Design you Own: Team Wellbeing Rhythm
Needs: We all have them!
Considering our needs in layers, like layers of rock and soil beneath our feet, provides the foundations for a wellbeing practice. We can use this soil horizons diagram to make our own Needs Map.
- Enrichment (organic matter, the bits others can see)
- Practical (topsoil/eluviation layer, helping things grow)
- Faith (subsoil, the inner knowing around our needs)
- Comfort + Joy (parent rock, the care and nurture we give ourselves)
- Core (bedrock, the foundations to wellbeing)
Creating a Wellbeing Rhythm
A Rhythm is a strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound, like the beat of walking along a pathway. Based on your needs and your teams needs, you can design a rhythm that supports your wellbeing.
Pathway Visualisation and designing your Wellbeing Rhythm
- Your page represents a block of time, choose if you want it to represent a day, week or month.
- Draw a path across your page, doodle landscape features around your path, plants, rivers, resting places, meandering detours, viewpoints, flowers, weather, rocks, a pond or trees.
- At the edges of your page, write down some opposites to your needs, using your Needs Map for reference.
- Now consider your landscape features, what do they tell you about how wellbeing needs could be met. For example, rocks could mean problems that need to be moved out of the way at the beginning of the day, a pond could be a pool of reflection, show you that you and you team need time to reflect and think as part of the working week. Spend some time labelling your drawing.
- Now consider your drawing, maybe discuss with a colleague.
- On a fresh sheet you can create your Wellbeing Rhythm, title your page Work Day, Work Week or Work Month. Then split your page into 3, labelling Beginning, Middle and End. Organise your thoughts from your Needs Map and Pathway Visualisation, identifying how you can design ways to keep you and your team well and healthy.
Healing-Centred Design: Rhythm and Ritual
Watch this video to find out more about the principle of Rhythm + Ritual within our framework to create healthy work cultures.
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