Resilience and Recovery

Wellness Skills Training

Justification

The current pandemic has opened a Pandora’s Box of risk and opportunity. Information is being shared, worldwide on best practices for ways to manage risk and contain infection from COVID-19 and subsequent variations. This viral threat can be the wake-up call our global family needs to pivot from feeling personally endangered to becoming collectively empowered. People with pre-existing health conditions such as asthma, diabetes and heart disease are at higher risk of hospitalization and death due to COVID-19. By and large, natural practices and remedies to build host defense have been overlooked in favor of pharmaceuticals, vaccines and emergency medical interventions. Diet and lifestyle play a critical role in fortifying the immune system to help the body fight off and resolve infections of all varieties.

Resilience and Recovery: Wellness Skills Training (RNR) will teach practical self-care skills in the domains of diet, movement, mindfulness, relationship and service, to build health, mitigate disease risk and promote well-being. We will measure self-reported program impact by tracking indicators of improved health, cost saving and self-efficacy through pre and post surveys.

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the roots of disease and compromised immunity.

  2. Ways to stay well during prolonged stress.

  3. Eating for Resilience and Recovery model.

  4. Foods that impact risk of and recovery from viral infection and respiratory distress.

  5. Protective, healing herbs and spices.

  6. Key supplemental nutrient dose, duration and synergy.

  7. Five wellness practices for daily use.

  8. Post viral recovery program.

Class Topics

Level One: Nutrition

  • Eating For Resilience and Recovery

  • Pandemic Protection Power Foods

  • Key herbs, spices, and booster foods for protection

  • Nutrients for immune, respiratory, nerve and cardiovascular support

Level Two: Movement and Mindfulness

  • Relationship of Stress and Immunity

  • Joyful Movement — beginning and intermediate practices

  • Meditation and Mindfulness Practice

  • 15 minute Movement and Mindfulness — family or work shared practice

Level Three: Relationship and Service

  • Relationship of Post Traumatic Stress and Immunity

  • Healing Relationship Criteria

  • Turning Conflict into Collaboration

  • Facilitating Transformation Through Service

  • Class Format

  • Check in — Report on Challenges and Progress

  • Main Lesson

  • Break Out Group Discussion

  • Weekly Commitment and Affirmation

Assessment

  • Diet, Lifestyle and Health Concern Survey

  • Wellness Practice Survey

  • Monthly use of health care system

Impact: Data Collection and Reporting

  • Individual Pre-, Post- and Follow-up Data

  • Group Data Collected for Same Term

  • Report Written for Each Program

Outcome

  • Health benefit measured by improvement in diet, lifestyle and health concerns.

  • Reduced use of the health care system: fewer medical visits.

  • Self-health benefits as measured by improvements in wellness practices.