Getting Started with Wellbeing

Wellbeing

Booost Wellbeing provides materials to support you throughout your day across your events and tasks. From study and wellbeing resources, to features to promote and support reflection, or Reach out to your support systems when things are tough.

Focus on Wellbeing

Booost your day can support you in making time for your wellbeing in your calendar by blocking out sessions in your calendar to Focus on Wellbeing.

• When focussing on wellbeing, you can click on the event in the ‘Calendar’ view, and Booost will suggest checklist items to support you in taking time to look after yourself.
• Need some help? Related resources at the bottom of the Focus on Wellbeing events suggest strategies like our Take a Minute video series and other resources to help you improve your wellbeing.

Reflect and look back

Reflect on your day gives an opportunity to track mood scale and quickly capture how your day has been, and add notes information about what you did and how it made you feel. Booost can remind you to Reflect with a notification through the mobile app.

Look back provides a way to review previous Reflect entries to help you see your successes or spot patterns to support you when things are tough.

To Reflect:

1. Open the Booost app on a mobile device.
2. Click on ‘Wellbeing’ or the heart and hand icon (wellbeing icon).
3. Scroll to ‘Reflect on your day’.

4. Choose a rating for your day, from ‘Really good’ to ‘Really bad’.
5. Add a note, or click ‘Skip’.

To Look Back:

1. Open the Booost app on a mobile device.
2. Click on ‘Wellbeing’ or the heart and hand icon (wellbeing icon).
3. Scroll to ‘Look back’
4. You can look at your reflections from the past 7 days.
5. Click on a reflection entry to view any notes you have added.
6. Click ‘Load more’ at the bottom of the page to load another 7 days.

Reach out

In the Booost app, Reach out provides a quick way to contact one or more people in your support system when you need support.

Once you have set up your contact list and message in the Reach out settings, Reach out to have your message and chosen contacts automatically filled into an SMS, RCS, or iMessage.

To send a Reach out message

1. Open the Booost app on a mobile device.
2. Click on ‘Wellbeing’ or the heart and hand icon (wellbeing icon).
3. Click ‘Reach out now’ in the ‘Wellbeing’ view.

4. Tap the name of the contacts you would like to send the message to.
5. If you want to edit the Reach out message, tap into the ‘Your message’ text box.
6. Click ‘Send to _ recipient(s)’.
7. This will auto-fill the message and contact details in an SMS, RCS, or iMessage.
8. Click send on the SMS, RCS, or iMessage.

Shout

Shout 85258 is a free, confidential, anonymous text support service that you can access from within the Booost app. It provides you with specialist support if you are struggling to cope and need to talk, day or night.

Texting the the Shout 85258 will start a conversation with a trained Shout Volunteer, who will text you back and forth. You only need to share what you feel comfortable with and our volunteers will work with you to take your next steps towards feeling better.

To contact Shout through the Booost mobile app:

1. Tap on the yellow wellbeing icon in the centre of the app menu
2. Tap ‘Contact Shout’
3. Tap ‘Ask Shout to get in touch’
4. This will open up your phone's default messaging app and create a message with 'SHOUT from Booost' in it, ready to send to the Shout 85258 service
5. You can modify the message if you'd like, or send it as it is - by including the phrase 'SHOUT from Booost' we are then able to see anonymised data about how often the service is used from the Booost app
6. Click on the send button in your messaging app to send the message and wait for a response
7. The Shout service will always try to respond to messages as quickly as possible, however responses will be longer at times of high demand. We will always respond to high risk texters as a priority
8. If you are at imminent risk, call 999

Resource library

Booost provides access to a range of expert study guides and wellbeing resources. You can access the guides using 'Related resources' at the bottom of events, tasks, or Booost your day sessions. Alternatively, you can access the whole resource library to browse through the different guides from the ‘Wellbeing’ view:

1. Tap the wellbeing icon in the mobile app menu, or click the wellbeing menu item in the web app
2. Click ‘Resource library’
3. Select a category followed by the article you wish to read
4. Click to open the article