Bio-Dash: Harmonizing mind and body using evidence-based wellbeing strategies, personalised biodata and technology-enhanced training. — ASN Events

Bio-Dash: Harmonizing mind and body using evidence-based wellbeing strategies, personalised biodata and technology-enhanced training. — ASN Events

Bio-Dash: Harmonizing mind and body using evidence-based wellbeing strategies, personalised biodata and technology-enhanced training.

Bio-Dash: Harmonizing mind and body using evidence-based wellbeing strategies, personalised biodata and technology-enhanced training. (#13)

Dianne Vella-Brodrick ¹ , Anneliese Gill ¹ , Kent Patrick ¹

Centre of Wellbeing Science, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Workshop particpants will be introduced to Bio-Dash – a program that provides a practical and science-based approach to managing personal wellbeing, anxiety and performance. Bio-Dash will equip individuals with a wellbeing toolkit that can be applied to every day situations to enhance wellbeing and minimise distress. This program is unique in that it seeks to make learning about wellbeing personalised, engaging and tangible by illustrating the mind-body connection using technology-enabled features and best practice pedagogy.

Participants will be invited to try a range of wellbeing strategies that focus on smart breathing, zoning in, imagery, maxing the good stuff, emotion regulation and self-coaching. Individuals will have the opportunity to experience a variety of challenges on which to apply the different wellbeing strategies and then to literally see via biofeedback, how their body is responding using these varied strategies. For example individuals will receive personalised data on physiological processes such as respiration and skin temperature, in response to the wellbeing strategies. The biofeedback tools are portable and non-invasive and include engaging virtual challenges to help promote wellbeing practice and training. Over time, this biodata will enable individuals to make informed decisions about which strategies work best for them and to develop a wellbeing plan in accordance with these insights.

We aspire to empower individuals, groups and workplaces to self-manage their everyday stress and wellbeing, through education and personal feedback, using the latest scientific advances and tools. Bio-Dash has been designed to build personal capacity and confidence. This practical workshop seeks to demonstrate that wellbeing is a skill that can be learnt and that can improve wellbeing both at the subjective and physiological level. This fun and experiential workshop is relevant for anyone wanting to ‘see’ and ‘feel’ wellbeing using the latest science and innovations, whether it be for anxiety reduction, improved wellbeing or performance optimization.

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Authors contributing to this presentation.

Vella-Brodrick, D

Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick (PhD) holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology and is Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. She is the inaugural Director of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (2013 – 2015) and is a registered psychologist and a Member of the Australian Psychological Society and College of Health Psychologists. She founded the Positive Psychology Network in Australia and has served as Treasurer and Secretary of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and is currently on the IPPA Council of Advisors. Dianne has been an inaugural Editor in Chief of the Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice journal (2011-2016) and has Co-Directed the 2008, 2010 and 2014 Australian Positive Psychology and Well-being conferences. She serves on numerous research advisory boards, regularly reviews scientific papers for leading journals and has received around $3 million funding for her research. Dianne’s research interests include the development and evaluation of well-being programs, particularly in the areas of positive education and performance optimisation. She specialises in innovative mixed method designs which utilise the latest technology, experience sampling method and biological indices of well-being. Her research has a special focus on young people. She also integrates ethical and professional practice issues in much of her work and is currently the Ethics Chair at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Dianne also has extensive experience with scale development and psychometric testing having been involved in the development of numerous well-being measures including the Wuzzup app, MoodPrism and Wellbeing Profiler.

Gill, A

Anneliese Gill is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Wellbeing Science at the University of Melbourne and Fulbright Scholar. She has a Masters of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, New York and graduate and post graduate diploma in psychology from Monash University, Melbourne. With over 25 years experience as a music teacher and performer she is passionate about helping artists remain composed under pressure and reach their potential and regularly conducts performance mastery workshops and professional development sessions for music educators. Her research focuses on developing educational initiatives that foster self-efficacy, psychological performance skills, wellbeing and optimal performance in young people with a particular interest in performing artists. This has included the design, implementation and evaluation of an online teacher-facilitated program for secondary school students targeting self-efficacy, psychological performance skills and performance preparation.

Patrick, K

Dr Kent Patrick is a Research Fellow at The Centre for Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne. After an early career as a health professional, Kent completed a PhD in Psychology at Deakin University. Since joining the Centre for Wellbeing Science in 2016, he has worked on a range of projects led by Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick such as an ARC Linkage Grant “Effects of Positive Education during the critical post-school transition” that explored supporting the wellbeing of young people post-secondary school. This project included a range of innovative methods including working with a group of ‘youth leaders’ to co-develop an innovative wellbeing program to help young people manage post-school challenges, and the development of an app to collect data and assist with the tracking of their wellbeing. Kent has also been closely involved with the development and delivery of the Bio-Dash wellbeing and optimal performance program (bio-dash.com) since 2019 including its transformation to an online format. He has published over 30 reports and peer-reviewed journal articles and is passionate about the promotion of health and well-being of young people, and the development of innovative, engaging wellbeing programs for the workplace.