Wellbeing 101 is an evidence-based course designed to help students build resilience, manage stress, strengthen coping skills, and recognize when to seek help before challenges escalate into crisis situations. The course empowers students to better understand their mental and emotional wellbeing while developing healthier habits and decision-making strategies.
Using evidence-based strategies and personalized learning techniques, Wellbeing 101 provides students with an individualized learning experience focused on meaningful behavior change and proactive support. The course helps students identify stressors, recognize emotional responses, improve self-awareness, and develop practical tools for managing everyday challenges involving academics, relationships, social pressure, technology use, and mental health.
Wellbeing 101 was developed to help schools, colleges, and organizations provide scalable mental health support without increasing staff workload. The course supports proactive intervention efforts by helping students develop resilience and healthy coping strategies before higher-level intervention becomes necessary.
After taking Wellbeing 101, the individual will be able to:
- Construct a support system “map”
- Reflect on past trauma to identify triggers and stressors
- Distinguish between positive and negative stress
- Identify their physical and psychological responses to stress as a part of managing stressors
- Identify coping strategies that can be used to deal with stress
- Develop a personalized plan for dealing with stress and workload
- Differentiate between generalized anxiety and social anxiety
- Recognize their unique physical signs of and triggers for anxiety
- Choose positive coping strategies for anxiety and depression
- Identify the red flags of self-harm and suicide
- Understand the effect of alcohol, cannabis, prescription drug misuse on mental health
- Identify proactive steps to make informed decisions regarding substance use and abuse
- Learn ways to manage peer pressure
- Identify ways to maintain healthy romantic relationships
- List and make a plan for balancing academic and social life priorities
- Reflect on sleep patterns and improve sleep hygiene
- Identify disordered eating patterns in self and others
- Recognize the affect of nutrition on mental and physical health
- Identify the components of a balanced diet
- Identify proactive ways to practice self-care
- Identify strategies for building self-esteem
- Recognize the impact of technology on mental health
- Understand the benefits of taking a social media break
- Identify the red flags of gaming addiction
- Choose strategies for creating a balance between digital and non-digital activities
When implemented effectively, Wellbeing 101 helps institutions move beyond crisis response by encouraging early intervention, improving self-awareness, and strengthening long-term resilience. The course supports schools and organizations in fostering healthier student behaviors, increasing help-seeking behaviors, and promoting overall student wellbeing and success.
Wellbeing 101 is available for colleges, high schools, and courts, providing flexible prevention and intervention solutions that support student and individual wellbeing across diverse populations.
