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Visible Wellbeing Program

Visible Wellbeing Pty Ltd

Visible Wellbeing (VWB) is an evidence-based program delivering teacher training workshops on high-impact wellbeing strategies together with 250+ classroom routines, resources, and activities.

  • Online

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Approved elsewhere: Be You, SA, VIC

Product type: Program; Posters; Student activities; Professional learning; Presentation by an expert or speaker ; Whole school approach or initiative; Wellbeing monitoring service, platform or tool; Educator wellbeing resources or services; Learning modules

Contact details

Visible Wellbeing Pty Ltd
ABN: 85 673 374 224

https://www.leawaters.com/vwb-program

admin@leawaters.com

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

  • Humanities and Social Science

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1)

Context: School or centre-based, Outside School Hours Care (OSHC)

Main beneficiaries: Early learning, Foundation/Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained; Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

VWB provides a whole-school framework (coaching and measurement) assisting school leaders to create a wellbeing ecosystem benefitting students, staff, and families.

The VWB program aims to equip staff, students and families with strategies, resources and activities that boost mental health, resilience and belonging.

The program is structured around 8 whole-staff workshops over an 18-month time frame. The cost varies with delivery type (in-person, virtual real-time, asynchronous on-demand), the number of coaching sessions for the wellbeing leader (3 or 6) and uptake of sustaining change support.

The program also features access to a full suite of resources and materials, coaching for the school wellbeing leader, measurement tools for tracking change in student and staff wellbeing, parent/carer resources, orientation modules for new staff, and crisis and postvention resources.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support
  • Regular webinars or access to community of professional practice

Evidence

VWB is designed on evidence generated from a multi-year, multi-study research project led by Professor Lea Waters that developed a data-driven school wellbeing framework called SEARCH.

The framework was developed through a large-scale published bibliometric review and cluster analysis (Rusk and Waters, 2015), an action research project across different school sectors (Waters, 2017), a systematic review of school intervention studies (Waters and Loton, 2019), and ongoing evaluations of the impact of SEARCH pathways on student outcomes such as resilience, agency and belonging (Barsky, 2024; Waters, Allen and Arslan, 2021; Waters, Bullock and Loton, 2023).

Results of the review demonstrated the effectiveness of the SEARCH framework and each individual SEARCH pathway on student wellbeing and learning outcomes. Published peer-reviewed evaluations of the VWB program show increased agency, greater resilience, emotional processing, and stress-related growth in students, as well as increased wellbeing literacy, stronger sense of school belonging and connection, and increased use of strengths in both staff and students. The impact of the program is also endorsed by positive feedback from school leaders of participating schools.