Salutogenic Assets
We investigate how these resources are transformed into lasting human capacities.
Human development can be understood and cultivated.
We investigate how the experiences, resources, and relationships that promote well-being come to be lifelong human capacities.
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SALUTOGENESIS
A new understanding of health and human development.
Our approach is inspired by salutogenesis, the science that studies how people build and strengthen their health and well-being throughout their lives. To understand these processes and measure transformation, WHI combines developmental science and artificial intelligence.
- This knowledge opens the door to a new generation of decisions, experiences, and innovations aimed at developing the human capacities that sustain mental well-being.
- Teachers feel more and more overwhelmed.
- Packed curricula leave little room for creativity.
- It's hard to keep the day-to-day going with enthusiasm.
When research is placed at the service of life
We collaborate with adolescents, schools, universities, and professionals to understand how to support young people in developing the skills that enable them to achieve sustained mental well-being. We continue to research, learn, and build together with those who believe that a different approach to education and care is possible.
Read our visionAdolescence, the time where we can generate a major long-term impact.
We investigate the period in which human development is most dynamic and where resources that promote health can generate the greatest long-term impact. Understanding how these resources become lasting human capabilities allows us to generate the scientific evidence and models that will serve to understand, measure, and foster human development across the lifespan.
Lasting mental well-being
We study the processes that build lasting mental well-being, understand how they develop, and guide actions before problems arise
Intelligence for Human Development and Well-Being
IN ADOLESCENTS, FAMILIES, AND SCHOOLS
The adolescent experience
We create experiences that unlock potential, strengthen relationships, and build lifelong skills
Advanced measurement (BHI)
We transform data into knowledge to understand and promote development and well-being, and to make decisions that have a greater impact
Building alongside those who drive change and transformation.
Over the past few years we've worked with institutions, universities, schools, researchers, and organizations committed to adolescent wellbeing.
We bring together knowledge, technology, and purpose to build healthier environments for our young people.
When we understand human development, well-being ceases to depend on heroics.
When resources that promote health are understood, mobilized, and integrated, well-being becomes part of the development process itself.
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First consolidated alliances
Educational institutions that have implemented the program are renewing and expanding their collaboration.
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Evidence in Real-World Contexts
Students improve their Sense Of Coherence by applying the model in schools.
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Initial scientific validation
The average improvement in students' SOC following a 10-hour salutogenic intervention
Voices that confirm change is possible
How does the WHI Institute framework help? The WHI Institute framework provides a common framework to understand our center's needs. Therefore, we make decisions using real data. Consequently, today we work with much greater clarity and foresight. This allows our team to plan ahead and improve overall student outcomes effectively.
I now have concrete tools to foster emotional well-being in the classroom naturally and adapted to my group. Best of all, the students truly experience it.
Managing student stress became much easier once I learned to understand my feelings and handle daily pressure. Therefore, these practical school activities proved highly useful, helping me navigate challenges both inside and outside of the classroom environment.
We can't decide the lives our adolescents will lead.
But we can walk alongside them, shape their development, and inspire them with experiences that empower them to build a life of purpose, health, and mental wellbeing.
For years we've been researching, learning, and building alongside schools, families, and institutions committed to their future.