Wellness Works

Wellness is a process of creating vitality, building resilience, and living intentionally to support life within and around us. Community wellness emerges as individuals, families, workplaces, and institutions make wellness a priority for one and for all. To create a just, diverse, equitable and inclusive society, barriers to wellness programs and services must be turned into stepping stones toward community learning. 

Research documents that people who follow a single wellness practice such as eating well, movement, mindfulness, healing relationship, and service, live longer and cope better than people who rarely practice these proven, health promoting, disease preventing behaviors. 

Wellness works when people reflect and respond, rather than react to stress. We will demonstrate how to integrate five restorative wellness practices into your daily routine. We will test the hypothesis that if one wellness practice works, the effect of following three, four or five wellness practices, will be exponentially greater.

With our roots in our five wellness practices, Eating for Health™ and our theory of change, we want to transform our experience of wellness to integrate individuals, communities, institutions and the planet for all, with justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.

Our quarterly nine days of wellness week invites all participants to celebrate our collective journey towards oneness. With that journey in mind, we encourage everyone to watch the 2:23 min. trailer below and the 84 min. award-winning feature length documentary about twelve students in Michigan whose lives are challenged by being “othered” and whose struggles and triumphs reveal the resilience of the human spirit.