Together. Forward. Bold. An Exceptional Place Where Everyone Thrives.
What do you want most for your loved ones? This question, asked of hundreds of residents of Midland County, Michigan since 2020, typically elicits answers such as happiness, health, meaning, security, resilience, and relationships. Without knowing an official definition, we seem to intuitively know what wellbeing is. The Midland Area Wellbeing Coalition defines wellbeing in a way that pulls in people’s intuitive sense along with the reality that life is full of challenges. We define wellbeing as feeling good, struggling well, and functioning effectively.
We believe thriving can be supported through individuals, relationships, groups, organizations and the community. We also use the PERMAH framework, which is an acronym from both Seligman’s model of PERMA with the addition of H to indicate the importance of health. PERMAH represents Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment, and Health as a framework for wellbeing.
The Midland Area Wellbeing Coalition is supported by the Community Success Panel. The coordinator is Kathy Snyder and the leadership team consists of Maureen Donker (Midland Mayor & Councilman Ward 2), Bridgette Gransden (Administrator/Controller for the County of Midland) , Holly Miller (Executive Director of United Way of Midland County), Sharon Mortensen (Executive Director of Midland Area Community Foundation), and Beverlee Wenzel (Executive Director of The ROCK Center for Youth Development).
Email: [email protected] if you are interested in joining the coalition.
We are stronger together!
“Wellbeing is your ability to feel good and function effectively!”
Professor Felicia Huppert
Martin Seligman and others found that the PERMAH framework is an easy way for people to understand, measure, and take action around the well-established, evidence-based elements of wellbeing.
Wellbeing Life Hacks are simple evidence-based ways to build wellbeing and are accessible to everyone! Built around a wellbeing model of PERMAH, each Wellbeing Life Hack will build a different component of wellbeing: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment, and Health.
Tina Queary shares a Life Hack in Action: Start Your Day Your Way
Tara Welch shares a Life Hack in Action: Engage with Nature
McKenna Burns shares a Life Hack in Action: Create a Bedtime Routine
