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Wellbeing Matters

An Okanagan Charter Implementation Toolkit

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Wellbeing Matters

An Okanagan Charter Implementation Toolkit

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Why Wellbeing Matters

About This Toolkit

How to Use This Toolkit

Who Is This Toolkit For

Getting Started

Health-Promoting Environments

The Okanagan Charter

PPC Safety

EDIA

5-Step Implementation Guide

Overview

Key Components

Putting into Practice

Cases

Roles

Resources

Overview

Key Components

Putting into Practice

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Overview

Key Components

Putting into Practice

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Tools & Resources

Develop and Implement Health-Promoting Policy

A visual overview of why policy matters, the key components of effective health-promoting policy, and the steps for putting policy into practice.

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A practical guide for conducting a structured policy review, from clarifying purpose and gathering perspectives to identifying gaps and planning improvements.

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A quick assessment tool to help faculties identify where they are in the policy implementation pathway and where further development may be needed.

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A pulse-check survey for understanding how policies are working in practice and how they affect fairness, inclusion, wellbeing, and workplace culture.

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A collection of complementary filters and lenses to help identify potential impacts on wellbeing, equity, accessibility, participation, culture, sustainability, and human values.

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Create Sustainable, Supportive, and Inclusive Spaces

A framework for prioritizing space improvements by considering foundational needs alongside longer-term goals for inclusion, wellbeing, and connection.

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A one-page reference highlighting key considerations for creating accessible, inclusive, restorative, safe, and adaptable spaces.

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A practical checklist for reviewing accessibility, inclusion, wellbeing, safety, culture, and sustainability across learning and work environments.

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A set of questions to help explore space-related needs and experiences through interviews, focus groups, walkthroughs, or surveys.

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A practical template for turning observations, audit findings, and feedback into prioritized actions and longer-term improvements.

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Practical, low-cost ideas for improving accessibility, inclusion, wellbeing, safety, and the day-to-day experience of shared spaces.

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A collection of tools and approaches for assessing spaces, engaging users, planning improvements, and supporting continuous improvement.

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Foster Health-Promoting Medical Communities and Culture

Practical examples of everyday interactions, communication practices, and team behaviours that can strengthen psychological safety, respect, inclusion, and wellbeing in academic medicine.

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A simple three-step protocol for supporting someone after a difficult, upsetting, or traumatic event when there has been no physical injury or shock.

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Guidance for using structured or semi-structured debriefing to support reflection, learning, teamwork, wellbeing, and continuous improvement.

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Principles for creating learning and work environments grounded in safety, trust, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural awareness.

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Reflection prompts to explore the informal messages, behaviours, values, and cultural norms that shape experiences within learning and work environments.

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Reflection questions and practical examples to help teams consider how trust, inclusion, communication, and shared accountability influence psychological safety.

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A collection of additional tools, practices, and approaches that can support psychological safety, learning, inclusion, wellbeing, and organizational culture.

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A visual resource highlighting the characteristics and practices that contribute to a kind, compassionate, and respectful culture.

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A visual overview of nine organizational strategies that can help institutions promote wellbeing across their environments, systems, and practices.

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Encourage, Support and Sustain Meaningful Personal Development

A practical template for identifying areas for growth, current strengths and supports, goals, and achievable actions related to personal or professional development.

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A reflection and preparation tool to support thoughtful, respectful, and psychologically safe conversations involving feedback, conflict, workload, boundaries, wellbeing, and team dynamics.

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A guide for creating structured opportunities to reflect on experiences, share perspectives, and strengthen connection, communication, wellbeing, and personal development in a psychologically safe environment.

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A structured, inclusive, and action-oriented approach for using the Nominal Group Technique to explore complex healthcare culture challenges, generate ideas, and build consensus on priorities.

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A ready-to-use facilitator script for guiding a 75-minute Nominal Group Technique session focused on creating thriving medical communities and culture.

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A collection of Canadian medical education, physician wellbeing, leadership, professional development, and mental health resources to support ongoing personal and professional growth.

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Review, Develop, and Strengthen Faculty Health Services

A practical tool to help faculties map existing health services, supports, and initiatives and identify opportunities for stronger coordination and integration.

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A checklist to help faculties assess the accessibility, coordination, and effectiveness of existing health services and identify areas for improvement.

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A collection of examples to help faculties consider the range of health service supports and initiatives that can contribute to a health-promoting environment.

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Collaborate & Invest in Continuous Quality Improvement and Evaluation

A practical roadmap for learning, action, and sustained improvement in Faculties of Medicine.

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A practical template for identifying improvement opportunities, planning responses, monitoring progress, and capturing learning over time.

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A structured template for communicating how feedback, evaluation findings, and lived experiences inform decisions and improvement efforts.

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A quick reference for matching evaluation questions with appropriate measures and approaches.

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A guide to combining wellbeing, implementation, engagement, culture, and lived-experience measures to understand whether conditions are improving.

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A quick reference to commonly used measures of wellbeing, burnout, professional fulfillment, and related concepts in academic medicine.

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Developed by the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada’s Culture of Academic Medicine Initiative (CAMI) in collaboration with the Okanagan Charter Collaborative.

Suggested Citation

Do, V. Wellbeing Matters: An Okanagan Charter Implementation Toolkit. Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC), Culture of Academic Medicine Initiative – Towards Improved Provider Safety (CAMI-TIPS); 2026. Available from: [URL placeholder]

Help Improve the Toolkit 

We welcome your feedback to help improve future versions of the toolkit. Questions, suggestions, and corrections are always appreciated.

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Developed by the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada’s Culture of Academic Medicine Initiative (CAMI) in collaboration with the Okanagan Charter Collaborative.

Suggested Citation

Do, V. Wellbeing Matters: An Okanagan Charter Implementation Toolkit. Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC), Culture of Academic Medicine Initiative – Towards Improved Provider Safety (CAMI-TIPS); 2026. Available from: [URL placeholder]

Help Improve the Toolkit 

We welcome your feedback to help improve future versions of the toolkit. Questions, suggestions, and corrections are always appreciated.

Contact the CAMI Team

Wellbeing Matters: An Okanagan Charter Implementation Toolkit ⋅ Version 1.0 ⋅ September 2026