Measuring happiness: how to put well-being at the heart of the community
A wellnet  event - the Well London learning network

Agenda
9.30-10am	Registration and refreshments
10am	Welcome, outline of event and housekeeping – Samantha Heath, London Sustainability Exchange 
10.05am	Happily measuring happiness and well-being – Nicola Steuer, new economics foundation
10.20am	Questions and answers
10.35am	Introduction to Well London and Well London mental health and well-being projects - Sherry Clark, SLAM
10.45	Questions and answers

Exercise
Step 1: Delegates are asked to get into groups of 3 and discuss how their projects meet aspects of well-being as set out in the nef Well-being postcard* (connect / be active / take notice / keep learning / give). 
You should then write your project title on the post-it note.
Step 2: Then please go to the appropriate poster and choose one of the selected national indicators** that could apply to your project. 
	Write your specified NI number and how it might apply to your project post-it note.
A member of staff will be available to help you identify which national indicators might apply.
* To be found on delegate chairs on arrival	
** The full list of National Indicators can be found in your packs

11.00	Refreshments and interactive exercise

11.45	Workshops – delegates to go to allocated workshops identified by coloured writing on your badge.

Format of workshops – workshops will run for one hour
•	Presentation by workshop leader
•	Questions and answers
Workshop-wide debate around the following questions:
1.	What are the opportunities and barriers to using this kind of approach/es?
2.	What further support would be useful to help people use these approaches more?
3.	How can we work together better?

A note-taker will record the outcomes of the session for distribution at a later date.

Workshop 2:  

Practical guide to Mental Well-being Impact Assessments - Nerys Edmonds, SLAM

•	How to identify potential positive and negative impacts of a project or proposal on mental well-being
•	How to create an action plan for a project to enhance positive impact 
•	Developing specific indicators (measures) of mental well-being for projects

Room 3+4 (ground floor) – green badge

Workshop 1:  

The How of Happiness - Everything you wanted to know about wellbeing tools -  Dr Ilona Boniwell, University of East London

•	Guide to current tools available and how to use them
•	Advantages and disadvantages of tools
•	Tools include: 
o	Satisfaction with life scale (Diener et al)
o	The Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky)

Room 11 (across courtyard) – red badge

Workshop 3:  
Incorporating well-being into your projects  - Professor Angela Clow, University of Westminster 
•	Making sense of well-being in community interventions 
•	How can well-being promotion benefit disadvantaged communities? 
•	How can this influence behaviour change?
Room 6  (1st floor) – blue badge

Workshop 4:  

Can local authorities find a way to make us all happy? – Dr Marcia Brophy, Young Foundation  

•	To explore how local government intervention in key areas can increase happiness and wellbeing
•	To establish the value to local government of prioritising happiness and wellbeing in service delivery and strategic planning
•	To establish robust and cost effective ways of measuring happiness at local level

Room 8 (main room)  – black badge

12.45	Return to main room for summing up and next steps – Samantha Heath

1pm		Lunch and chatting

All presentations, outcomes from workshops and other resources will be available on the well london website at a later date: www.london.gov.uk/welllondon/

Please remember to fill in your evaluation forms before you go!