Tenth annual Wellbeing Symposium—Living the values in tertiary education
Join with students, staff, and wellbeing experts to explore how values-based practice can foster wellbeing in our community.
Victoria University of Wellington’s annual Wellbeing Symposium is for students, staff (academic and professional), and anyone working to improve wellbeing in tertiary education.
This year’s symposium invites you to join us in exploring how we as an educational organisation can embody our written core values and bring these to life in the way we collaborate and support our community.
How we treat each other has a great impact on our health and wellbeing. We encourage people living, working, and studying in our community to understand and practise the University’s core ethical values—respect, responsibility, fairness, integrity, and empathy.
These values are manifested in our commitment to civic engagement, sustainability, inclusivity, equity, diversity, and openness.
But what does this look like in practice? How can we share these values with staff and students, and walk the talk together as a community?
Join us for a day of discussion and collaboration with a range of wellbeing experts from our academic, professional, and student community. Together, we can build a better understanding of how we can improve the way we live these values.
This tenth annual gathering also serves as an opportunity for wider connection and collaboration around the ever more important issue of our health and wellbeing.
Access the symposium’s full schedule:symposium-schedule.pdf
Keynote address: ‘What the heck is a ‘value’ anyway?’ with Professor Marc Wilson, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington
While there has been a recent movement towards the use of values to inform institutional behaviour, practice, and strategy, the notion of 'values' has a much longer philosophical and, since the early 1900s, psychological track record. In his keynote address, Professor Marc Wilson will explore what we mean when we talk about 'values' and how they relate to our everyday lives, and what it means to ‘live our values’ in higher education, therapeutic contexts, and daily practice. Along the way, Professor Marc Wilson will share value profiles drawn from his research with thousands of New Zealanders, and you will have space to reflect on your own values.
Screening of documentary One Day Ahead
This year’s symposium will include a screening of the documentary One Day Ahead, which follows eight New Zealand amateur cyclists, including Victoria Business School’s Dr John Randal, attempting to complete the 2018 Tour de France race a day ahead of the
professional race to raise money and awarenss for the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand.