FLAME with Brad Hook
The Best Well-being Frameworks Explained: PERMA, SPIRE, Flow, Māori Wisdom & More
What does it mean to live well? A guided tour of the world's most influential well-being models — from PERMA and SPIRE to Te Whare Tapa Whā — and how to actually use them.
Across psychology, indigenous wisdom, leadership research and well-being science, dozens of frameworks try to answer the same question. This episode walks through the most influential: PERMA, SPIRE, Te Whare Tapa Whā, Ryff's psychological well-being, Gallup's five elements, Maslow, flow and peak states, McKinsey's holistic model, the eight dimensions of well-being, Life by Design, and the Resilience Institute's spiral.
Rather than rigid steps or checklists, the point is perspective: each model is a lens, and knowing several lets you see your own life more clearly. A compact reference episode you'll come back to — and a natural companion to the five dimensions of FLAME.
In this episode
- PERMA and SPIRE in plain language
- Te Whare Tapa Whā — the Māori four-walled house of health
- Flow, peak states and when they matter
- Gallup, Ryff, Maslow and McKinsey's models compared
- Frameworks as lenses, not checklists
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