académie du bien vivre

English translation: (integrative) wellness (lifestyle) academy

10:38 Mar 8, 2017
French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Management / Corporate Social Responsibility
French term or phrase: académie du bien vivre
This is from a French academic paper that analyses interviews with small business owners in France regarding their approach to corporate social responsibility.

One of the owners talks about wanting to engage her employees and perhaps even clients in creating: "une académie du bien vivre où il s’agira de voir comment changer un certain nombre d’habitudes personnelles ou collectives pour mieux manger, moins polluer, mieux construire etc."

It's just one quote out of many from various business owners, so the rest of the text doesn't help much, but it's all related to these owners' ideas about and approaches to CSR in the broadest sense.

Le 'bien-vivre' is always a pain to translate, so I usually work around it in some way. But not sure how to work around the notion of 'academy', especially since there is no other information about it. I'd be tempted to use an ecological/green term given the few examples offered, but that may be too specific since the paper covers CSR more generally.

I could put something like "living well academy" or "academy of good living", but those don't sound that great to met. Any more creative ideas out there?

UK english ok.

Thanks!
Diana Huet de Guerville
France
Local time: 22:59
English translation:(integrative) wellness (lifestyle) academy
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Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 15:59
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4(integrative) wellness (lifestyle) academy
Verginia Ophof
5 -1sustainable development academy
tastycomm
3an academy to promote healthier lifestyle(s) / of health challenges
Erzsébet Czopyk
3a school of proper living and well-being
Nathalie Stewart


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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
an academy to promote healthier lifestyle(s) / of health challenges


Explanation:
Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our strategy for public health in England

The dilemma for government is this: it is simply not possible to promote healthier lifestyles through Whitehall diktat and nannying about the way people should live. Recent years have proved that onesize-fits-all solutions are no good when public health challenges vary from one neighbourhood to the next. But we cannot sit back while, in spite of all this, so many people are suffering such severe lifestyle-driven ill health and such acute health inequalities.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

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Note added at 11 mins (2017-03-08 10:50:16 GMT)
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lifestyle and environmental challenges
of ecological/green lifestyle
of reduced carbon footprints
of individual and collective behavior changes

Resistance to change: A social psychological ... - NYU Psychology
https://psych.nyu.edu/.../Resistance to Change_A Social%...
John T. Jost. RESISTANCE TO. CHANGE: A SOCIAL ... toms, which McDougall regarded as collective habits formed through cultural repetition, also become ... ily “unfreeze” the individual's attitudes, ideally in a social setting in ..... college students were first exposed to a manipulation of “system.

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Note added at 13 mins (2017-03-08 10:52:05 GMT)
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academy of changing habits through a new approach

intuitive decision-making – changing habits through ... - DOBA Fakulteta
www.fakulteta.doba.si/.../Intuitive-decision-making-Changin...
CHANGING HABITS THROUGH NEW BUSINESS APPROACHES, .... the mind easier we divide it into the unconscious (individual and collective) and the ...

Erzsébet Czopyk
Hungary
Local time: 22:59
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
a school of proper living and well-being


Explanation:
(A suggestion)

+ Interesting article here on DEFINING HEALTH AND WELL-BEING:
http://thedaylightsite.com/architecture-for-well-being-and-h...

covering everything from health, comfort, happiness, satisfaction with the environment, feeling good and functioning well, etc.

Nathalie Stewart
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
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39 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
sustainable development academy


Explanation:
The term is quite popular on Google, there's even a real 'academy' who does that. :D


    Reference: http://sdacademy.rec.org/
tastycomm
Belgium
Local time: 22:59
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  writeaway: the term may be popular on Google but with 100% confidence, it should also tie in with the term being asked
1 hr

disagree  Daryo: "The term is quite popular on Google" ? So what??? In which way does it make suitable for this particular ST? That sounds like the methods of the not-so-good probabilistic Machine Translation ... advocated by protein-based "translation devices"?
7 hrs
  -> If you don't like it, don't like it. But don't go all personal attack and flame on me. I'm a SEO specialist, it's my job to find words that give the most visibility to clients.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
(integrative) wellness (lifestyle) academy


Explanation:
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Example sentence(s):
  • Integrative Wellness & Life Coach

    https://integrativewellnessacademy.com/
Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 15:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thanks!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for the suggestion, I ended up building on your idea and putting "sustainable lifestyle academy".


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  writeaway: where does integrative enter into the term actually asked?/but it's not in the original term. I don't agree with over-translation/embellishment. I do agree more with lifestyle than wellness. Wellness goes of into other directions
12 mins
  -> combining all these :changer un certain nombre d’habitudes personnelles ou collectives pour mieux manger, moins polluer, mieux construire etc

agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: wellness academy
21 mins
  -> Thank you Nikki !!

agree  AllegroTrans: lifestyle academy
25 mins
  -> Thank you AjjegroTrans ! Yes : Wellness lifestyle academy !!

agree  Yvonne Gallagher: "lifestyle academy" pure and simple
2 hrs
  -> Thank you Gallagy !

agree  philgoddard: Wellness doesn't work in my opinion, because it's also about your impact on other people ("moins polluer"). But lifestyle is good.
2 hrs
  -> Thank you philgoddard !
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