Our Approach
Health is not merely the absence of illness or distress—it is striving for positive physical, mental, and social well-being (World Health Organization, 2014). Well-being encompasses many concepts and terms, for example, flourishing, connectedness, holistic wellness, mindfulness, resilience, grit, purpose, belonging, and self-compassion. Promoting positive well-being enables people to realize their potential, cope with the stresses of life, study and work productively and successfully, connect with one another, and contribute to their community.
Well-Being is Multi-Dimensional and Settings-Based
The seven dimensions of the UMatter Wellness Wheel illustrate the many opportunities that exist for enhancing well-being.
A comprehensive approach to well-being requires a settings-based approach: Going beyond health education for individuals to create a campus community where the people, programs, culture, systems, policies, and spaces all work together to promote well-being.
Well-Being is Collaborative
TigerWell is engaging campus stakeholders who are working across multiple dimensions of wellness. Collaborative planning sparks innovation, including creating new partnerships, coordinating existing efforts, and identifying creative ways to incorporate health and well-being into university activities and settings.
Projects
Campus Well-Being Partnership (CWP)
Over 140 staff and faculty from across the University have joined the Partnership, and many meet regularly to share information and resources, collaborate, strategize how to best meet shared well-being-related goals, and coordinate health and well-being effort
Data and Research
TigerWell aims to increase the extent to which well-being efforts are data-driven and evidence-informed. Efforts include compiling existing well-being data, creating guidelines for evaluating well-being efforts, and funding research on student well-being at Princeton.
TigerWell Grant Program
We offer two types of grants, both of which are intended to fund innovative, research-informed activities, programs, projects, or research that promote well-being. Students, postdocs, staff and faculty are all eligible to apply.
Clinical and Well-Being Outreach
TigerWell Outreach Counselors work from satellite offices where students live, work and socialize. They offer individual counseling for students (drop-in or by appointment), support groups, referrals, and workshops.
Well-Being in Learning Spaces
This cross-campus collaboration aims to promote conditions for undergraduate and graduate student well-being in learning environments by providing faculty and other instructors with support in implementing small changes to educational practices that have profound impacts on students.
Request Consultation on
Well-Being
TigerWell and Health Promotion and Prevention Services (HPPS) work together to provide consultation to the Princeton community on well-being-related efforts.