In the space of SPHE in particular, we argue that a concept of authentic wellbeing needs to be able to embrace challenging issues of human vulnerability, illbeing and suffering as inescapable aspects of human experience that frequently elude our knowledge. We hope to recover and explore this more personal and challenging human space of wellbeing by delving into the well of wellbeing, and particularly in the latter part of the paper by considering an examples of teacher/student relationship in a traumatic classroom situation, as expressed in the award winning film Monsieur Lazhar.