Understanding Quality of Life As A Model for Sustainability

This program starts with a review of various interconnected concepts such as wellbeing, happiness, life satisfaction and quality of life. This understanding is fundamental in the design of sound sustainability programs for employees, customers and the community at large. Participants will have better clarity of mind when evaluating proposed projects and developing sustainability programs.

The program focuses on the psychology of quality of life, specific to life domains, and reviews research and models of wellbeing that integrate and unify disparate concepts.

Definitions, and Measures of Wellbeing
 Subjective vs. objective aspects
 Inputs vs. outcomes
 Inner vs. outer aspects
 Happiness vs. life satisfaction
 Subjective wellbeing as an umbrella concept
 Ontological model of wellbeing
 Structural model of wellbeing and illbeing
 Hierarchical model of wellbeing and illbeing
 Integrative Models of wellbeing

Effects of Dynamic Domains
  Life experiences segmented in life domains
  Life domain theories of wellbeing 

Work Wellbeing
  How work wellbeing contributes to positive mental health
  Other consequences of work wellbeing
  Predictors of work wellbeing

Residential Wellbeing
 Impact of residential wellbeing on subjective quality of life
 Factors affecting residential wellbeing

Material Wellbeing
 Impact of material wellbeing on subjective quality of life
 Predictors of material wellbeing

Social, Family, and Marital Wellbeing
 Predictors of material wellbeing Social, Family, and Marital Wellbeing
 Impact of social, family, and marital wellbeing on positive mental health
 Predictors of social, family, and marital wellbeing

Health Wellbeing
  Impact of health wellbeing on subjective aspect of quality of life
  Predictors of health wellbeing

Leisure Wellbeing
 Impact of leisure wellbeing on subjective quality of life
 Link between leisure wellbeing and subjective quality of life
 Predictors of leisure wellbeing Wellbeing in Other Domains

Wellbeing In Other Domains
 National wellbeing 
 Environmental wellbeing
 Educational wellbeing

Sustainability Communications
  How to plan sustainability projects?
  Integrating Quality of Life into Sustainability
 Communications Model for Sustainability

Please contact labs@ippaworld.com to obtain further info and to enroll.