In conclusion, we have presented a novel approach to understanding and improving and improving wellbeing, connecting psychological science with a social ecological approach that considers the individual in the context of community and the wider environment. Our GENIAL framework provides Our GENIAL framework provides a solid foundation for future research on the wellbeing of the individual as well as the communities and environments within which the individual lives. In doing so, lives. In doing so, we hope that this framework and updated theoretical review framework and updated theoretical review helps to move the science of wellbeing forward to a more ethical and moral science that considers the wellbeing of current as well as as well as future generations, alerting researchers to consider generations, alerting researchers to consider the implications and implications and context of one of the greatest challenges to face mankind: climate change. Wellbeing researchers ignore this context at their peril, and it is time that funding bodies take a more supportive stance of the transdisciplinary science that is urgently needed. We look forward to a future well-funded transdisciplinary science that embraces the science of behavioural change to improve the wellbeing of not just the individual, but also of communities, society at large and the wider environment, bearing in mind the potential positive impacts that improved community and environmental wellbeing will also have at the individual level. change. Wellbeing researchers ignore this context at their peril, and it is time that funding bodies take a more supportive stance of the transdisciplinary science that is urgently needed to better understand relationships and inter-dependencies between individual, community and environmental wellbeing. We look forward to a future well-funded scientific effort that embraces the science of behavioural change to improve the wellbeing of not just the individual, but also of communities, society at large and the wider environment, bearing in mind the potential positive impacts that improved community and environmental wellbeing will also have at the individual level.

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the support of Swansea University and the National Health Service in recognising and promoting our work through various awards including the university Research and Innovation Award for Outstanding Impact on Health and wellbeing (2018) and the Swansea Bay University Health Board Chairman's VIP Award for Commitment to Research and Learning (2018). We would also like to express our heartfelt thanks for the support of our service users, with whom we have built and implemented a novel and innovative positive psychotherapy intervention that is based on our GENIAL theoretical framework. This intervention is now being supported by grant funding from Health and Care Research Wales through the Research for Public Patient Benefit Scheme.