BeWELL creates intentional space, programming and activities to support the community and wellbeing of University of Minnesota students across disciplines at our health professional campuses - Duluth, Rochester, St. Cloud, and Twin Cities.
As experts in the field, BeWELL collaborates with the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing. BeWELL cites their Wellbeing Model as a basis for designing or curating wellbeing programming.
Our programming falls into one or more of the dimensions of wellbeing:
- Community
- Environment
- Health
- Relationships
- Security
- Purpose
The Bakken Center states, “Wellbeing is a state of general contentment with life and the way things are. In this state, we experience balance in mind, body and spirit and feel connected to purpose, people and community.”
As health professional students, wellbeing may call for a greater need to emphasize stress reduction, self-care and resilience-building. We encourage students to look at wellbeing holistically and as a dynamic presence with a keen focus on the importance of finding community within and across programs. We focus on integrating wellbeing into students’ educational experiences, with a hope that these skills and experiences transfer into enhanced wellbeing in students’ personal life and professional careers.
We invite students to explore your own definitions of what wellbeing means to you and engage with programming that supports your needs. And, we encourage students to weave wellbeing into existing routines, rather than adding to a to-do list.
