Wellness and Wellbeing
Wellness & Wellbeing at Wartburg is our commitment to proactively support you in optimizing your overall health, and live your most vibrant and purposeful life.
CONNECT to your own dedicated
Wellbeing Partner and meet up routinely to:
- Enjoy an explorative conversation to reflect on What Matters to you today
- Clarify your current priorities and life aims
- Be connected to resources or opportunities
that support your life and health priorities - Have an opportunity to create your own “Best
Life” plan. - Express interest you have to meaningfully contribute to the Wartburg community.
SHAPE programming by sharing your lifestyle interests and health priorities with us.
ENGAGE in group program offerings focused
on taking charge of your health and wellbeing
Come and See What Wartburg Has to Offer!
HOW IT WORKS
Through the Wartburg Wellness & Wellbeing initiative, we invite you to clarify and articulate What Matters Most in life today, and be proactively supported in staying connected to the unique drivers of meaning and purpose in your life.
- Taking time to understand your values, preferences, and current priorities in life & health
- Supporting you to stay connected to the people, experiences, and pursuits that bring joy, contentment, satisfaction and accomplishment.
- Providing you with opportunities to proactively address current and future health needs – empowering you to stay in the “driver’s seat of life” as you age.
- Continuously evolving Wartburg‘s services and programs based on What Matters to you and other residents.
WHY IT'S IMPORTANT
Research demonstrates that having a
strong sense of meaning and purpose in
our daily life...
- leads to better health outcomes
- promotes better cognitive functioning
- can slow certain diseases and
disabilities - is correlated to a longer life
Living a full and meaningful life is possible at any age. For most of us, that means clarifying our own priorities, intentions, resources, needs, and creating a realistic plan of action.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND LIVING A GOOD LIFE
Our Wellness & Wellbeing practices and related programs are anchored in a scientifically validated model of wellbeing was established by Dr. Martin Seligman of University of Pennsylvania, known as the “Father of Positive Psychology.”
An adapted version of PERMA is summarized below and includes "H" for Health. Experiencing POSITIVE emotions such as joy, hope, love, humor, awe and gratitude.
Regular ENGAGEMENT in activities that align with our personal values and strengths and bring us deep satisfaction.
Having RELATIONSHIPS that nourish us – connections that make us feel loved and valued by others.
Experiencing MEANING in everyday life – the sense of belonging to a greater cause, or serving something greater than ourselves.
Having a feeling of ACCOMPLISHMENT that comes from the perseverance to attain goals – big or small.
Maintaining a level of HEALTH in our body and mind that enables us to engage in life in a satisfying way.