I am a Champion
You are the person who makes well-being work inside your organisation.
The WCN gives Champions the framework to turn well-being intention into a system that makes impact.
Most well-being programmes in Singapore appoint Champions and then leave them to figure it out. No framework. No governance structure. No clear boundary between their role and everyone else’s.
The WCN changes that. It gives Champions the structure, the tools, and the community to build something that actually holds.
What Champions Actually Do
The Champion role is the governing function in the WCN’s three-tier model. You sit between the Leaders who set the direction and the Peer Supporters who deliver front-line support. Your job is to coordinate, design, and govern the well-being system that connects them, ensuring it is safe, consistent, and sustainable over time.
That means aligning roles and responsibilities, monitoring whether the system is actually working, and building the kind of documented, auditable governance that holds up when someone asks for evidence.
Most organisations appoint Champions without giving them a framework to work within. The WCN changes that.
What the WCN Offers Champions
iWorkHealth and PRISM Action Planning Workshops
These workshops give Champions a structured, facilitated process to make sense of their assessment data and turn it into concrete next steps. iWorkHealth is a free, government-developed survey tool that identifies the specific stressors affecting your workforce across nine dimensions. PRISM (Psychosocial Risk and Intervention Strategy Model) examines the systemic and structural risk factors at the organisational level. The Action Planning Workshops bridge both, helping Champions move from data to a prioritised, documented plan their organisation can act on.
Well-being Champions Programme
Currently in development, the Well-being Champions Programme is a structured certification programme in development, designed for department and site-level Champions. Completing it earns the Certified Well-being Champion (CWC) credential. It comprises three levels, each a self-contained five-day block:
CWC (Associate): well-being literacy, needs sensing, communication, initiative design, and measurement.
CWC (Professional): mental health awareness, crisis protocols, upstream resolution, and peer support system design.
CWC (Strategist): culture change, influence without authority, well-being intelligence, and organisational design.
Courses are designed to be SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG)-fundable.
Community of Practice
The WCN’s digital Community of Practice connects Champions across industries and sectors, giving you access to peers who are navigating the same challenges, sharing what works, and building a body of collective knowledge that no single organisation could develop alone. Learning Journeys, curated topic-based pathways, are available to deepen your practice in specific areas.
Events and Engagement Sessions
WCN events are not conferences. They are full-day immersive experiences where Champions, Leaders, and Peer Supporters from across organisations come together to practise, not just listen.
Expect concurrent workshops, experiential sessions, applied drama, and a closing mass participation challenge where cross-organisation teams design real workplace well-being actions to take back and implement. Past events have been held at A*STAR Infuse in partnership with WSHC.
The Champions Progression Path
Most Champions start the same way: appointed with good intentions and very little infrastructure. The WCN is designed to change that, at whatever stage you are at.
Some Champions come to the WCN before they have done anything. Others arrive mid-programme, looking for structure to put around what they have already built. A few come after things have gone wrong and they need to start again more carefully.
Wherever you are starting from, the WCN gives you the next step.
Your Capability Pathway
Becoming a Certified Well-being First Responder
The Well-being First Responder (WFR) programme is the WCN’s flagship training pathway. Completing the full Champion pathway earns you the Certified Well-being First Responder (CWFR) credential.
The programme is structured around roles. Everyone starts with the same Foundation: self-care for sustainable well-being, foundational Psychological First Aid (PFA), and psychological safety at work. From there, each role follows a track tailored to their specific function.
Your track: Certified WFR (Champion)
The Champion track adds five mandatory modules to the Foundation: Mind-Body Practices for Self Regulation, Intermediate PFA covering complex reactions and suicide awareness, Advanced PFA covering empathetic supportive conversations, and Supportive Conversations for Leaders.
You then choose one elective from options including Emotional Regulation and Mental Agility at Work, Return to Work Support after Mental Illness, Inclusive Leadership for Psychological Safety at Work, and Designing Healthy Digital and AI-enabled Workflows, plus one Mental Health Literacy elective.
The Champion track sits between the Peer Supporter and Leader tracks. It builds enough hands-on support capability to understand what your Peer Supporters are doing and enough systemic knowledge to govern the programme with confidence.
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