Chapter Eight: PERMA+

Physical, Financial & Environmental Wellbeing

Chapter 8 explores the “+” in the PERMA+ model - the vital role of physical, financial, and environmental wellbeing - in a flourishing life. Sleep, nourishment, movement, and security aren’t add-ons; they’re core to our creative vitality. In The Biology of Wellbeing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body, participants tune into the body’s wisdom through self-portraiture, metaphor, movement, and guided visualization - map inner terrain and practice creative care. In Financial Health: The Currency of Care, financial wellbeing becomes creative inquiry. Participants personify their relationship with money, explore inherited beliefs, and reimagine stories of worth and safety through collage, writing, and dialogue. The Environmental Wellbeing: Designing Sanctuary playshop expands the view to our inner and outer environments. Participants explore how space, both physical and emotional, shapes wellbeing, using symbolic art-making and sensory mapping to design more nourishing worlds.

Activities Include:

Money Talks

Guided Visualization

Space Creation

Intuitive Self-Portraiture

Wellbeing Mandala

Key Benefits:

·       Deepens mind-body awareness through creative embodiment

·       Supports physical and emotional regulation through somatic expression

·       Uncovers and reframes limiting beliefs

·       Reclaims physical and financial wellbeing as creative, compassionate practices

Promotes holisitic wellbeing