Wellbeing Inspires Welldoing: How Changemakers’ Inner Wellbeing Influences Their Work

Severns Guntzel, J. & Murphy Johnson, N. (2020)

Those working in social change are tackling the world’s most urgent issues like climate change and inequality. But increasingly, these changemakers are facing chronic stress, depression and burnout. To learn more about the challenges surrounding contemporary changemakers—including activists, teachers, non-profit leaders, social workers, social entrepreneurs and health care providers—the Wellbeing Project interviewed and documented the inner wellbeing journey of social change leaders from around the world over several years. The study found that wellbeing inspires welldoing.