can’t be played alone?
Solo day
A practice in solitude to rekindle connection.
Spring equinox ritual
A short ritual to celebrate the arrival of spring.
Standing somatic practice
Ground yourself with a standing somatic practice.
STOPP framework
A simple framework to work with difficult emotions.
Stopping micro-aggressions for women of colour in employment
A set of examples to raise awareness of micro-aggressions for women of colour in employment.
Strategies to support LGBTQIA2S+ folks in the workplace
Strategies for increased inclusion.
Strengthening your immune system
A simple but powerful self-healing meditation to boost your immune system.
Stress diary
A diary to log your stress episodes.
Sugar cubes
A quick way to cultivate gratitude.
Sun salutation
A series of postures to start your day feeling centred and aligned.
Support the Sustainable Development Goals
Take action to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
Swapping envy for joy
A meditation exercise that transforms envy into joy.
Take a step forward
A powerful activity to raise awareness about inequality of opportunity and foster empathy.
Take control of your life with a digital detox
Disconnecting digitally to reconnect meaningfully.
Talking mental health in the workplace
Skills to discuss mental health concerns with work colleagues.
Tea meditation
Reaching a mindful state of being by savouring tea.
Thanksgiving Address
The words that come before all else.
The AQAL model
A tool to map the external and internal dimensions of new work organisations.
The art of happiness
An insightful and practical book to help you develop the skill of happiness.
The book of life
What chapter in life are you currently in?
The dangers of clickbait and how to avoid it
Safeguarding against clickbait: Understanding its perils and ways to dodge them.
The deathbed test
A self-inquiry to discover the meaning in life.
The desire to change
Finding the desire to change.
The DO’s and DON’Ts of Allyship
DOs and DON’Ts for white people wishing to become anti-racist allies for BIPOC.
The Five Remembrances meditation
A meditation to accept reality as it is and find peace.
The four female archetypes
Exploring the powers and shadows of the female archetypes.
The four seasons of a woman’s cycle
Adapting your schedule to your cycle to harness your power.
The gift of poetry
Using metaphors to turn your emotional states into poetic gifts.
The gratitude alarm
Hourly reminders to cultivate gratitude.
The habits scorecard
Making unconscious habits conscious.
The Humankind Index
Measure wellbeing using Oxfam’s Humankind Index.
The iceberg model
A tool to surface what is behind visible behaviour in individuals.
The joy of uselessness
Practise the noble art of being useless.
The ladder of inference
A tool to minimise misunderstandings.
The life map
A tool to share your story and connect.
The no-spend challenge
An exercise to challenge your spending habits.
The parenting plate
Be more purposeful and present as a parent by knowing what is on your plate.
The PERMA model
A model for psychological wellbeing.
The regenerative action cycle
Observing natural cycles for human activities.
The river of life
Exploring the flow that connects our changemaker journey.
The wheel of awareness
A time-in practice to integrate consciousness.
The wheel of burnout
Exploring the root causes of burnout.
The wheel of power and privilege
Mapping marginalisation in an intersectional way.
The wheel of social identity
Mapping visible and invisible social identities.
The wheel of wellbeing at work
Take a snapshot to assess wellbeing at work.
Theory of Change for wellbeing
Develop a Theory of Change that improves community wellbeing.
Thriving at work as a highly sensitive person
Advocate for yourself at work as an HSP.
Thriving Places Index
An index for sustainable wellbeing.
Tips for financial budgeting
A financial budget based on your personality.
Tips for time management
Simple tips to avoid the “multitasking trap” and be happier and more productive at work.
Tips to avoid burnout
A series of tips to avoid burnout.
Track your nutrition whilst travelling
Tips to eat healthily whilst travelling.
Transforming conflict
Using the heart to transform conflict into an opportunity.
Tree reflection
Using the metaphor of a tree to reflect on projects or situations.
Tree talk
A deep listening activity to help young people connect with Nature.
Truth mandala
A ritual to honour our pain for the world so as to heal from it.
Unexpressed gratitude letter
A healing activity to foster forgiveness and acceptance.
Unlimited empathy
A group activity to foster empathy and deepen the bonds.
VIA Character Strengths
Knowing and using your strengths has more benefits than you might think!
Virtual Nature walk
A virtual walking meditation to bring calm and relaxation.
Vulnerability and honesty at the dinner table
An opportunity to build community by having a dinner with guests who can engage in memorable open and honest conversation.
Walking meditation
A quick walking meditation to connect you to the Earth.
Weekly planner for uncertain times
A planner to help navigate the complexity of uncertainty.
Wellbeing at work
Bringing organisational wellbeing to life.
Wellbeing courses
Online courses on wellbeing.
What I love about you
A group activity to celebrate each other and foster gratefulness.
Wicked questions
A game to reframe your question in a more powerful one.
Women's health and wellbeing in the workplace
A set of principles to advance women’s health and wellbeing in the workplace.
Words matter
What do you say when you talk about mental health?
Wordtangles to untangle the mind
A visual journaling process to bring clarity and peace of mind.
Workplace wellbeing assessment
A checklist for setting the foundation for a workplace wellbeing programme.
Workplace wellbeing programme evaluation
A set of guidelines to evaluate your workplace wellbeing programme.
Year compass
A set of questions to help you reflect on your past year and plan for the year ahead.
Yoga practice for people after menstruation
A cleansing and vitalising yoga practice appropriate for people after menstruation.
Yoga practice for people during menstruation
A calming yoga practice appropriate for people during menstruation.
Yoga4Peace
A heart-opening practice for a deeper connection with oneself, others, and the environment.
Zines
A mini-pamphlet to harvest and capture meaning.