Both the relationships within communities that create wellbeing and allow mutual support and the relationships between people in the council that enable employees to feel secure innovating.
Studies show that using gratitude and other self-transcendent emotions create wellbeing and counter negative emotions (Cappellan, Toth-Gauthier, Saroglou & Fredrickson, 2014).
In contrast, your inner life is where you can create wellbeing and clarity through the ups and downs that will occur in your outer life.
As far back as Isaiah, Israelite tradition has pondered the problem, the prophet saying in the name of the Divine, "I form the light and create darkness, I make wellbeing and create evil; I, the Eternal One, do all these things" (Isaiah 45:7).
Of course, as Heyd notes, in many cases an act that creates a low wellbeing level for a person whose existence depends on that act will also create low wellbeing levels for people whose existences are independent of that act.
Penny Garner, creator of the SPECAL method (Specialised Early Care for Alzheimer's) believes that carers can create lifelong wellbeing by learning how to access the good feelings involved in these past occupations.
Still other philosophers have suggested principles that require agents to create additional wellbeing, including, when necessary, by bringing a better off person into existence in place of a nonidentical less well off person, but limit that obligation to the case where agents can substitute in the better off person for the less well off person on a one-to-one basis.
They, in other words, avoid the obligation to create more wellbeing on an aggregate basis by bringing ever more people into existence (Holtug 2009; Holtug 2010, 160 162; see also Parfit 1987, 369 71 (discussion of Principle Q Petersrs 2004, 27 39 (concept of injury by failure to substitute); and Savulescu 2001 (principle of procreative beneficence)).
And the third one is co-create wellbeing for and with many by enabling people to enjoy a sustainable form of happiness by sharing and experimenting with abundant resources.
Interventions to reduce parental criticism could lead to a reduction in ADHD symptoms, but other efforts to improve the severe symptoms of children with ADHD could also lead to a reduction in parental criticism, creating greater wellbeing in the family over time".
The survey asks a range of personal questions – job satisfaction, frequency of exercise, how many neighbours you know by name – and creates a wellbeing score in three areas: Be (how you feel), Do (how you act) and Connect (how you relate to others).
