Wellbeing manifesto

A Global Wellbeing Manifesto for a Thriving World

What follows is an example of what a wellbeing manifesto might look like, with links through to the actual document so that you can comment.

Foreword

This is the time for us all to realise a new, better way of living.

The need for change is being driven by the many challenges we face including climate change, loss of species, scarce resources, a growing and ageing population, falling levels of trust, growing inequalities, the threat of more pandemics, mass migration and increasing tensions between nations, largely resulting from a combination of these factors.

However, we also have a fantastic ability to change and the potential to solve our problems has never been greater. This is based on three powerful drivers:

Knowledge – we know more than we’ve ever known. It is estimated that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last few decades
Technology – developments in all areas can help solve some of our most pressing problems
Rising levels of global consciousness about the interconnectedness of the wellbeing of people and planet can help direct our efforts and provide the motivation for behaviour change

This powerful combination of knowledge, technology and global consciousness provide us with the opportunity to shape a fantastic future for generations to come. By changing our thinking about what constitutes success we can rise to higher standards of living and create a thriving future for the human race, wildlife and the wider natural world.

This Manifesto is provided as a ‘framework’ for policymakers and leaders across the world to shape this new fantastic future. This ‘framework’ is not designed to be rigid. The way societies organise themselves will differ depending on their unique circumstances.

However, there is more that connects us than sets us apart. In this respect the domains of wellbeing, which we outline below, are common to all. Whether you look at wellbeing from an individual, organisational, community, national or international level, these domains map out the territories of our lives.

Our vision

In this context our vision is A world where people and planet thrive.

A description of what thriving might look and feel like is provided across the eight domains of wellbeing in the diagram below.

To provide greater clarity around this vision we will establish the following goals in line with the eight domains of our lives:

We are creative and imaginative
We feel at ease with ourselves and each other
We are physically vital
We are spiritually fulfilled
We are socially engaged
We are living in cultural harmony
We are living in flourishing environments
We are economically prosperous

To achieve these goals we will need to transform as individuals, organisations, communities, and as nations. The following pages describe what these changes will look like.

‘Wellism’ as the new operating model

In order to achieve this vision we will need a new operating model. Existing ‘operating models’ include ‘capitalism’, ‘socialism’, ‘communism’ and variations of these concepts. However, we know that these can be improved on. Overproduction, underproduction, failing to take account of externalities, such as carbon emissions, growing inequalities, complacency and lack of motivation are all criticisms thrown at these models. In a world where resources are finite, the population is growing, the climate is changing, and less and less people believe the system is working for them, these are all criticisms that we cannot afford to bear any longer.

We will move to a new ‘wellism’ operating model which is an evolution and extrapolation of existing models putting the wellbeing of people, other species and the planet at its heart. The differences and similarities between these models are explored in the table below.

	Wellism	Capitalism	Socialism	Communism
How the system orientates individuals	– Me, We, World- Interconnectedness- Rights and responsibilities	– Me- Individualism- Rights	– We- Collectivism- Responsibilities	– We- Collectivism- Responsibilities
System goals	Wellbeing of people, species and planet	Competition, profit and growth	Social equality	Social equality
System of government	Pragmatic	Democratic	Democratic	Autocratic
System economy	– Private and/or Public ownership- Distributed governance (global, national, regional)- Distributed wealth and wellbeing based on fairness. Individual needs and efforts- Free trade	– Private ownership- Limited Gov’t involvement- Free market determines winners and losers. – Concentrated wealth based on an individual’s efforts	– Mostly public ownership- High Gov’t involvement- Distributed wealth based on an individual’s efforts	– State ownership- Gov’t led economy- Distributed wealth based on an individuals needs
System approach to resource management	– International cooperation- International management of the commons- Determined by contribution to wellbeing	– National focus- National management of the commons- Determined by supply and demand	– National focus- National management of the commons- Government determines	– National focus- National management of the commons- Government determines
System taxation	Taxing what isn’t good for us such as carbon, excessive wealth, products that lead to poor health	Low taxation, poorly targeted	Progressive taxation, poorly targeted	– In its purest form communism requires no taxation as everything is owned and distributed by the state. However, the reality is more complex in modern communist states such as China.
System measures of success	Higher levels of wellbeing	GDP growth	– GDP	– Net Material Product (GDP)
System criticisms	None. We haven’t tried it yet!	– Inequalities of wealth- Waste due to lack of central control of resources- Market failures	– Inefficiencies- Lack of competition leads to complacency	– Inefficiencies- Lack of competition leads to complacency

A comparison of wellism, capitalism and communism

This new system will help provide the conditions to enable all people to thrive. This is important. The greatest transformation will be realised when individual motivations to change are supported by the systems within which they live. Where systems and individuals are at loggerheads change will be stifled.

However, we cannot rely on the system alone. It is the ‘players’ within the system, you and I, that actually execute the game plan.

For this reason we provide a vision of individual, educational, organisational, community and governmental wellbeing (‘the players’) to which we can work in the following links:

Vision summary

We’re approaching a “critical point” in regard to the wellbeing of both our species and the planet as a whole, and we need to change quickly. But there is hope. We can change. It is not yet too late to turn things around.

The biggest challenge we face is not re-landing on the Moon or travelling to Mars, attractive and glamorous as these concepts are. The biggest challenge we face is changing ourselves.

But how to do it? The UN Sustainable Development Goals can help us survive perhaps, but they are insufficient to deliver thriving in our future world. And we all want to thrive, not merely survive.

To thrive we need to change the way we THINK, FEEL and ACT as well as our social, cultural, environmental and economic systems. To deliver this will require consistent, long term, synchronised change by individuals, communities, organisations and governments. No one element can be expected to change successfully on it’s own. And the best way to do that is to focus on wellbeing.

Wellbeing is malleable in the hands of those that work towards it and provides people of differing nations, religions, cultures, political beliefs and personalities with a unifying vision of a ‘thriving world for all’. It provides us with a common will, language, and understanding of the steps that can take us towards this vision with strategies to shift from surviving to thriving across all eight domains of wellbeing: mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, social, cultural, environmental and economic.

Our mission – what we want to do.

Improving the quality of lives of people across the world in balance with other species and the planet.

Our values

Whilst we are all unique there is more that is common between us as individuals, and across cultures, than sets us apart. We can see this represented in the work of Schwartz (Theory of Human Values), Seligman et al (Character strengths), Maslow (Hierarchy of needs), Max Neefs’ (Theory of Fundamental Human Needs) and numerous research studies that have begun to determine what helps us build wellbeing.

The next step in our evolution is one of Transcendence. This is where we design societies which balance the needs of me, we and the world.

As such we propose the following values to unite us all:

Autonomy – policies should be designed to give individuals freedom of choice and opportunities for self enhancement where this has no detrimental consequence to the welfare of other people, species or the planet. Emphasis should be given to rights and responsibilities, with power gifted to where it is needed.
Connection – policies should be designed to help people connect and feel like they belong through both their involvement in policy development and the outcome of the policies themselves.
Imagination – policies should be designed with creativity, curiosity and a sense of exploration. We should test novel ideas, push at the boundaries, accept mistakes and keep making progress.
Fairness – policies should be designed to provide equal opportunities and justice for all and seek to remedy unjust actions from the past.
Resilience – policies should be designed to provide security, safety, harmony and stability for both current and future generations.

Principles and Policies

This following section provides examples of principles and policies to take us towards this world where we can all thrive, but it in no way should be seen as conclusive. Different regions will require unique solutions to their specific situations. However, we do believe that these principles and policies can act as a guiding framework from which to build on.

The policies and principles have been organised by the wellbeing domain to which they have greatest relevance, in our opinion. However, it should be noted that these policies are interconnected and help to build on each other. For example, free education focused on developing wellbeing will help build capabilities across all areas of our lives.

Mental wellbeing

Mental wellbeing is the ability to manage our thoughts so we can respond effectively to the ups and downs of everyday life.

Goal: to create a society with greater creativity and less mental distress

Free education for all throughout life refocused on developing wellbeing including better thinking, mindfulness, building esteem, growth mindset and creativity
A national programme for the development of good mental health
Development of higher level standards and scrutiny in the workplace focused on preventing mental health issues before ‘curing’ them
- Policies to give employees more choice about when and where they work, encouraging a focus on output rather than productivity, providing greater protection for the vulnerable and low paid
- Providing employees with a greater voice and scrutiny of employers that fail to engage employees
- Greater scrutiny of excessive mental work demands being placed on employees. For example, tasks requiring complex decision-making or high concentration and at the other end of the scale where employees are expected to complete mundane repetitive tasks without any provision for variation.

Emotional wellbeing

Emotional wellbeing is the ability to manage our response to feelings and emotions so we can deal effectively with the ups and downs of everyday life.

Goal: To create a society where we feel more at ease with ourselves and each other

Education refocused on developing wellbeing including emotional intelligence
A national programme for the development of good emotional health
Development of higher level standards and then greater scrutiny of excessive emotional work demands being placed on employees for example in the health, caring and public service industries where employees often experience difficult emotions like sadness, fear, or anger.
Promotion of International peace and justice

Physical wellbeing

Physical wellbeing is the ability to manage our body, actions and behaviours so we can deal effectively with the ups and downs of everyday life.

Goal: To create a society where we are physically vital

We will create a healthier society based on promoting good health and preventing ill health
- Education refocused on developing wellbeing including diet, exercise, relaxation and sleep
- A national programme for the development of good physical health
- Diet
  - An overall shift towards a more plant based diet balancing economic, environmental and social considerations
  - Improved education including the growing of food in schools
  - Stricter food standards
  - Working with agriculture and local communities to expand the diversity of food production
- Exercise
  - Established levels of activity in schools
  - Encouragement for greater levels of activity in the workplace
  - Designed into the built environment and infrastructure development
- Sleep
  - Greater understanding of the importance of good sleep
  - Designed into the built environment and infrastructure development
- Relaxation
  - Greater understanding of the importance of relaxation
  - More relaxation areas in built environment and infrastructure development
Greater scrutiny of excessive physical work demands being placed on employees, for example, where employees are exposed to prolonged or intense physical effort or risk-taking.
A revision away from drugs to healthier prescriptions

Spiritual wellbeing

The quality of our spiritual wellbeing is based on things that relate to our spirit or soul such as character, personality, beliefs, values and motivations rather than material or physical things.

We will build pride, belief, motivation and purpose through helping individuals, organisations, communities and our nation understand who we are and the role we play in the world.

Goal: To create a society where we are spiritually fulfilled.

Education refocused on developing wellbeing through exploring self (including character, personality, beliefs, values), building motivation, personal growth and purpose.
A national campaign to promote the importance and understanding of spirituality
We will generate pride in what our nation stands for, our identity and our place in supporting other nations of the world.

Social wellbeing

Social wellbeing is based on our ability to establish connections, relate to and maintain positive relationships with other people.

Goal: To create a society where people are socially engaged

Education refocused on developing wellbeing through friendship, teamwork, trust, support and empowerment
We will rebuild trust through our vision for a better world, open and honest communication, developing greater support networks and through inspiring leadership
We will devolve power to local communities enabling them to budget for and deliver the services and support they need across each of the eight domains of wellbeing.
We will look after a growing and ageing population.
Where we see things aren’t fair we will work to improve fairness for all.
We will tackle loneliness and ensure our communities are diverse and inclusive.

Cultural wellbeing

Cultural wellbeing is based on the freedom to live life the way we want. Our ‘way of life’ includes things such as traditions, religion, art, music, food, our language, governance and technology.

Goal: To create a society where people live in cultural harmony

Education refocused on developing wellbeing through way of life, good governance, creating a sense of belonging, diversity, inclusion and integration
Governance
- We will collaborate with other parties to co-create policies that stand the test of time regardless of which party is in power.
- We will reorganise our governance systems to reflect the delivery of wellbeing outcomes
- Subsidiarity. We will distribute powers both up and down.
  - In respect to global issues we will seek to give more power to co-ordinated international responses from the United Nations.
  - At the national level we will be selectively interventionist.
  - Within jurisdiction we will introduce a devolved system, empowering local governance structures as required.
- Fairer voting systems. Replacing First Past the Post systems with Proportional Representation in parliamentary and local government elections
- Fully elected and diverse political representation that reflects the population
- Greater involvement of citizen assemblies to inform specific policy design
Law & justice
- We will focus on restorative justice
- We will review and update outdated legislation.
  - End indefinite detention
  - Drug use and misuse
  - Animal protection
Technology
- We will use technology more effectively to engage people in the governance process
Media
- Whilst respecting the right to freedom of speech we will also promote the responsibility of speaking the truth. As such we will impose stricter rules on the media to discourage fake news, provocative, biased reporting and encourage more fact based, rational coverage.
- Laws to ensure media ownership is monitored and the influence of powerful individuals controlled.
- Introduction of stricter legislation and independent regulation for social media companies.
Diversity and inclusion
- Migration
  - All people should be allowed to move freely. With this freedom comes responsibility. In order to move people must provide identification. We will lobby for a ‘voluntary’ global identification system that enables people to move should they wish.
- Protect the rights and promote the responsibilities of all people across:
  - Demographic diversities: age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class and status
  - Experiential diversities: place, religion, ability, interests and politics
  - Cognitive diversities: educational attainment and personality type
- Introduce stricter monitoring and legislation for hate crimes both on and offline
- We will work to increase the integration of different groups within workplaces, communities and other institutions. Whilst we recognise that ‘birds of a feather flock together’ segmentation only serves to continue the misunderstanding and mistrust amongst different groups.
Food
- Within the overarching aim of ‘nutritious diets for all’ we will encourage a greater diversity in our food supply to ensure security and enable richer experiences for people.
- Encouragement for more local production of food
- We will remove food waste
Tradition
- We will preserve traditions and indigenous knowledge seeking to learn from the best of our past and combine this with current knowledge to deliver a better future.
Language
- We will preserve the richness and diversity of languages whilst recognising that common language can be very useful for helping us all communicate more effectively.
Religion
- We will respect the rights of all individuals to their own personal beliefs whilst upholding the responsibility of those same individuals to respect others.
Art, Music & Leisure
- We will encourage active participation in cultural events

Environmental wellbeing

The quality of our environmental wellbeing is based on the bi-directional impact between us, our spaces and places, other species and the planet.

Goal: To live in flourishing environments

Education will expose learners to nature, develop sympathetic cultivation of the environment, explain the role of our spaces in forging relationships and renewing our vitality.
We will create greater accessibility to spaces where people can build back love and affinity with nature and the environment through a national programme of events and communication

We will fulfill our responsibilities to reduce climate change, biodiversity loss and other key challenges faced by the human race and ensure we hit all targets agreed.

We will improve mitigation, adaptation and resilience to climate change.

We will renew our environments where they have been degraded.

We will reduce the risks of future pandemics.

We will improve the quality of our built environments to provide unique, expressive environments with strong identities that encourage exploration, excitement and belonging.

In addition to these overarching aims for the environment we will introduce the following more specific policies.

Infrastructure
- Transport
  - A wellbeing transport revolution
    - Investment in public transport infrastructure including cheap, safe and inspiring trains, buses, cycleways and footpaths to ensure all people can move freely and safely
    - An cap on air miles with an air mile market to enable trading. Strict management of airport expansion and a ban on flights such as short haul where less carbon intensive public transport is available. Investment provided to airlines research into carbon free fuel alternatives.
    - Phase out fossil fuel cars. Discouragement of private car use with investment into electric and autonomous vehicle network
- Digital network
  - Universal and affordable accessibility to the internet
  - Work to support one world, one internet. Establishment of an overarching governance mechanism
  - Sensible privacy legislation
Energy
- Responsibly accelerate the replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy
- Stricter management of oil exploration
- Greater investment in nuclear fusion and other potential solutions to our energy problems. Provide universal access to clean, affordable and reliable energy services.
Housing and built infrastructure
- A review of planning to ensure the approach to the development of urban, peri-urban and rural areas is resilient and optimised for balancing the wellbeing of people, other species and the planet. As such the approach will consider environmental, social and economic factors across all eight domains of wellbeing.
- Introduction of wellbeing focused building standards for construction, renovation and conversion including:
  - Higher standards for air quality, ventilation and pollutants including smoke and carbon monoxide
  - Higher standards for water quality and systems including heating, cooling and irrigation
  - Higher standards for lighting
  - Improved design to encourage greater movement and physical activity
  - Improved standards for temperature control including insulation, heating and energy efficiency
  - Improved standards for noise
  - Higher standards for material use and sustainability of building construction including use of local materials where possible and greater resource efficiency.
  - Higher standards to reflect the impact of the built environment on all aspects of wellbeing including accessibility, mental health, inclusion and our ability to build community
- Support for more creative ways of living to provide an exciting. affordable and accessible housing stock including co-housing, seasteading, portable, self build and other forms of habitation.
- Protection and safeguarding of the world’s cultural and natural heritage
Ecosystems & biodiversity – We will reduce our environmental footprint and regenerate our ecological systems.
- Reforestation, rewilding and regenerative farming
- Restoration of natural landscapes, habitats and species in urban, suburban and countryside environments
- A ban on the most harmful pesticides
- Stricter penalties and monitoring of pollution
- Introduce laws to prevent crimes against nature and the environment
- Investment in carbon sinks
- Protection of marine life and waters
- Review animal welfare legislation

Economic wellbeing

The quality of our economy can be measured by how well our needs across all domains of wellbeing are being satisfied in balance with other people, species and the planet.

Goal: We are economically prosperous

Our economies will be built on the principle of Thrift. Careful, prudent saving and investment focused on thriving, not miserly austerity or excessive over spending beyond our means. We will build better quality lives that don’t cost the earth.

Education will help learners to develop a better appreciation of financial and household management with the principles of thrift central to this. Positive contribution, fairness, integrity and the wellbeing economy will also form part of the curriculum.
We will establish a wellbeing economy and budgetary process
- Introduce a set of national wellbeing accounts using measures across each of the eight wellbeing domains.
- We will play our part in creating a global, harmonised accounting framework which defines relevant terms of the Wellbeing Economy and provides globally harmonised indicators.
- We will play our part in establishing a global database of resources available for sustainable consumption by the human race. When we know ‘what’s in the cupboard’ we can plan our use much more effectively. This may include placing limits on resource use.
Business and organisations
- We will establish a mandatory wellbeing audit and disclosure in alignment with these new national accounts, including measures across all eight domains of wellbeing, for all businesses and organisations. Organisations, their services and products, will be measured on contribution to net wellbeing and we will seek to grow activity in organisations that can contribute more and either shrink or cease activity in organisations that can’t. This will take us beyond sustainability, which is largely focused on survival, to wellbeing, which is focused on thriving.
- Establishment of an innovation fund to encourage development of alternative, less carbon intensive, and higher net wellbeing solutions.
- Greater support for local entrepreneurship through access to finance, business support and reduction of bureaucracy.
Goods and services
- Standardisation and simplification of all measurements and labelling in alignment with the national wellbeing audit.
- In line with the mandatory wellbeing audit, goods and services must be shown to be contributing to net wellbeing, incorporating responsible production, promotion, consumption, sustainability and circular ‘closed loop’ business practice.
- Where required we will introduce incentives and/or taxation to encourage greater consumption of goods and services that deliver higher wellbeing over their lower quality alternatives. This could include areas such as transport (car sharing, public transport), food (offering plant based meat alternatives), housing (smaller more sustainable housing or alternative more sustainable ways of living), consumer goods (higher taxation on luxury goods), energy (incentives for renewable energy consumption)
- The introduction and support of shared services and resources will be encouraged. For example, local libraries of products that are often underused or repair centres attached to waste facilities so that items being discarded can be assessed for opportunities to re-use, repair and, only then, recycle.
Contribution & learning
- We will re-define the concept of ‘work’ to recognise and support a wider set of ‘contributions’ including volunteering, care and unpaid activities. We will encourage everyone to contribute to the wellbeing of others wherever possible.
- We will focus on providing higher quality opportunities for individuals to contribute by shifting ‘work’ to areas that deliver higher levels of wellbeing.
- All people will have access to free training and skills development
- A focus on contribution to wellbeing with a greater emphasis on employers offering flexible hours, location and contribution patterns where this is possible.
- We will introduce the new concept of ‘transcendence’ to replace retirement and capture the wisdom of ageing contributors. As contributors transcend they will reduce hours and increasingly act as mentors, coaches and guides for the younger population. Transcendence will be supported socially to ensure quality of life.
Finance
- We will establish a mandatory wellbeing audit and disclosure, in alignment with the new national accounts, including an assessment of risks and opportunities across all eight domains of wellbeing, for all financial institutions. Investment decisions will be made on potential contribution to net wellbeing.
- Access to finance will be available for all on fair terms.
- We will not shy away from digital currencies and de-centralised finance but rapidly explore its potential to help distribute wealth and wellbeing.
Income, Taxation and Subsidies
- A tax system based on taxing more of what we don’t want (unethical and poor business practice, excessive wealth, pollution, carbon emissions, poor health) rather than what we do (income and prosperity, renewal, clean energy, good health)
  - Fair pay for all to reduce gaps between any groups
  - Abolition of income, land and property tax
  - Introduction of an annual progressive wealth tax (incorporating savings, investments, property, land and other assets that contribute to an individual’s overall net wealth)
  - Introduction of a carbon tax
  - Introduction of a pollution tax
  - Clamping down on individual and corporation tax avoidance
  - Support the establishment of a more robust, co-ordinated and fair global taxation system
  - Reduction and removal of subsidies for activities that do not deliver net wellbeing.
  - Introduction of subsidies for goods and services that do deliver net wellbeing. This will encourage purchase where goods are potentially more expensive than their lower quality (lower wellbeing) alternatives.
Social security
- Universal Services (US). As outlined throughout this manifesto everyone should expect accessibility to the following services based on their needs and not on their ability to pay. Health and social care, education, housing, childcare, digital access and transport.
- As part of Universal Services we will also provide a Guaranteed Income (GI) above minimum subsistence and supplemented, where required, to incorporate existing benefits, ensuring that no person is worse off under this system.
- This combination of US and GI will provide a safety net and realise the potential of the greatest number of people in our society.
Contributors rights and responsibilities
- A more balanced review to protect the rights and promote the responsibilities of people’s contributions
Artificial Intelligence and Automation
- Artificial Intelligence is developing without the appropriate legislation or understanding. We will ensure safe boundaries are established and then seek to invest heavily in getting the most value from what it has to offer.
- Where mundane and routine tasks can be automated to enable people to take on more valuable work this is good. We will set up a public automation fund to invest heavily and ensure that where jobs are automated income is distributed to the public and not overly concentrated in private hands.
Private and Public
- Health and social care
  - Universal, publicly provided healthcare free at the point of delivery
  - An ultimate aim of reducing the burden on health services through a prevention rather than cure approach
- Police and security
  - Through a focus on wellbeing in our education, communities, workplaces and at a national level we will, over time, reduce levels of crime and aim for lower levels of budgetary resources required to support policing and security.
- Justice
  - Through a focus on wellbeing in our education, communities, workplaces and at a national level we will, over time, reduce levels of crime and increase fairness with expected lower levels of budgetary resources required to support Justice.
- Fire and rescue
  - Publicly provided services focused on prevention.
- Defense
  - We will work towards unilateral disarmament and repositioning our ‘armed forces’ as ‘peace corps’ recognising our right to protect ourselves, but with a mission to spread peace.
Local versus Global
- Where goods and services can be provided locally they should be. However, there is also room for global distribution where this can be proven to add to the net wellbeing of society. Assessments will be made, using the wellbeing audit framework, and distribution refined based on outcomes.
International cooperation
- Where debts can be written off we will do so.
- We will create a fair international aid budget recognising our wealth and impact on climate change. In addition to financing this cooperation we will seek to transfer knowledge and resources that build bridges between nations.
- We will revisit our approach to the global commons (air, land, sea, water, space, internet) and how they are managed for the benefit of humankind.
- Promote free trade that contributes to the net wellbeing of participating nations. As such trade deals will be assessed across the eight domains of wellbeing.

Measuring success

We will agree on a range of measures across the eight domains of wellbeing. The benefit of using this framework is that individual, organisational, community, regional and national measures can be aligned so that patterns and trends can be assessed. These measures will be:

Quantitative and qualitative to measure both objective hard data and also the subjective lived experience of people.
Both top down and bottom up. Whilst more internationally recognised measures will enable comparisons between different regions and nations there is also scope for more locally derived measures that may be more representative of the unique characteristics of the place and people in question.
Outcome and action orientated.
Focused and broad. We will include both specific indicators that enable measurement in specific domains (mental wellbeing, for example) and broader measures that give a bigger picture view across domains (satisfaction with life, for example)
Prioritised to reflect that there is no economy without society and no society without our planet. Emphasis will therefore be given to Environmental, Social and Economic indicators in that order.

Examples of some of the types of measures that will be included are outlined in the table below:

At the international level these measures will also be correlated with the UN Sustainable Development Goals as outlined in the following table:

A world where we can all thrive

This manifesto has set out a case for putting wellbeing at the heart of our thinking as individuals, organisations, communities and as nations.

It has presented wellism as an progressive next step on from capitalism, socialism and communism in our human journey to a system that empowers all people, species and the planet to thrive.

It is also honest in recognising that the challenges of our time require systemic transformation of the way we live so that we are in harmony with other people and the planet.

We believe that the combination of these changes can lead us into a new age of better living. They can take us into ‘The Age of Wellbeing’