Wellness Calendar: Saturday 4 October

Missing a trick
Traditionally speaking, every piece of information, every idea, every theory, concept and notion, falls under the bracket of at least one of the below three overarching educational titles.
Humanities: the study of what it is to be human.
Science: the study of how the world (and beyond) works, from a human perspective.
Art: the study of expressing how we feel about being human and living in the world and how we feel about having knowledge about being human and living in the world (and beyond).
And yet, despite existing for over a thousand years, formal education doesn’t actively provide humans with the time or the tools for wellness. There is no real study of wellness, no real encouragement for students to engage in pursuing a better life. You may leave school with solutions to mathematical equations. You may be an oven-ready employee for a prestigious company, but it’s unlikely you’ll be prepared for some of the psychological hurdles that everyday life presents you with.
The tragedy with this absence of knowledge is that many people are not invested in their own wellbeing because it’s not on their radar. They don’t have the words, the language, the infrastructure with which to lay the foundations of self-empowered wellness, that they can then safeguard, future-proof and nurture across their lifetime.
Are we missing a trick here?