AI and the Seven Dimensions of Wellness

Most AI training begins with a practical question: How do I use this tool? This session takes one step back and asks a more human question: What is using this tool doing to me?

Drawing on the Seven Dimensions of Wellness framework developed by Bill Hettler and the National Wellness Institute, this course explores how AI can both support and strain a working life. Rather than treating AI only as a productivity tool, we will look at how it touches emotional, social, physical, intellectual, spiritual, environmental, and occupational wellbeing.

Participants will begin with a brief self-assessment, then move through a guided exploration of where AI helps, where it quietly adds pressure, and where boundaries may be needed. We will also take a hands-on look at the environmental footprint of AI and consider what responsible use looks like beyond individual convenience.

The session is designed for staff who want to use AI thoughtfully without letting it intensify the very demands it promises to ease. By the end, participants will have a shared vocabulary for noticing AI’s effects on their wellbeing, along with two or three practical strategies for making AI adoption more sustainable, intentional, and humane.

The productivity story often promises that AI will save time. This course tells the quieter second half of that story: when time is saved, work often flows in to fill it. The goal is not to reject AI, but to integrate it in ways that expand capacity without depleting the person using it.