Well-Being
certificate
The Lark’s Song Well-Being Certificate is a 32-hour evidence-based training program to increase well-being. This training is delivered in-person over two weekends, virtually over 16 weeks, or in a hybrid format over 6 afternoons and 12 hours of independent online learning.
The seven facets of well-being are Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Achievement, Mindfulness, and Embodiment.
There are specific, evidence-based interventions that drastically impact and increase our fulfillment and flourishing. We want to equip you to share them with the communities and spaces that matter most to you.
When well-being education is introduced into education systems and classrooms, the overall well-being of the students and faculty go up. This increase in well-being also increases academic success, decreases anxiety and depression, and increases clarity around life purpose. When well-being initiatives are introduced in workplaces, employee satisfaction and engagement goes up and turnover goes down.
IN-PERSON: TWO 2-DAY WEEKENDS
In this four (4) day format, your cohort of participants will engage in 4 eight hour days of live group learning with 2 hours of on-your-own virtual learning before the first live training and 2 hours before the second live training.
Participants that complete the training will understand how to increase well-being in their life, in the lives of others, and how to integrate that learning into their life and work.
TWO Well-Being
Certificate Options:
WILLOW COHORT
at The Wellife in Canton, OH
This cohort is for anyone and everyone
that can get to The Wellife from 8:00 AM-5:00 PM the following dates.
March 22-23, 2025 (Sat/Sun)
April 12-13, 2025 (Sat/Sun)
Xizhe, Len, and Katara from the Cedar cohort.
PLANTAIN COHORT
at Westminster South in Marion, IN
This cohort is for parents of 0-5 year olds in Grant County Indiana. Participation costs have been fully funded, so qualifying participants can attend for no cost - select the “Parent Scholarship” option on your enrollment form. Join us on the following from 10:00 AM-3:00 PM on the following Saturdays.*
April 5, 2025
May 17, 2025
June 21, 2025
July 12, 2025
Aug 23, 2025
Sept 20, 2025
*Childcare provided.
HYBRID: SIX 4-HOUR DAYS IN-PERSON and 12 HOURS OF INDEPENDENT ONLINE LEARNING.
In this format, you get the best of both worlds, shorter in-person live group learning over 6 afternoons - once per month - with 2 hours of independent online learning and connection with your accountability pod for continuity and ongoing application.
MUGWORT COHORT
at Lark’s Song in Marion, IN
This cohort is for early childhood educators in Grant County Indiana. Participation costs have been fully funded, so qualifying participants can attend for no cost - select the “Early Childhood Educator Scholarship” option on your enrollment form. Join us on the following dates from 8:00 AM-5:00 PM.
April 18-19, 2025 (Fri/Sat)
May 2-3, 2025 (Fri/Sat)
full program outline with learning objectives as a PDF here.
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.
Pay what you can.
Come as you are.
We, as the facilitators, commit to give what we can afford to give in labor, expertise, presence, and resource. We promise to give these things respectfully and generously, in a manner that supports your fulfillment and flourishing, as we are given the strength and capacity to do so.
And we invite you, as the participants, to give what you can afford to give - a contribution that feels respectful and generous to you. We invite you to give reciprocally in a manner that supports the fulfillment and flourishing of our work.
We know that if we give from a place of abundance, the resources we need to receive will be provided too. One of the biggest obstacles to our common flourishing is economic disparity and injustice. We all have spaces of abundance and spaces of poverty, and we trust that you will honor the value of this certificate program by bringing what you can to it.
The economic cost of this workshop to us is $600.00 per person. Use the contact form below to let us know that you’d like to attend or host a Well-Being Certificate cohort. We will contact you personally to assign you to your cohort and invoice you for your contribution.
Suggested Level of Contribution
$750
I am flourishing and want the same for you.
$600
I am fulfilled and comfortable and want the same for you.
Less than $600
I am requesting a full or partial financial scholarship and am dedicated to utilizing my learning in a generous manner for our common flourishing.