Past Webinars

• March 2nd, 2026: Wellbeing Policy in Malta The Wellbeing INDEX project, a case study on the implementation of a wellbeing measurement.
• February 2nd, 2026: Wellbeing Policy in Bhutan Insights into Bhutan`s Gross National Happiness Framework and its conceptualization within the indigenous Relational Wellbeing approach.
• January 2nd, 2026: Wellbeing Policy in New Zealand Aotearoa or New Zealand`s Wellbeing policy and its role in political discourse, legislative action and policy making.
• December 8th, 2025: Canada`s Role in Shaping International Developments in Quality of Life and Wellbeing Canada’s contributions to new international guidelines and frameworks, building on the country’s Quality of Life Framework and supporting global momentum “Beyond GDP.”
• April 6th, 2023: Child-Sensitive Budgets to Achieve Children’s Rights and Wellbeing How child-sensitive budgeting can support wellbeing policy and budgets.
• April 4th, 2023: Wellbeing Policy & Mental Health What recent policy approaches can bring to mental health strategies.
• April 3rd, 2023: Imagining a World with Wellbeing at the Centre of our Policy How wellbeing policy can and is making a difference in local communities.
• November 22nd, 2022: The economics of happiness: is it ready for serious cost-benefit analysis?  Learn about the units of “WELLBY”s and “WALY”s from their creators, find out whether they agree, and discuss how ready these approaches are to support wellbeing as the primary goal of governments.
• September 27th, 2022: Wales and Canada Sharing lessons learned and approaches in moving beyond GDP: Roundtable discussion with Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, joined by a group of Canadian federal, provincial, territorial, and local leaders, to exchange learnings and approaches in moving beyond GDP to prioritize wellbeing and quality of life.

Conference & Gathering Recordings

May 2026: Governing for Wellbeing: Five Years of Canada`s Quality of Life Agenda

April 2023: Wellbeing Ahead! A Gathering of the Canadian Wellbeing Knowledges Network

April 2021: Policies for Better Lives: Strategies for life satisfaction and human wellbeing

CWKN Wellbeing Policy Videos

The CWKN Youtube Channel shares our network’s wellbeing policy videos and a range of curated wellbeing policy resource playlists.

CWKN Members Profiles: We have interviewed some of our network members to ask about how they engage with the wellbeing policy.

Our first series of videos: Definitions of Wellbeing addresses how they define “wellbeing” in their work.

Our second series of videos: Determinants versus objectives addresses how they distinguish between objectives and determinants (or means) when thinking about wellbeing.

Our third series of videos: Visions of a wellbeing world addresses if governments adopted a wellbeing policy framework in their decision-making, how do CWKN members envisage the world to be different in fifty years time?

Our fourth series of videos: Making the concept of wellbeing actionable and measurable addresses how do members of the CWKN get from the broad concept of wellbeing to something that is measurable and actionable, so that it may be used to set achievable goals?

CWKN Publications

Canadian Wellbeing Policy Initiatives Database Summary Report (April 2023) A summary report of insights gathered in development of the CWKN’s Canadian Wellbeing Policy Initiatives Database.

Wellbeing Discourse Dialogues Summary Report (April 2023) A report summarizing key themes and insights developed over three CWKN-hosted wellbeing-based policy Discourse Dialogue sessions in three communities of interest (Child & Youth, Local & Community, & Public Health).