Colour Me Happy Workshop 

The workshop was constructed to help enable and empower diverse communities to increase their wellbeing through mindful practice. The PERMA evidence-based model (Seligman, 2018) is used throughout this workshop for participants to actively engage in wellbeing practice. Participants use creativity and fun to dig deeper into their personal wellbeing and enhance it. 

• Activities that participants do include; 

• Creating space to understand what brings feelings of positivity 

• Asking the reader to dive into what brings them meaning

• Planning goals... and more

The workshop is divided into 3 parts (photos below).

Workshops last 2-4 hours, depending on the organisation's aims.

The Colour Me Happy workbook also aims to educate communities around environmental and social sustainability while empowering them to become confident in themselves and responsible stewards of the earth. This is because research has shown that our wellbeing as people is inextricably linked to the wellbeing of our planet. However, in spite of the many calls for change, it has been a challenge to get action on a large scale. Besides the actions that governments and organisations must take, individual actions will contribute to making a difference.

Colour Me Happy activities aim to clarify the link between individual and community wellbeing. The workbook takes us through the PERMA wellbeing model first described by Dr. Martin Seligman (*) and encourages us to use our imagination and determination to touch the world we live in, hence our wellness, positively.

Included in the workbook are a number of digitised drawings of Yaniv’s paintings for you to colour or paint, along with 'taking action' pages that prompt you to think about what steps you will take toward increasing each wellbeing domain.

So go on, take a mindful moment for yourself to be creative and reflect on what YOUR next actions could be to increase your wellbeing.

Sneak Peak of Colour Me Happy Book

Testimonials 

‘I want to say again Yaniv, the Colour Me Happy class is outstanding! The way this class brings people together over a series of weeks for social interaction while learning is just perfect’ 

Selwyn Cook, Facilitator, Disability Employment [video above]

Selwyn won the 2014 Attitude ACC Employer Award, 2015 Diversity Works Diversability award, City of Hamilton Civic award for Community, People and Wellbeing, and the 2016 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Local Hero.

(*) Martin Seligman (2018) PERMA and the building blocks of wellbeing, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 13:4, 333-335.

Two Colour Me Happy workshops were carried out at Turanga, Christchurch City Council: one for staff and one for mainstream audience: See below the participants' feedback after the workshops.

Justice got lots of ideas and help, including an offer to mentor her, from participants. She comments that she learnt about herself and will take her learning to her community and to help future generations coming through.

This Communications Team enjoyed the outcome of the workshop - some (albeit too short!) mindfulness moments, the relaxation brought about by the activity, the opportunity to reconnect with our creative selves and some awesome new collaborations and sharing of ideas... team building and more!