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