Staff members are faced with increasing challenges in life and the workplace, including stress and burnout due to digital overload, career insecurity and an increasingly competitive funding landscape. These pressures threaten well-being and empowerment in both personal and professional life.

This workshop, based upon the SWEPPP Project (Sustainable Well-being – Education for Personal, Professional, and Planetary Well-being) and the Wellbeing4Sustainability programme concept, reframes well-being as a key component within professional development. Cultivating well-being, digital balance and emotional regulation promotes empowerment and resilience, not to mention boosting the level of happiness, job satisfaction and morale of individuals and their teams.

Drawing on evidence-based practices from positive psychology and energy psychology, the programme introduces tools including good well-being habits for participants to introduce in their day to day lives. These approaches are designed to strengthen personal well-being, enhance professional effectiveness, and build capacity for authentic engagement with fellow professionals and the planet.

Results highlight how well-being-focused training can be embedded into professional development structures, creating recognition pathways where well-being is equally valued alongside technical expertise.

By integrating personal, professional, and planetary well-being in the workplace, the participants will be equipped with the tools they need to prioritize their own wellbeing and emotional intelligence, thrive in their roles, foster resilient career trajectories, and contribute to more sustainability, ethics and inclusiveness in their work.

By the end of the workshop, participants will:

• Learn and implement good wellbeing habits, including: gratitude, nutrition and mindfulness;
• Find out whether their digital habits are promoting their wellbeing or contributing to "Technostress" through a digital self-assessment, and good habits to implement to reduce digital overload;
• A simple, self-applied Emotional Regulation Tool called Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to contribute to one's own Emotional Intelligence;
• Pranayama (life force energy) breathwork techniques, which, applied over time, are proven to reduce stress, improve focus and concentration and improve organ function and overall physical health.

Angie Mifsud is a Senior Manager at the University of Malta’s Research Support Services Directorate and an Energy Psychology and Somatic Alignment practitioner. With extensive experience in EU research funding and project management, she bridges professional expertise with a deep commitment to personal and emotional well-being. Angie develops and facilitates workshops on emotional regulation, resilience, and alignment, helping individuals release limiting beliefs and strengthen authentic engagement. Through her secondment to Steinbeis SIT in Berlin, she co-leads the Wellbeing4Sustainability programme concept, equipping researchers and managers with practical tools to thrive professionally while promoting sustainable, inclusive, and human-centred research cultures.

Ela is the Director of the Steinbeis School of Sustainable Innovation and Transformation, based in Berlin, Germany. She has nearly 15 years of experience in sustainability education and management and has led a wide range of educational projects addressing different aspects of sustainability, from circular economy to corporate sustainability reporting. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with diverse organizations and stakeholders, including SMEs, universities, and students.

Her current work focuses on well-being as a driver for social and behavioral change in support of sustainable transformation. Over the past two years, she has been developing projects and educational materials on sustainable well-being in university contexts and has facilitated workshops on personal, professional, and planetary well-being.