Video: Wellbeing in Numbers | Alan Bec | TEDxBristol

Andy · Dec 20, 2017

Something quite different to Crawley's fantasies. I've not watched it yet but others have rated it.

How many times have you asked someone how they are - and they have said “fine”? In this brave and heart-warming TEDx talk, Alan Bec, an international coach and educator, reveals his fascination with how we can create more meaningful social wellbeing through communication and interaction. And as someone suffering from chronic illness, what happens when we stop communicating.

He’s someone who knows a lot about fluctuating energy and how hard it can be to communicate physical and mental pain. His life was disrupted beyond recognition when he contracted Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 2011. The effect and devastation this had on his self-identity, family and social status changed everything. He found himself learning something new: what it’s like to experience 'social death'.

But, one night he had a remarkable dream, involving numbers as a way of communicating his ill-being. The next morning, the Wellbeing Indicator Badge ® - the-wib ® was born.

In his TEDxBristol talk he explores the symbolism and science of numbered energy levels, delivered on the day with grace and humour, despite his status as a ‘4’. He shares how he found a disruptive healing solution by talking in numbers, and why you don't have to be ill to improve communication using this method.
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Andy · Dec 21, 2017

Now watched it. Good presentation by someone who obviously struggles in places due to ME, and acknowledges it. Nice idea with the Wellbeing Indicator Badge, not sure it will catch on but I hope it does. Website for it - http://the-wib.com/

Trish · Dec 21, 2017

Just watched it. Kept thinking, for goodness sake someone, give the guy a chair to sit on. Nice guy. Not sure about some of his 'science' but that probably doesn't matter.

Andy · Jan 9, 2018

Alan Bec is "on the John Darvill Mid-Morning Radio Show [on BBC Radio Bristol] , talking about living with CFS and my Wellbeing Indicator Badge the-wib Wednesday 10th at 11:10. Tune in."

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