My Wellness Star
My Wellness Star is the Star for everyday health and wellbeing.
It encourages people to consider factors that contribute to their overall health, wellbeing and quality of life. This includes food and drink, sleep, getting moving, social connections and more to create a balanced picture of their everyday life.
How does My Wellness Star work?
My Wellness Star is a holistic, person-centred keywork and measurement tool for practitioners to use as part of one-to-one keywork.
Completing the Star is an engaging and collaborative process that helps you to build an open, trusting relationship with the person that you’re supporting. The Star aims to create a safe space where genuine conversations can happen, and people feel listened to and understood.
Within this framework you can explore all relevant aspects of a person’s life, track progress and create a shared basis for an action or support plan.
My Wellness Star covers ten outcome areas which are based on factors we know have an impact on overall wellness:
- My food and drink
- Getting moving
- My sleep
- My physical health
- How I feel
- Feeling connected
- How I spend my time
- Daily living
- My money
- Unhealthy habits
My Wellness Star and the Journey of Change
Change doesn’t happen in one go – it is a journey and it can help to understand the steps along the way. Everyone makes changes in their own way but the pattern is often similar. My Wellness Star is underpinned by a five-stage Journey of Change:
1. Stuck
2. Finding out
3. Making changes
4. Finding what works
5. Managing well
How does this work?
The Journey of Change works with an outcome area like the ones outlined above to help collaborative discussions about what the person completing the Star is experiencing and how best to make changes at each stage.
For the outcome My food and drink the Journey of Change would look like the visual below:
The full Star materials also include lots of extra details on what a person might be experiencing at each stage to help them decide where they are on their journey.
Talking points for My Wellness Star
We have developed some talking points for each outcome area for you to refer to if they feel helpful and relevant to the person you are supporting. They are based on the research behind this Star and may encourage people to think more deeply about a topic or consider something they hadn’t thought of before.
An example of talking points for My food and drink is below:
What are the benefits of the Outcomes Stars?
The Outcomes Stars give you an evidence-based measurement tool to support keyworking in a way that is person-centred, collaborative and trauma-informed.
They work because they are underpinned with a sense of hope – that even when things are challenging, positive change in some way is always possible. Their detail and flexibility helps you to understand what’s likely to work for an individual while giving you more information to help you deliver effective services.
Why are the Outcomes Stars so effective?
- A clearer and more detailed picture of change. The Star measures not only end outcomes – for example gaining employment – but includes broader outcomes such as quality of life.
- An integral part of keywork. The Star is completed collaboratively vs self-reporting or a professional-only tool.
- Supporting action planning. The Star allows you to easily see information about the areas where support is needed and what that support should look like.
- Support for effective service delivery. The Stars help your organisation to deliver support in a holistic, strengths-based and person-centred way.
- Tailored organisational support. Many measurement tools offer little to no support on how to use them. Using an Outcomes Star means you will get tailored support so you can understand whether the Star is a good fit, training so staff can use the Star effectively and access to the Star Online digital platform.
Want to discover more about My Wellness Star or any other Star? Get in touch with our friendly team who will be happy to answer your questions.
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