The Student Wellbeing Ambassador Programme (SWAP) is an online course designed to train a group of teenage students in the psychology of wellbeing. It also gives them the tools to influence their peers to effect culture-wide behaviour change for improved wellbeing.
We all want the same thing – happy, successful students. And the evidence is clear – when you teach students about wellbeing, it not only improves their wellbeing, it also improves their academic performance (Adler 2016, Lindorff 2020)
There’s also clear evidence that the people students are most influenced by, when it comes to sustained behaviour change, are other students (Paluck et al 2019).