Wellbeing is ... our ultimate goal
Below is a more detailed record of our formal vision, mission, values, and roles, mentioned on our main web site (CWKN.ca)
VISION:
A world in which wellbeing is the ultimate goal for governments, communities, and organizations
MISSION:
Mobilize evidence and experience to make wellbeing the priority in programs, practices, policies, and mindsets
VALUES:
- Place. We celebrate the local and support it.
- Belonging and inclusion. We seek to create spaces where everyone feels seen, heard, valued, and essential.
- Evidence. We seek to amplify and scale what's working.
- Action. We seek meaningful, collaborative action.
- Inherent human rights. We respect human rights, including the distinct rights of Indigenous Peoples.
ROLES:
- Build Community
Convene the many people eager to work towards a future that prioritizes wellbeing
- Build Commitment
Sustain momentum towards wellbeing policy-making across jurisdictions, sectors, and political cycles
- Build Competencies and Capacity
- Through publications, media events, conversations, cafés, webinars, and conferences, build competencies that support people to centre wellbeing
- Build capacity for practice, policy, and measurement systems that prioritize wellbeing for everyone
- Build Awareness
- Excite people about the network and the size of the growing movement
- Amplify examples of wellbeing policy and practice from around the world
- Amplify examples of wellbeing policy and practice from local communities across our Network
- Change the narrative so that wellbeing is primary, not incidental