Frequently Asked Questions

The following are some of the questions asked about our coaching and consulting services. Click on a question to go directly to its answer, or scroll down to see all answers.

Should you have further questions, please feel free to contact us

1. What makes the BWELL programmes unique compared to other life coaching or counselling services?

2. Is there a solid basis for the BWELL programmes?

3. Are BWELL services such as the Focused Awareness programme not some form of a weird, new age or spiritual “cult”?

4. I don’t want to be locked into an endless commitment to a programme through something like a “club membership” etc?

5. Why should I spend extra time and money on my personal well-being?

6. Does well-being not just happen or come from simple positive thinking anyway?

7. Wouldn’t everything be great if only I got my weight, job, relationship etc. right?

8. This sounds all very interesting but can I still try it out first before I decide or make any commitment?

1. What makes the BWELL programmes unique compared to other life coaching or counselling services?
The depth and extent of solid university based expertise and personal experience underlying the development and facilitation of BWELL programmes means that our clients get a unique systematically structured combination of practical tools and strategies that is nowhere else available in this form. This means that all our services and programmes are held together by a consistent underlying philosophy of meeting the needs of real people with real lives by making a wide variety of beneficial researched facts accessible.

BWELL programmes integrate many different approaches such as coaching, counselling, consultation, practical skills training without being limited to any one of those. We provide comprehensive and relevant knowledge and background information on what to do and why in order to optimise one’s well-being.

We also make sure to “meet you were you are now”. This means that you will be systematically guided through steps of exploring, developing and practising the skills and techniques to create and maintain personal well-being. Everything will be explained and presented in straightforward language.

We always invite and encourage any questions and comments about our services as critical thinking and healthy scepticism is one hallmark of well-being in itself.

We teach, practise and rehearse practical skills with our clients which they then can apply immediately in their own life. We discuss any obstacles and solve problems with our clients as they arise.

In our programmes you will get a comprehensive handbook which you can easily refer to after having finished your programme of choice. This handbook contains detailed background information as well as self-explanatory exercises.

BWELL programmes, therefore, provide you with much more than narrow goal focused support and pep-talk!

2. Is there a solid basis for the BWELL programmes?
BWELL programmes are based on decades of serious research across a number of scientific disciplines such as (but not limited to) neuroscience, cognitive psychology, paleoanthropology, clinical psychology, social psychology, paleobiology, archaeology, sociology, biology, physics, environmental and evolutionary psychology and anthropology. Helpful tools and techniques that have empirical support together with scientific knowledge have been combined into a unique package that will allow our customers to identify possible areas of improvement and to make these improvements quickly and confidently.

We aim to keep our programmes and processes transparent and free from meaningless jargon and we are always very happy to explain why we do what we do.

3. Are BWELL services such as the Focused Awareness programme not some form of a weird, new age or spiritual “cult”?
Absolutely not!
It is necessary to acknowledge that some aspects of our integrated services, such as mindfulness training, have been around for a very long time (about 2,500 years, actually) and have been done in connection with certain philosophies such as Buddhism. However, over the past 25 years western psychology practitioners have started to research and separate the techniques and strategies that bring benefits from the spiritual and ideological background on which they had been developed and practised previously.

Today, BWELL programmes are specifically designed to be free from any of these spiritual connotations and can be beneficially practised by anyone, regardless of their own beliefs.

There is no need whatsoever to blindly “buy into” or “believe in” our models or programmes and there is no “secret knowledge” to be revealed.

In fact, a healthy dose of scepticism and scientific thinking is always encouraged and promoted as a crucial tool of creating personal well-being.

4. What if I don’t want to be locked into an endless commitment to a programme through something like a “club membership” etc?
BWELL services don’t require you to make any long-term commitment. Our aim is to provide you within our systematically structured 8 session programmes (Focused Awareness and LifeFulfillment) with all the necessary tools and strategies to create and maintain your best possible level of personal well-being.

For those clients who wish to continue with individual sessions or to brush up their skills after having finished the programmes we are happy to provide these services if and when requested by the client.

At no point will there be any pressure on you to continue beyond the 8 session programme of your choice.

5. Why should I spend extra time and money on my personal well-being?
Subjective well-being has been found to promote creative thinking, increased efficiency, performance and persistence and a tendency to select higher goals. A sense of well-being improves one’s ability to deal with inevitable stress and pain. Well-being and positive emotions are also predictors of improved health and longevity.

Far from being a self-indulgent luxury, BWELL programmes can help you to maximise your potential at work or home, family or sport through giving you the means to create and maintain your optimal level of personal well-being.

Keep in mind that this is a life long investment as you will be able to apply your new skills and techniques for years and years to come.

Make also sure to compare the quality in regards to expertise and experience behind life coaching services. At BWELL you get services based on many years of relevant and university based training as well as more than 20 years of personal experience.

6. Does well-being not just happen or come from simple positive thinking anyway?
Actually, for most of our lives we are so entangled in our daily routines, responsibilities and duties that we often hardly notice what is going on. Have you ever thought:” I can’t believe that a whole year has already gone by! Where has the time gone?”

Sadly, if we are not careful, life can, indeed, pass us by and we miss out on many good things as well as warning signs that our well-being is not what it could be.

BWELL programmes give you the means to quickly check your state of well-being and to make improvements if and when necessary.

Well-being does depend on a number of factors, which rarely come together by chance alone. Our thinking and emotional patterns, our relationships, our actions, our body and our sense of meaning and purpose all play a role in the creation and maintenance of well-being. Only BWELL offers you the necessary systematically structured combination of tools and techniques that you can apply quickly in your every-day life.

There is a clear need to be pro-active, to plan and to MAKE WELL-BEING HAPPEN!

We can show you the “what and how to” of creating and maintaining your optimal level of personal well-being.

7. Wouldn’t everything be great if only I got my weight, job, relationship etc. right?
A very common mistake is to pin your personal well-being onto one single issue or aspect of your life. It is a researched fact that achieving your ideal weight or perfect health, having a great partner, getting the long desired promotion, building your dream home or moving to a warm and sunny spot, by itself, does definitely NOT improve your well-being substantially or for more than a short period of time.

Maintained well-being is the result of a combination of personal factors, circumstances and active efforts across a range of life domains such as thinking, feeling, body, actions, relationships and meaning and purpose. BWELL programmes help you attending to all of these domains in the most practical and beneficial way possible.

8. This sounds all very interesting but can I still try it out first before I decide or make any commitment?
Fair enough!
We understand that the BWELL concept of well-being creation and maintenance is comparatively new to the public.

Therefore — as an introduction special — we offer absolutely free group introductory sessions for our Focused Awareness and LifeFulfillment programmes. Introductory sessions on an individual basis will be at a discounted price.

These sessions will give you a much better insight into our programmes, what we do and why we do it in our particular way. You will have a chance to get a first actual taste of “hands on exercises” and to meet the facilitators themselves.

All this comes with absolutely no obligations and no pressure to buy or to commit to anything!

It is our conviction that well-being has to be build on an ongoing personal commitment that cannot be enforced or imposed in any way.