About Regional Wellbeing Masterclasses
A community engagement collaboration to promote wellbeing through inspiring education, training, professional development and events.
Regional Wellbeing Masterclasses Description
“The happiness of any society begins with the well-being of the families that live in it. ” – Kofi Annan
The premise of “Regional Wellbeing Masterclasses” is to provide a series of inspiring, innovative and high quality professional development opportunities around the concept of ‘wellbeing’. The Masterclasses will take renowned speakers and leaders in the field of Wellbeing out of the capital cities and bring them to regional northern NSW. Based in Coffs Harbour, the Masterclasses will enable professionals and interested community members from throughout the region to access current thinking and research on wellbeing. The Masterclasses will also provide an opportunity for participants to share and exchange knowledge, skills, experiences, resources and tools with each other and to form partnerships and collaborations to further promote and enhance community wellbeing.
Although the Masterclasses will all have a central theme of promoting community wellbeing each event will have a particular focus area. For example, our inaugural event has a focus on the Wellbeing of Young People where experts in positive psychology and wellbeing will share their insights and explore strategies for nurturing wellbeing in young people.
The founding members of this community engagement collaboration are: Rachael Jones (Student Engagement & Wellbeing Counsellor | Southern Cross University); Liz Wilkins (Executive Officer | Youth Directions, Directions Plus); Karen Plumbe (Northside Health) and Sue Currie (Team Leader: Families & Communities | Mid Coast Communities). Please let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback on how we can continually improve on what we do!