Social Wellness
What makes up social wellness?
Social wellness encompasses genuine and consistent relationships/interactions with people of various backgrounds and how well you manage expectations that arise from these interactions. It simply means developing a sense of interdependency and interconnectivity, feeling like you are a part of a whole. Social wellness is about developing and maintaining both digital and in-person connections (personal and professional).
How to improve your social wellness skills
- Learn skills that will help you develop and maintain interpersonal relationships
- Appreciating diversity and always treating people with kindness
- Seek more to understand people rather than be understood
- Learn to be assertive and empathetic
- Time management
- Being true to yourself at all times (not trying to be something you are not to please others)
- Actively engage with people in your community and participate in communal activities
- Setting, understanding and respecting boundaries in all your relationships-encourage communication, trust and conflict management
- Remembering to have fun
- Building a supportive network of family and friends