Take Notice

Individuals 

• Go somewhere you’ve always been meaning to visit in your local area.
• Take time out to reflect on your own wellbeing.
• Take part in a guided heritage walk.
• Meditation – either in your own way or join a group to learn techniques.
• Take time to just stop – do nothing and just be.
• Go to a crowded area, airports are a great example, and just watch the interactions between people. It could even improve body-language skills.
• Start a photo diary of a particular favourite place – take photos of the same landscape, person, or pet every day for a year and make an album.

Families

• Take your family on a heritage walk or make your own personal one – encourage family members to create ‘stories’ about local places.
• Start a ‘praise jar’ where family members pop in positive comments about each other. These could be read out at dinner time.
• Each day, ask a family member – what is one good thing that happened today. So often we focus on what went wrong, what about what went right?!
• Play ‘I-Spy’ on car journeys. 

Communities 

• Work with your community or neighbourhood to develop a heritage walk, highlighting local areas of interest, historical significance or natural beauty
• Write a letter to the editor about some little spot of nature that may go unnoticed but is well worth people stopping to look at next time they pass by.
• Take notice of what is happening for others – speak up to support someone being unfairly treated.
• Acknowledge a local community champion – write a letter to the newspaper thanking their efforts or nominate them for a community award.
• Take note of the public facilities in your community that might be improved, e.g. access or lighting, and then take action, or even promote community/recreation centres, parks. Write letters in support of improvements. 

Schools

• Get students to nominate teachers for a range of awards, e.g. ‘easy to talk to’ etc.
• Establish Rangatahi Awards, where students and staff nominate young people for achievements outside of academia and sport.
• Start student initiatives on the wellbeing of the school – i.e. students ‘take notice’ of issues they would like improved in their school community environment or community.
• Create a nomination box within class for students to acknowledge nice things others do.  

Older People 

• Get to know the senior members of your neighbourhood or community – maybe write oral histories for the web or local paper highlighting their personal stories and honouring them. 

Workplaces

• Get a group of your colleagues out of the office at lunchtime and take time to appreciate your local green space
• Ask your colleagues to bring in a photo of their favourite nature spot and display them in the lunchroom all week
• Organise a lunchtime meditation session
• Bring in an object of beauty to brighten your office and encourage others to do the same. 

Working with Primary Health Care/Health Professionals

• Speak to local professionals and organise a ‘wellbeing stocktake’ of your organisation’s health policies, wellness programmes, support mechanisms for staff wellbeing.