Wellbeing
The benefits of regular physical activity with enjoyable social interaction are well known, but Ceilidh Craic has set out to quantify this. As a first step people at nearly 100 ceilidh fitness classes were asked to record their personal 'wellbeing' score before and after each class. Scores were allowed to range from 0 (totally unhappy) to 10 (could not get better), but no further guidance was given. A compilation of results from before and after classes is shown below.
Further work on this will be getting underway soon. If you would like to part of it, let us know please.
If you would like to learn more about this, the Folk Educators Network of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) asked me to do a Zoom presentation about it. The presentation covered the background to the study, what happened, a bit more about the results and a look forward to the future.
You can see the presentation and the subsequent discussion here:
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