EL29 - Me, We, & Us: The Foundations of Workplace Wellbeing

Research and evidence from the fields of positive psychology and positive organizational scholarship has outlined the keys for workplace wellbeing. Dr. Aaron Jarden—a professor of psychology, leading organizational wellbeing researcher and consultant at Auckland University of Technology—described the most effective way he’s found to embed wellbeing programs into workplaces. The use of a simple ‘me’, ‘we’ and ‘us’ framework can be understood by anyone in a veterinary organization, from interns to CEOs. It gives a practical language to get others on board, to understand the concepts, and envision how the strategies will be implemented. Utilizing this straightforward framework in veterinary medicine, it can be broken down into the same “me, we, and us.”