The Impossible Question of Living Well - A Conversation with Dr. Helen Street

“Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the
answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good
company.” This is a quote from the paediatrician, Rachel
Naomi Remen, that my guest this week quotes in her fantastic new
book The Impossible Question of Living Well: How do we hold on to
what matters, while also knowing how to let go? Dr Helen Street
has been banging the drum that living well should be a priority
of educational institutions for years, but more importantly, that
this is not a question of individual ‘hacks to happiness’ as she
talks about in this episode, but a fundamental rethinking of how
much context plays a role in enabling or preventing possibilities
for living well. It’s Helen’s second time on the podcast and I
was so happy to be able to chat to her again about her . She is a
social psychologist and educator and has worked extensively with
schools around the world since 1999. She holds a position as
Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia,
Graduate School of Education as well as adjunct research
consultant for the health department of Western Australia’s
Centre for Clinical Interventions. Helen is the Founder and
Co-Chair of the ⁠Positive Schools Initiative⁠ (PSI). Since it
s launch in 2008, the Positive Schools
Initiative has worked with over 26,000
educators from over 6000 schools and colleges;
from around Australia and 15 other countries.
Positive Schools Initiative is focused takes
an evidence-based systems approach to
building Contextual Wellbeing, positive mental health
and resilience in school staff, parents and young people.


Helen is a bestselling author and speaker and her most recent
book is The Impossible Question of Living Well: How do we hold on
to what matters, while also knowing how to let go? She is also
the author of the bestselling ⁠Contextual Wellbeing: Creating
Positive Schools from the Inside Out⁠ (2018). Her work has been
met with international acclaim and has been endorsed by His
Holiness the Dalai Lama among many others.


Social Links


LinkedIn: ⁠@helen-street⁠


X: ⁠@drhelenstreet


Instagram: drhelenstreet


Web: https://www.helenstreet.com/