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Online courses are self-paced eLearning On-Demand with facilitator support available by phone and email.

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Wellness Within – Training Program For Individuals & Teams

8-hours ONLINE Self-paced Wellbeing Training Program

Wellness Within is the Australasian Sustainable Wellness Academy’s 8-hour course to give you the practical mental health and wellbeing knowledge, skills, practical tools and techniques to adapt, grow and thrive. Designed for the needs of busy individuals in today’s ever-changing work environments, this award-winning course is a flexible, scaleable and measurable approach for sustainable wellbeing.

Delivered in bite-size sessions within 8 topics, your course is packed with practical tools and techniques to strengthen your capabilities to live and work at your best with:

  • Knowledge of WHAT the 8 principles of wellness are and importantly, HOW to implement IMMEDIATELY for greater mental health and wellbeing
  • Self-care techniques to help you to think clearer, eat better, move more, stress less and sleep better
  • Practical ways to avoid burnout including meditation, mindfulness, breath, nutrition, exercise and more
  • The ASWA Wellness Tracker to identify your wellbeing strengths and where to focus your time and energies
  • Personally led by Angela Derks, workplace wellbeing specialist with 25+ years of professional experience
  • 100% self-paced online delivery to suit your life and work schedule
  • Ongoing peer support
  • A proven evidence-based framework
  • A certificate issued upon completion of your courses

Based on Australia’s Gold Coast we deliver this program nationally and internationally to support the mental health and wellbeing of people everywhere.

Benefits

Evidence-based

Delivering more than just personal guidelines to live and work well, this program is an evidence-based framework for understanding and strengthening your wellbeing skills, combined with peer support to educate and enable you to take control of your wellbeing.

Connection and Community

Personal connections with qualified health and wellbeing professionals and other like-minded people in the online ASWA wellness community provides access to all the group support and encouragement needed throughout the program and beyond – to help you to build and maintain resilience, mindfulness, mental clarity and inner peace, for personal health and wellbeing.

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Measuring Wellbeing

The ASWA Wellness Tracker is included in your Wellness Within Program/s to enable you to measure your wellbeing efforts, determine where to focus your resources and strengthen your outcomes.

Wellness Tracker - overall score % and Principles %For wellness leaders, champions and co-ordinators, have you taken the time to analyse how successful your wellbeing initiatives have been over the last year? Though it can be difficult to measure the real impacts of your wellbeing initiatives – it definitely can be done!

Talk to us about connecting the impact of wellbeing initiatives to business metrics that get the attention of your leadership team.

Outcomes

Personal Outcomes

You can expect the following outcomes from your wellbeing program:

  • self-care strategies and techniques that can be implemented immediately to avoid burnout;
  • increased resilience to shift from chaos to inner calm;
  • more consistent energy levels, mental clarity and better sleep;
  • daily support to achieve and maintain wellbeing;
  • greater mindfulness for healthier relationships, both personally and professionally;

Outcomes for teams

The Wellness Within Program was developed to achieve these three team and community outcomes:
1. To enable individuals and teams to take a proactive preventative approach to their own mental health and wellbeing to support them through challenging times.
2. To enable professional communities to collaboratively support one another’s health and wellbeing.
3. To contribute to enhanced workplace and community outcomes through enhancing engagement, wellbeing and connectivity.

In addition to delivering on these three key aims, Wellness Within has been described as a “powerful way to spark conversations which support the cultivation of trust and respect within professional communities.”

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Structure
  • Eight topics – Resilience, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Breath, Purpose, Values, Movement and Sleep
  • 53 Bite-sized sessions – 5 to 9 mins each on average
  • Videos
  • Downloadable PDF’s chocked-full of information and inspiration
  • The ASWA Wellness Tracker
  • Three diagnostic tools
  • Peer learning and daily support

Topics

The format of the Wellness Within Program is designed for the busy professional. The program contains 8 core topics:

  1. Values
  2. Purpose
  3. Mindfulness
  4. Breath
  5. Resilience
  6. Breath
  7. Nutrition
  8. Sleep

Inspired by the incredible research and practices of wellbeing concept pioneers Dr John Travis’ and  Dr Martin Seligman, these 8 principles of wellness are the daily habits that have the greatest impact on your wellbeing.

Duration

You have complete control on how quickly or as slowly you travel along your wellness within journey. It’s your wellbeing, it’s your way, as suits your life and work schedule.  You can complete this program in 1 full day or take it slower over weeks or months. As a guideline, with the investment of 15 minutes 4 days per week, the course would take you 8 weeks. Any way you choose, this course will enable you to practice integrating your newfound skills into your daily life and work for sustainable mental health and wellbeing and you have ongoing access to the resources of this program. That way, you have complete flexibility to take control of your wellbeing – for a healthier, calmer and more harmonious life.

Flexibility and Relevance

We developed this program in consultation with experts in the fields of health and wellbeing, including General Practitioner, Nutrition, Mindfulness, Psychotherapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Breath, Resilience and Sleep. Maximum flexibility combined with optimum relevance for living and working in today’s world enables you to achieve and sustain your best life and career.

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Certification

The Australasian Sustainable Wellness Academy’s Wellness Within Program is well respected nationally and internationally for providing individuals and teams with the essential skills to integrate wellness for healthy optimum performance in life and work.

You will receive a certificate of completion at the end of your program.

Note that this course does not result in a nationally recognised qualification.

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Pricing and Refund Policy

Your investment for a lifetime of wellbeing skills and support is only AU$249 per person

For work teams, community groups and schools, volume pricing is available – Contact us

Refunds

Unhappy is not in our DNA so if, within the first week of paying for your program, you are unhappy with your Wellness Within program for any reason, you can contact us via phone, email or through the feedback function within the student portal to request your full refund.

Refunds may take 2-4 weeks to process.

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More Information

Award-winning Skills

As Asia-Pacific’s award-winning leaders in training wellness and management skills, the Wellness Within Program was developed by, and is exclusive to, the Australasian Sustainable Wellness Academy. Developed in consultation with award-winning industry leaders, this program provides comprehensive, practical skills needed in today’s ever-changing world. Aligned with the latest wellbeing best practices and evidence-based concepts, this innovative and relevant program teaches HOW to embed wellness into daily routines to strengthen individual, team and business performance.

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Need more information?

For more information and frequently asked questions download the Program Guide.

Contact us to discuss a ‘best fit’ solution for your team or business needs.

What others have to say about us:

Having spent my working career in a high paced, demanding and stressful industry, I wanted to learn how to prioritise my health and wellbeing whilst still building and maintaining a successful career. Angela’s support and guidance throughout the course has been invaluable and I would highly recommend that organisations invest in wellness training and development like that offered by ASWA, even more so in this era of COVID-19.

Kerrie Brown

Lawyer, Brisbane

I felt less alone and am very grateful to have been gifted this training course to learn and practice personal skills in wellbeing. Having Angela facilitate the online group also gives me a greater sense of purpose and a safe space to connect with others. I don’t know how I would’ve got through this challenging year without my Wellness Within and ASWA.

Lauren Adams

ASWA’s Wellness Within program provides the tools, techniques and support for team members to take control of their own wellbeing.

Michael Blackburn

Business Development Manager, Data Services Group

Our environment is fast paced and ever changing so employee wellbeing is key to having a productive and engaged team. ASWA’s training programs provide practical techniques and tips to support me and my team.

Melissa Blanks

Business Manager, First State Super

The ASWA Wellness Tracker provides a great overall snapshot of an individual or a group to determine and prioritise wellbeing needs as a basis for developing a wellbeing business case and strategic planning purposes.

Stephanie Jenkins

Zoos Australia

What gets measured gets managed. For my team and organisation, the ASWA Wellness ROI Calculator and Wellness Tracker provide relevant data and benchmarks for measuring and monitoring our wellbeing strategy and initiatives to shift from reactive to prevention-focused.

Michael Blackburn

Business Development Manager, Data Services Group

ASWA’s concept of providing roadmaps for wellness in life, workplaces and businesses, are excellent innovations that provide opportunity for leaders, and future leaders, to participate in innovative and valuable development programs.

Natalie Singh

People and Culture Business Partner - Health Club Industry, Australia

People need to feel safe coming to work and to be able to bring their whole self to work. With a team of approx. 100 people and an environment that is fast paced and ever changing, employee wellbeing is key to having a productive and engaged team. ASWA has helped us form strategies on how to create an environment that promotes health, safety and wellbeing.

Melissa Blanks

Business Manager, First State Super

I’ve enrolled in your Wellness Within Program today and I’ve just finished the Wellness Tracker, which I thought was spot on in terms of the results and how it is illustrated … great work. Looking forward to continuing the program!

Allan Barnett

Brisbane, Australia

What gets measured gets managed. For my team and organisation, the ASWA Wellness Tracker provides a benchmark for measuring and monitoring our wellness strategy and initiatives. The Wellness Within program provides the tools, techniques and support for team members to take control of their own wellbeing.

Michael Blackburn

Business Development Manager, Data Services Group

Personally, the ASWA Wellness Tracker provides an essential measurement of my wellbeing and importantly, where to focus my time and energy for the greatest impact.

Kelly Davis

People and Culture Manager, Freedom Transport

I wanted to combine business skills with my passion for helping people with fitness and wellbeing to live healthier and more fulfilling lives. Convenient and easy to organise in my own time at home, I enjoyed every module. We have expert assistance from Angela and the ASWA team who are approachable and available.

Eddie Zavarce

Recreation Manager, Ayers Rock Resort

This 8-hour ONLINE self-paced wellbeing program provides the framework, tools and techniques to support physical and mental health of individuals and teams.

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