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Built on 30 years of development, research and transformative results

TheWEL is an award-winning approach that restores and creates health using a different compass. Its innovative models turn today’s crises of health into transformative changes – in you as an individual, and scaled up in organisations, systems and policies. 

Scientific tracking shows most participants achieve self-sustaining improved psychological wellbeing, fatigue levels, capacity to self-care, self-compassion, quality of daily life, symptom intensity, reduced drug use and improved preventative blood markers for the long term conditions pandemics - such as Vitamin D, Omega 3 and fasting insulin levels. 

TheWEL’s vision releases our capacity to transform – rather than just manage – the rising international tide of pandemics of long term conditions and loss of wellbeing that are neither being prevented nor fixed by our current maps of care, like:

Diabetes • Stress • Obesity • Fatigue

The Public Health Institute of Scotland credited this work as pioneering the needed  'Fifth Wave'  of fresh thinking in health and prevention. TheWEL approach closes 'the Living Gap' underpinning our crises of health, climate and environment, the gap that opens when we placed our wants above what Life needs to flourish.

Dr David Reilly, an internationally renowned doctor and researcher,  created TheWEL from direct clinical testing, and joined with Paul McColgan, a leader in social enterprise, to bring wider access to the benefits of TheWEL.  You can start your own WEL Journey on this site with the free COVIDWEL course.  Please contact us if you want to explore bringing these benefits to your community and colleagues.

The Free COVIDWEL Course

The CovidWEL course offers you immediately useful, hands-on support for your wellbeing, health and resilience during this difficult era, and then beyond, after COVID.  It will help you to help yourself.  ​​It is completely free as a contribution in these hard times.

The course distils three hours from the full 20-hour WEL course - an evidence-based approach scientifically proven to help people transform their wellbeing.

The COVIDWEL is in 2 parts: ​​

  • In Part 1, we explore the 'missing edge' of the Pandemic Triangle - your ability to resist infection and recover from it. This complements our current critical preventative measures and treatments.  We examine how the 'soil' of poor health allows the 'seed' of the virus to take deeper root. Then we focus on ways to tackle our mental health, wellbeing and coping challenges and ways that shift our perceptions and activate our self-care as we navigate the storms of the pandemic. 
  • ​​In Part 2, we narrow our focus onto specific steps you can take immediately to strengthen your resilience to infection and your recovery from it. You will learn three key targeted areas for action with your nutrition.
  • Everything you learn in the COVIDWEL will be of great ongoing value to you when the pandemic is over, helping you turn your way of living around.
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TheWEL in 9 minutes

In this short video, Dr David Reilly introduces his work on the Healing Shift Enquiry and TheWEL Programme, its principles, key learning points and results.

Testimonial

Testimonial

If it was not for what I learned on TheWEL course, I would be on Insulin now for my diabetes, and on anti-depressants… it has transformed my life….  I want now to help bring what I learned to others.

WEL participant and now partner

Coming Soon - TheWEL Online

TheWEL online will guide you through the full version of Dr Reilly's award-winning Wellness Enhancement Learning Course that has been scientifically proven to help people enhance their wellness and self-care, often to a transformative degree.

TheWEL online will be available on this site from September 2023.

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What We Offer

 

  • The COVIDWEL - a free course to support people build resilience to and better recover from the COVID virus.
  • StaffWEL Programmes - to provide a lived experience of embarking on a WEL journey that places self-care and wellness at the centre of workers’ professional lives and through them spreads this learning to the workplace, patients and clients.
  • Facilitator Training - to enable your staff to deliver WEL programmes in your organisation or community.
  • TheWEL Leader - course to transform your wellness and future proof your health.
  • WEL Leader Coaching - to accelerate and deepen your journey towards wellness through 1-1 support.
  • TheWEL Online - a full in-depth interactive self-led WEL course - launching June 2021.
  • TheWEL Organisation - support to build a culture of wellness in your organisation leading to increased flourishing of your workforce

Who We Are

Dr David Reilly
Dr David Reilly Director - TheWEL Charity, Co-founder and Director - TheWEL World

Dr David Reilly

David is an internationally recognised award-winning pioneer in health, a leader in reforming medical care and self-care, therapeutic relationship, and developing new holistic models emphasising human capacity for flourishing and healing. Over 40 years as an NHS doctor (FRCP MRCGP DSc(Hon)); former NHS Consultant Physician; academic researcher and teacher; created TheWEL Programmes and founded the linked charity.

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Paul McColgan

Paul McColgan

Paul has spent the past 25 years at the frontline of tackling health inequalities in Scotland’s most deprived neighbourhoods. As founder and CEO of Community Renewal Group he pioneered a range of holistic approaches resulting in sustained transformation for individuals, families and communities. Paul is a former board member of NHS Health Scotland and is the current Social Enterprise Champion of Scotland.

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