Creating Wellbeing Aware Environments

Self-guided, interactive eLearning | £25 | One year’s access

Design environments where people feel safe, valued, and able to thrive.

This course gives you the tools to integrate wellbeing into every aspect of your work - whether you’re leading a team, delivering a programme, or shaping a space.


Course Information

Creating Wellbeing Aware Environments is a practical, reflective course for anyone who wants to build environments that actively support physical, emotional, mental, and social wellbeing.

Designed with the creative, cultural, and heritage sectors in mind (but relevant to any professional setting), this course blends insight from psychology, inclusive design, and facilitation practice with hands-on, scenario-based learning.

You’ll explore how to:

  • Adapt physical and sensory environments to reduce barriers and increase comfort.

  • Create emotionally safe spaces that encourage participation and risk-taking.

  • Use models like PERMA and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to guide your planning.

  • Recognise and challenge unconscious bias to strengthen inclusion and trust.

An Interactive Learning Experience

This engaging self-guided course combines a variety of formats to keep learning active and relevant:

  • Video explainers to introduce key ideas

  • Scenario-based activities to apply concepts in realistic situations

  • Flashcards to break down complex topics

  • Reflection prompts to connect ideas to your own practice

  • Puzzles and matching exercises to test understanding

  • Audio options and full transcripts for every section, ensuring full accessibility

Course Overview

Understand Wellbeing Beyond ‘Feeling Good’
Learn the five key aspects of wellbeing - physical, emotional, mental, social, and purpose - and how to design environments that support them.


Draw on Established Frameworks
Use the PERMA model and Maslow’s Hierarchy to ensure needs are met from the basics to self-actualisation.


Balance Pleasure and Purpose
Discover how hedonia and eudaimonia work together to create fulfilling experiences.


Design for Accessibility and Comfort
Adapt lighting, layout, sound, and sensory elements to reduce overwhelm and improve focus.


Create Emotionally Safe Spaces
Develop trust, co-create boundaries, and handle emotional responses with care.


Challenge Unconscious Bias
Spot hidden assumptions, reduce their impact, and make inclusion a conscious practice.

This course is brought to you by the expert trainers at Artswork Professional Development, who are proud to share their decades of experience of personal and professional development within the creative, cultural and heritage sectors.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  1. Define wellbeing in a multi-dimensional context and apply it to your environment design.

  2. Recognise how physical, emotional, and social factors interact to influence engagement.

  3. Use the PERMA model and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as planning tools for activities, programmes, and spaces.

  4. Identify sensory triggers and adapt environments to reduce overload.

  5. Create emotionally safe spaces that support participation, collaboration, and risk-taking.

  6. Recognise and address unconscious bias in decision-making and facilitation.

  7. Implement practical, immediate changes to improve wellbeing in your context.

Course Features

  • Fully Online

    Complete anywhere, anytime

  • Self-Paced

    Pause and return as needed, with one year’s access

  • Accessible format

    All videos have transcripts, plus audio options for text content

  • Practical application

    Exercises and scenarios directly linked to real-world contexts

  • Ongoing reference

    Revisit frameworks and checklists for future projects

Who Is This Course For?

This course is suitable for:

  • Organisations looking to embed wellbeing into programmes, workplaces, or public-facing spaces.

  • Creative, cultural, and heritage practitioners who design and deliver public engagement activities.

  • Facilitators, educators, and community leaders aiming to create safe, inspiring environments.

  • Corporate teams seeking to improve staff experience, inclusion, and productivity.

Whether you’re managing a physical space, leading a project, or working directly with participants, the strategies in this course will help you create conditions for people to succeed.

£25 per learner | One year’s access

Equip yourself or your team with the skills to design spaces where wellbeing and productivity go hand-in-hand.
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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Course Introduction

  • 2

    What is Wellbeing?

  • 3

    The History of Wellbeing

    • A short history of wellbeing
  • 4

    Wellbeing and Creativity

    • Why is wellbeing so important in creative projects?

    • Wellbeing and safe spaces
  • 5

    Safer Environments

    • Physical environments

    • Emotionally safe environments: PERMA Model

    • Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
  • 6

    Unconscious (Implicit) Bias

    • Introduction to unconscious bias

    • Unconscious (Implicit) Bias

    • Exploring bias
  • 7

    Bringing it all together

    • Bringing it all together

    • Next steps
  • 8

    Completion

    • Thank you for completing this course

    • Survey