Skorton Center’s Well-being Coaching pilot shows promising success
By Stephen D'Angelo, Student and Campus Life
Last fall, Cornell Health’s Skorton Center for Health Initiatives launched a Well-Being Coaching pilot program, designed to guide students in setting and pursuing their well-being goals. Well-Being Coaching is a strengths-based approach to support students’ mental health and well-being. To date, the pilot has yielded significant outcomes for participants, garnered positive feedback, and underscored its relevance to the student population.
Made possible through a generous gift from the Class of 1965, the Well-Being Coaching pilot saw a total of 147 coaching meetings booked, with over 60% representing graduate and professional students. Over 90% of respondent participants reported making progress on their well-being goals.
Preliminary results show that respondents reported significant improvements in a wide range of well-being domains after engaging in coaching, including happiness and life satisfaction, physical and mental health, character and virtue, close social relationships, and material and financial stability, with purpose and meaning showing the steepest rise.