Making Well: A Realist Evaluation 2024-5
Evidence indicates that Making Well significantly improves mood, social well-being, and feelings of connectedness in its participants. Engagement in the programme results in personal growth and healing of the participants, which is dependent upon multiple components that can be categorised as either a precondition, operationalisation component or output. These preconditions must be present for the operationalisation components of the Making Well workshops to occur, which in turn leads to multiple outputs that collectively contribute to the growth and healing of the participants. The operationalisation components have a complex positive feedback relationship with each other. Various outputs also demonstrate a positive feedback relationship with themselves and with the operationalisation components. For many participants, attending the Making Well course was a profound and transformative experience. Making Well provides the opportunity for participants to actively contribute to the development of a safe and supportive community where they can feel seen and heard. It gives them time and permission to reflect, share and gain perspective on challenges they are facing, facilitating a positive change within them that many had not previously achieved with traditional support.