At Lark’s Song, we assess well-being based on seven facets that we refer to as PERMA+ME. These seven facets include 1) positive emotion, 2) engagement, 3) relationships, 4) meaning, 5) achievement, 6) mindfulness, and 7) embodiment. Each facet has undergone rigorous research in multiple fields of discipline. We now have not only a solid theoretical understanding of well-being; but also, well researched and effective well-being interventions that when applied to our lives increase human flourishing across the board.

These increases in well-being lead to improved life satisfaction, decreases in depression and anxiety, increases in efficacy and effectiveness in school and work, and so much more.

While adult and child well-being has been increasing overall across the past ten years, there is a huge gap between available well-being services, tools, and resources and accessibility to those resources by the people without the economic stability required to get or maintain connection to these resources. There are also staggering disparities and inequities in the accessibility of well-being services for African American, American Indian, and Latino populations. The injustice of these disparities and the suffering it creates only becomes more and more apparent.

We are strongly and unapologetically focused on providing increased well-being for all! We realize that we cannot do that alone and that the work needs to be done quickly. So we created the Well-Being Certificate as a way to multiply accessibility to well-being resources for your homes, schools, congregations, places of work, and other spaces of belonging.

Fall 2024 Registration is Open!