For Individuals, Coaches, & Counselors

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Accessibility Statement

Empower Students to Prioritize Holistic Wellbeing

Promote student wellness and foster a culture of caring campus-wide.

Sort Out What Matters to Help Students Thrive

Whether you work in health promotion, new student programs, advising, co-curricular development, academic affairs, athletics, or other areas, WellSort can benefit your students.

By using the digital Student Wellbeing Deck, you will:

Enhance Your Wellbeing Strategy

Gain insights into students' wellbeing priorities - in real-time - for more accurate, effective planning.

Boost Student Engagement

Promote awareness of available resources to address current student needs and make a bigger impact.

Empower Faculty, Staff, and Students

Provide a proven structure for having meaningful conversations that address the 8 dimensions of wellbeing.

How It Works

Embed wellbeing into your individual department or across your entire school community.

We'll partner closely with you to better understand your specific needs, and collaborate to establish a simple, smooth, and cost-effective implementation plan that's aligned with your mission, goals, and budget.

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Step 1
Self-Assessment
Students complete a short self-reflection exercise, sorting through and categorizing 35 possible priorities rooted in the Eight Dimensions of Wellbeing.

Case Studies

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Objective: To provide a proactive and preventative campus-wide digital resource promoting the mental health and wellbeing of all WPI students.

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University of Arkansas

Objective: To help elevate the wellbeing programs offered through UREC in support of students’ wellbeing & to raise student awareness of available campus wellness resources .

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Reasons to Use a Values Card Sort Tool

Clarifies

wellbeing priorities with a quick and easy digital card sorting process.

Enhances

students' wellbeing literacy and attunement to personal needs.

Encourages

students to have meaningful conversations and better articulate their needs.

Builds

resilience so students are confident taking care of themselves.

The Wellbeing Card Sort gives us a current snapshot of student wellness priorities. We’re using this information to make strategic decisions about wellness programming to address student needs in the moment.

- Paula Fitzpatrick, Director, Center for Wellbeing, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

In addition to giving students autonomy in their wellness journey, this program elevated staff and faculty's view on how they might encourage and facilitate the wellbeing of students.

- Kaye Godbey, Coordinator of Wellness Programs, Marshall University

We were looking for a way to structure our wellness coaching sessions and better facilitate conversations with students about their well-being…the card sort has really helped structure that process, and allowed us to have better conversations with our students.

- Casey Fant, Director of Wellness & Fitness, University of Arkansas

Frequently Asked Questions

WellSort is an engaging digital card sort platform designed by a mental health counselor and health promotion researcher with over 15 years experience working in higher ed. WellSort helps college students and campus communities clarify, reflect on, and prioritize their wellbeing needs, while connecting students to the resources they need to thrive.

WellSort offers three values card sort tools: the Student Wellbeing Deck, the Employee Wellbeing Deck, and the Career Values Deck.
A values card sort is a reflective self-assessment that helps people organize, prioritize, and make sense of what’s most important in their lives. Each person interprets the card statements in their own way, bringing their unique situations and experiences to the process.

Card sorts offer helpful prompts, language, and structure to guide decision-making and personal reflection. They’re friendly, game-like, and even fun(!), making them much less intimidating than assessments that assign a “score” and can sometimes feel like a test.
The Student Wellbeing Deck includes 36 wellbeing priority cards rooted in the Eight Dimensions of Wellbeing. It helps students discover and act on what matters most to them.
Students follow a simple, guided process to sort digital wellbeing priority cards into three categories, helping them clarify what’s most important to them. Afterward, they select and reflect on their top priorities, build a personal wellbeing action plan with manageable steps, and receive information about how to connect directly with campus resources tailored to their needs, empowering them to take charge of their mental health and wellbeing.
The cards are based on the Eight Dimensions of Wellbeing. Each card statement is flexible, allowing students to apply and interpret it in their own way, and recognize that their priorities may fit into multiple wellbeing dimensions.
The digital card sort tool helps students clarify and reflect on their wellbeing needs, set realistic goals, take actionable steps, connect to relevant resources, and build wellbeing literacy and confidence. By using our platform, students learn how wellbeing dimensions connect and better understand how their needs fit into a bigger, holistic picture of wellbeing.
The Student Wellbeing Deck is a helpful tool for faculty and staff to spark supportive conversations with students, identify wellbeing challenges, and connect students to campus or community resources. By leveraging student engagement activities like a values card sort tool, colleges build a culture of caring that encourages an open, supportive environment to help students thrive.
Anyone who supports college students can use it - whether your focus is health promotion, advising, counseling, academic affairs, athletics, residence life, or co-curricular programs. The card sort benefits students across all areas of campus life.
Campuses have access to their students’ aggregate wellbeing data via an interactive, real-time data dashboard with options to filter by date and student demographics - helping align wellbeing initiatives and resources with the needs students report. This data-driven approach supports individual and community health promotion across campus.
Yes! While the experience is optimal on a laptop, desktop, or tablet, the entire card sort process can be completed on a mobile phone.
The WellSort team is always happy to answer questions, demonstrate the platform, or share examples of how other campuses use these tools. Just reach out via our contact form at the bottom of this page or email us at hello@wellsort.com!