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
Understand the roots of disease and compromised immunity.
Ways to stay well during prolonged stress.
Eating for Resilience and Recovery model.
Foods that impact risk of and recovery from viral infection and respiratory distress.
Protective, healing herbs and spices.
Key supplemental nutrient dose, duration and synergy.
Five wellness practices for daily use.
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.