Well-being Specialist Certification
Bring evidence-based well-being education into your professional practice
Learn the science of well-being, experience the practices yourself, and develop the skills to teach and apply them in your own work with students, groups and communities.
The Well-being Specialist Certification is a three-week professional training program for people who want to understand well-being beyond theory and learn how to translate evidence-based knowledge into education and practice.
You do not need a background in psychology, and you do not need to be a university teacher. We start with the foundations and gradually move from understanding your own well-being to learning how to work with well-being professionally. Join us and become a Well-being Specialist!
Program at a Glance
Duration: 3 weeks
Digital learning: approximately 1 hour each weekday
Live online sessions: 5 × 90 minutes
Modules: 13
Format: fully online
Group size: maximum 15 participants
Language: English
Completion: Well-being Specialist Certificate
Each module includes up to 45 minutes of guided learning followed by approximately 15 minutes of practical work, reflection or an interactive Practice Lab.
Why Become a Well-being Specialist?
Well-being is increasingly part of education, student support, health promotion, counselling, leadership and community work. Yet understanding well-being scientifically and knowing how to work with it responsibly are two different things.
The Well-being Specialist Certification brings these two sides together.
You will learn what contemporary research tells us about well-being, work with evidence-based practices yourself, and develop the skills to translate this knowledge into your own professional setting.
After the certification, you can use what you have learned in many different ways: teach well-being, integrate it into an existing course, work with individuals or groups, enrich counselling or student-support practice, develop a well-being project or program, contribute to institutional initiatives, or create your own evidence-based well-being course.
You can also choose to deliver the BEwell course itself using the methodology and materials developed within the program.
What Is BEwell?
BEwell stands for Building Engagement and Well-being through Electronic Life-like Learning.
It is an evidence-based educational approach developed specifically around student well-being and higher education.
The program brings together positive psychology, positive education, health and well-being research, experiential learning and practical interventions that can be used in everyday life.
Its scientific framework approaches well-being through ten interconnected areas:
Positive Emotions • Engagement & Flow • Relationships • Meaning • Achievement • Physical Health • Mindset • Environment • Economic Security • Authenticity
Rather than treating well-being as a single feeling or score, we look at the different areas of life that contribute to how well a person is actually doing.
The educational methodology grew from the university course developed by Jana Kočí and the book Well-Being and Success for University Students: Applying PERMA+4, and has been developed and taught in higher education over several years.
From Science to Practice
The certification is designed as a progression rather than a collection of lectures.
First, you experience the program yourself
During the digital part of the certification, you work through the BEwell modules as a learner.
You watch short lessons, complete your own Well-Being Flower and self-assessment, work with guided reflection and try the interactive Practice Labs.
Understanding the science matters, but so does experiencing what it feels like to work with these methods yourself.
Then we look behind the methodology
In our live sessions, we move from participating to facilitating.
We unpack why particular activities are used, how to introduce well-being concepts without oversimplifying the science, how to facilitate reflection and discussion, and how to adapt activities to different people and settings.
Then you practise
You will have opportunities to teach and facilitate selected material yourself, work through real situations, receive feedback and reflect on your own approach.
We also work explicitly with professional boundaries: what belongs to well-being education and coaching, what belongs to counselling, and when clinical or other professional support is needed.
What You Will Be Able to Do
By the end of the certification, you will be able to:
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understand and explain the scientific foundations of well-being and positive psychology in accessible language;
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work with a multidimensional model of well-being rather than reducing well-being to happiness or mental health alone;
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use evidence-based activities, reflection and practical interventions to support well-being;
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teach core areas of well-being using the methodology practised throughout the certification;
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facilitate individual reflection, group discussion and experiential activities;
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use well-being coaching skills appropriately within educational and professional settings;
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create a psychologically safe environment for conversations about well-being;
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recognize the boundaries between education, coaching, counselling and clinical care;
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adapt well-being education to your own professional context and the people you work with;
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use the BEwell digital platform, Well-Being Flower, Practice Labs, book and teaching materials;
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design your own evidence-based well-being learning activities, course or project while maintaining scientific and professional integrity.
What Can You Do With the Certification?
There is no single way to become a Well-being Specialist.
The purpose of the certification is to give you knowledge and practical skills that can travel with you into your own profession.
You may use them to:
Teach well-being
Create a course, workshop or educational program based on the scientific principles and methodology you have learned.
Bring well-being into what you already teach
Use selected concepts, practices and activities within your existing courses or educational work.
Work with individuals or groups
Integrate well-being knowledge and appropriate coaching skills into student support, counselling, advising, mentoring or other people-focused roles.
Develop projects and programs
Use the methodology when designing well-being, prevention, health-promotion or educational projects.
Support organizational or institutional well-being
Contribute to initiatives that bring evidence-based well-being into universities, schools, workplaces or communities.
Teach BEwell
Use the BEwell course and its materials within the conditions of the certification, while clearly identifying it as the BEwell program and respecting its methodology and authorship.
The certification is therefore not tied to one job title, profession or institution. What matters is learning how to work with well-being responsibly, practically and on the basis of evidence.
What You Will Study
The certification takes you through 13 learning modules, moving from the foundations of well-being to the areas that shape how people function, feel and flourish.
The curriculum includes:
Introduction to Well-Being
Understanding well-being, flourishing and the scientific foundations behind the program.
Stress, Safety & Regulation
Understanding stress and developing practical ways of working with regulation and a sense of safety.
Positive Emotions
Understanding the function of positive and negative emotions and working with evidence-based practices that support positive emotional experience.
Engagement & Flow
Attention, intrinsic motivation, strengths, engagement and the conditions that allow flow to emerge.
Positive Relationships
Connection, social support, trust and the role of relationships in well-being.
Meaning & Purpose
Values, purpose and connection to something larger than ourselves.
Achievement
Goals, motivation, self-efficacy and sustainable accomplishment.
Physical Health
The relationship between physical and psychological well-being, including sleep, nutrition, movement and energy.
Mindset
The ways our thinking, expectations and psychological resources shape how we respond to life.
Environment
How physical, social and digital environments influence well-being.
Economic Security
The role of financial security, behaviour and psychological safety in well-being.
Authenticity
Values, self-expression and alignment between who we are and how we live.
Integration & Application
Bringing the different dimensions together and translating what you have learned into your own professional practice.
Three Weeks Designed to Fit Around Your Work
The certification takes place over three weeks.
From Monday to Friday, plan approximately one hour a day for the digital learning component.
A typical module includes up to 45 minutes of guided content and approximately 15 minutes of active practice, such as reflection, work with the Well-Being Flower or an interactive Practice Lab.
During the three weeks, we also meet five times live online for 90 minutes.
These sessions are where we discuss the science, practice facilitation and coaching skills, work with real situations, address professional boundaries and translate the learning into your own professional setting.
Course Fee
EUR 1,500 / CZK 33,000 / USD 2,000 + applicable tax / IDR 6,900,000 per participant
The fee includes the digital platform, 13 learning modules and Practice Labs, five live online sessions, the book, teaching materials, practical training, assessment and certification.
The fee may be paid personally or by your university, employer or another sponsoring organization.
Universities and organizations interested in training several specialists can contact us about group arrangements.
Meet Your Instructor
Jana Kočí, Ph.D., PhDr.
Jana Kočí is an Assistant Professor of Health and Well-being Education
at Charles University and the founder of Uniwellsity and BEwell.
Her work focuses on university student well-being, positive education
and the development and evaluation of evidence-based interventions
that can be translated into everyday higher-education practice.
She is the author of Well-Being and Success for University Students:
Applying PERMA+4 and the developer of the Student Well-Being Course,
the Student Well-Being Scale and the educational methodology that forms the foundation of BEwell.
Her research and teaching connect positive psychology with education, health, student success and practical intervention design.
Upcoming Certification
November 16 to December 6, 2026
Three weeks, fully online
Approximately one hour of digital learning each weekday
Five 90-minute live sessions
Maximum 15 participants
English
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN HERE
If this feels relevant to the work you are already doing, or the work you would like to begin doing, send us a short email and tell us a little about yourself and how you hope to use well-being in your professional practice.
Live Online Session
5:00–6:30 PM CET
Becoming a BEwell Specialist
Monday, November 16, 2026
Understanding well-being, the BEwell approach, your role as a specialist and the boundaries between well-being education, coaching, counselling and clinical care.
Friday, November 20, 2026
5:00–6:30 PM CET
Teaching Well-Being
Learning how to explain well-being science, facilitate reflection and discussion, work with experiential activities and adapt your approach to different learners and settings.
Monday, November 23, 2026
5:00–6:30 PM CET
Working With Students
Practising well-being coaching and communication skills through situations you may encounter in your professional work, including recognizing when your role ends and another form of professional support should begin.
Monday, November 30, 2026
5:00–6:30 PM CET
Putting Well-Being Into Practice
Working with selected well-being topics, practising teaching or facilitation and receiving personal feedback.
Friday, December 4, 2026
5:00–6:30 PM CET
Making It Your Own
Bringing everything together and developing a concrete way to use your new knowledge in your own role, whether through teaching, counselling, student support, health promotion, project work, research, leadership or a new well-being program.
An Evidence-Based Approach to Well-Being
The methodology behind the certification did not begin as a commercial training program. It grew from years of teaching, research and the development of well-being education for university students.
The original university course combines scientific instruction with experiential learning, structured reflection and repeated practice across multiple dimensions of well-being. In a controlled study of the 11-week course, students participating in the intervention showed significant improvements in engagement, relationships, meaning, environment and overall PERMA+4 well-being, as well as increased life satisfaction.
The underlying Student Well-Being framework has also been examined across different cultural contexts. Research with 673 university students in the Czech Republic and 482 students in Indonesia examined ten dimensions of student well-being: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment, Physical Health, Mindset, Environment, Economic Security and Authenticity.
In the Czech sample, the extended PERMA5 model accounted for 59.3% of variance in subjective well-being, compared with 47.8% for the original PERMA model. In the Indonesian sample, extending PERMA also significantly increased its predictive power, although the study cautions against directly comparing latent means across the two cultures.
The educational approach has subsequently been translated into a digital format designed to preserve structured reflection, evidence-based content and human pedagogical oversight rather than replacing education with unrestricted AI interaction. Early research across higher-education cohorts in Europe and the United States suggests that students responded most positively when digital interaction remained structured, predictable, transparently human-authored and psychologically bounded.
This is why BEwell combines science, personal reflection, practical application and human facilitation rather than relying on information alone.
Certification Requirements
The certificate represents active completion of the program rather than attendance at a single workshop.
To receive the Well-being Specialist Certificate, participants complete:
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the digital learning modules;
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the required live sessions;
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their own well-being self-assessment and reflective work;
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the interactive Practice Lab activities;
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a short demonstration of teaching or facilitating a selected well-being topic;
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a final self-assessment and reflection on how they will apply the methodology in their own professional practice.
This combination allows you to experience the methodology personally before learning to use it with others.
What Is Included?
Your certification fee includes:
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three weeks of access to the structured certification program;
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the complete digital learning experience;
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13 learning modules;
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interactive Practice Labs and Well-Being Flower activities;
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five 90-minute live sessions with Jana Kočí;
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opportunities for teaching and facilitation practice;
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personal feedback;
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the Well-Being and Success for University Students book;
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teaching materials provided as part of the certification;
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the Well-being Specialist Certificate;
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membership in the international BEwell Specialist network.
After the Certification
Certification is not intended to be the end of the relationship.
As part of the international BEwell Specialist network, you can stay connected with other specialists and receive access to new materials and opportunities connected with the development of BEwell.
Those who would like additional support can also choose to continue through optional paid professional development, mentoring or individual consultation.
There is no requirement to continue. The option is there for specialists who want further guidance as they begin applying the methodology in their own work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a background in psychology?
No.
We start with the scientific foundations of well-being, so you do not need previous training in psychology or positive psychology. The program is designed to make the research understandable and usable while maintaining its scientific integrity.
Do I need to be a teacher?
No.
Teaching is one possible application, but not the only one. Participants may use the knowledge in counselling, coaching, student support, project work, health promotion, leadership, research, program development or other people-focused roles.
Do I need to work at a university?
No.
BEwell originated in higher education and much of the research behind it focuses on university students, but the Well-being Specialist Certification is open to professionals outside universities as well.
Is this therapy or mental-health training?
No.
This is professional education in the science and practice of well-being. It does not train participants to diagnose or treat mental-health conditions and does not replace psychological, psychiatric or other clinical training.
For therapists and counsellors, however, it can provide an additional evidence-based educational framework for understanding and working with well-being alongside their existing professional expertise.
What can I do after becoming a Well-being Specialist?
You can apply the knowledge and methodology in the way that best fits your professional role.
You may teach well-being, develop your own evidence-based course or workshops, incorporate well-being into an existing course, use appropriate activities and coaching skills in individual or group work, develop projects or programs, contribute to institutional well-being initiatives, or deliver the BEwell program itself under its name and methodology.
How is the certification assessed?
There is no traditional academic examination.
Completion is based on active participation in the learning process, including the digital modules, live sessions, personal well-being assessment and reflection, Practice Labs, and a short practical demonstration in which you apply what you have learned through teaching or facilitation.
What support is available after certification?
You become part of the international BEwell Specialist network and can stay connected with the program as it develops.
Additional professional development, mentoring and individual consultation can also be purchased if you would like further support with your own teaching, project or implementation.