R. Anne Abbott, PhD. FAACVPR, CWWPM Professor Emeritus of Health Promotion, UWSP NWI Board of Directors Principal of Abbott Solutions, Inc. http://abbottsolutionsinc.com/
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So tonight –we are seeing: 7 different views of - What is the legacy of wellness? For me Legacy means – something transmitted by or received from a past ancestor
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My grandma –
[Annie Gentry-Stone]
She certainly influenced my early life. I learned:
1. How to Dip snuff, take advantage of any new adventure-My first taxi ride where we smoked my first cigarette
2. I learned from her that “You are ok, just the way you are”! That dressing-up meant putting on a clean apron.
3. And the most important, was to be proud of my Appalachian roots and values
I'm a woman from the Appalachian Mountains, who struggled to get an education. I learned to take risk, fall down and get up again,
I believed John F. Kennedy when he said "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
The Kennedys deaths certainly told me there was no Camelot.
And - Like any young person, I set off to disprove everything my Grandma had ever taught me
My "legacy of an ancient philosopher" came from a strong country woman !
My grandma –
[Annie Gentry-Stone]
She certainly influenced my early life. I learned:
1. How to Dip snuff, take advantage of any new adventure-My first taxi ride where we smoked my first cigarette
2. I learned from her that “You are ok, just the way you are”! That dressing-up meant putting on a clean apron.
3. And the most important, was to be proud of my Appalachian roots and values
I'm a woman from the Appalachian Mountains, who struggled to get an education. I learned to take risk, fall down and get up again,
I believed John F. Kennedy when he said "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
The Kennedys deaths certainly told me there was no Camelot.
And - Like any young person, I set off to disprove everything my Grandma had ever taught me
My Appalachian roots in story telling and being touched early by the impact of death brought me indirectly to the questions WHY? and How? And a big dose of curiosity that moved me toward my own vision/dream
My Legacy journey was both personal and professional
My Appalachian roots in story telling and being touched early by the impact of death brought me indirectly to the questions WHY? and How?
And a big dose of curiosity that moved me toward my own vision/dream
I moved to Florida State University to do a masters degree so I could teach at the university level.
It was in the mountains and south that I experienced the injustice of lack of equal rights of women and minorities.
As a young woman coach of a predominantly black-women’s volleyball team, I learned the importance of Title IX,
and at age 23.....
I found Death to be my teacher, at Marshall University, in Huntington, West-by-God-Va.
In the 1970 plane crash, that took the lives of 36 players on the Marshall University football team. crash of Southern Airways flight 932 on November 14, 1970. A total of 75 people died in the crash.
Turning Point 1
It was here, that lead me to my first turning point that drove my work in wellness!
With half of my senior class missing after the plane crash, I started my own hero’s journey toward my own vision/dream, {Do you have to have a dream/vision?}
I found, I wanted to teach about life and find ways to help others. but at 23, I became a seeker of the meaning of life because I didn't know enough to teach others.
In 1972, and with an empty promise of a job in Atlanta, and a lover in NYC, I left teaching-
started out again, with a hunting dog and moved to Brooklyn, overlooking Bed-Stuy.
Being Very linear and logical at the time, I didn’t know it was only, the beginning of my hero’s journey!
It was the late 60’s and I left the conservative and simple life of Appalachian Mountains of East TN, just wanting to be a find the answers to why and how of exercise science.
I moved to Florida State University to do a masters degree so I could teach at the university level.
It was in the mountains and south that I experienced the injustice of lack of equal rights of women and minorities.
As a young woman coach of a predominantly black-women’s volleyball team, I learned the importance of Title IX,
and at age 23.....
I found Death to be my teacher, at Marshall University, in Huntington, West-by-God-Va.
In the 1970 plane crash, that took the lives of 36 players on the Marshall University football team. crash of Southern Airways flight 932 on November 14, 1970. A total of 75 people died in the crash.
Turning Point 1
It was here, that lead me to my first turning point that drove my work in wellness!
With half of my senior class missing after the plane crash, I started my own hero’s journey toward my own vision/dream,
{Do you have to have a dream/vision?}
I found, I wanted to teach about life and find ways to help others.
but at 23, I became a seeker of the meaning of life because I didn't know enough to teach others.
In 1972, and with an empty promise of a job in Atlanta, and a lover in NYC, I left teaching-
started out again, with a hunting dog and moved to Brooklyn, overlooking Bed-Stuy.
Being Very linear and logical at the time, I didn’t know it was only, the beginning of my hero’s journey!
Having an Appalachian accent and changing trains in Harlem everyday to get to the Bronx, I learned that prejudice was not just a southern thing -
After working 3 years, for Dr. Zohman, I had an opportunity to become the first woman, ACSM Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Director (and was grandfathered in with 34 male leaders in exercise physiology and medicine).
Turning Point 2
I became quite active in the ACSM and at age 32, helped establish national guidelines and certification for cardiac rehabilitation and clinical exercise physiologists.
My experience with Dr. Zohman, and being ACSM certified, became my ticket to graduate school (PHD) –
(I was honored, to be an editor for the 1975 edition of the ACSM Guidelines. However, I told them I couldn’t type (my way of creating equity), but I did, become their only dance partner – at age 32, I gained some wonderful mentors and helped with the creation of first American College of Sports Medicine, certification program in cardiac rehabilitation.)
Turning Point 3
After becoming a DIRECTOR OF CARDIOPULMONARY REHAB AT LARGE URBAN HOSPITAL I became a Founding Fellow in the AACVPR . And contributed to developing standardized programming and best practices for in-hospital and outpatient cardiopulmonary rehabilitation.
Much like some of you at age 40, I hit an obstacle in the path bigger than me, (my ego). And like a old country song, my lover left me, my dad a-n-d my dog died. I had post partum depression from birthing a PhD on women and heart disease (1981). In the mean time my weight dropped to 125lbs. I became a runner, and looked great. Little did anyone know I had lost my ability to concentrate and was running so I wouldn’t cry! Does any of this sound familiar to your journey?
After 6 months and my last $5, I found a woman in the NYC phone directory named Dr. Lenore R. Zohman, and a pioneer in Cardiac Rehab. I talked her into giving me a job.
Having an Appalachian accent and changing trains in Harlem everyday to get to the Bronx, I learned that prejudice was not just a southern thing -
After working 3 years, for Dr. Zohman, I had an opportunity to become the first woman, ACSM Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Director (and was grandfathered in with 34 male leaders in exercise physiology and medicine).
Turning Point 2
I became quite active in the ACSM and at age 32, helped establish national guidelines and certification for cardiac rehabilitation and clinical exercise physiologists.
My experience with Dr. Zohman, and being ACSM certified, became my ticket to graduate school (PHD) –
(I was honored, to be an editor for the 1975 edition of the ACSM Guidelines. However, I told them I couldn’t type (my way of creating equity), but I did, become their only dance partner – at age 32, I gained some wonderful mentors and helped with the creation of first American College of Sports Medicine, certification program in cardiac rehabilitation.)
Turning Point 3
After becoming a DIRECTOR OF CARDIOPULMONARY REHAB AT LARGE URBAN HOSPITAL I became a Founding Fellow in the AACVPR . And contributed to developing standardized programming and best practices for in-hospital and outpatient cardiopulmonary rehabilitation.
Much like some of you at age 40, I hit an obstacle in the path bigger than me, (my ego). And like a old country song, my lover left me, my dad a-n-d my dog died. I had post partum depression from birthing a PhD on women and heart disease (1981). In the mean time my weight dropped to 125lbs. I became a runner, and looked great. Little did anyone know I had lost my ability to concentrate and was running so I wouldn’t cry! Does any of this sound familiar to your journey?
The short story is I crashed, I Experience, first hand the Transformation following burn out at 39, asking "Is this all there is?"
I met Jack and Elaine at a workshop in Ohio. Elaine Sullivan re-enforced in me that each of us has a story, and it is our story.
It was the late 70's early 80's. I, like many baby-boomers returned to the land and became a seeker. [of self-actualization]. Along the way I found many self-help books that jumped from their shelves to me; Like - Chop Wood Carry Water, Illusions, Travis and Regina Ryan's Wellness Workbook, and later Travis Wellness Workbook for Professionals [1991].
Turning Point 4
The short story is I crashed, I Experience, first hand the Transformation following burn out at 39, asking "Is this all there is?"
I met Jack and Elaine at a workshop in Ohio. Elaine Sullivan re-enforced in me that each of us has a story, and it is our story.
It was the late 70's early 80's. I, like many baby-boomers returned to the land and became a seeker. [of self-actualization]. Along the way I found many self-help books that jumped from their shelves to me; Like - Chop Wood Carry Water, Illusions, Travis and Regina Ryan's Wellness Workbook, and later Travis Wellness Workbook for Professionals [1991].
I returned to Pittsburgh for the following year and I told my professional friends I was becoming a 'happy bag lady'.
With another 8-week-old hunting dog and pick-up truck, I started over in WI.
I moved to Stevens Point area, started a business, and bought a small farm.
Subsequently, and thanks to John Munson, I didn’t starve to death and became the Director of the Wellness Academic program at UWSP.
Turning Point 4
It was there that I started teaching about life and I called it wellness.
In 1988-89 UWSP, became one of the 1st to develop an academic approach to wellness, and set the academic standard for a bachelor of science degree - for wellness professionals vs. fitness professionals. By 2000, we had developed an academic approach to wellness, that included the experiential transformation for students and in 1990 with the student involvement added the 7th dimension of wellness. Environmental sustainability.
UWSP has legacy piece via NWI but also on the 7 dimension model, that has influenced the emerging concept of wellness/ wholeness.
I first attended the NWI conference in, 1986. I got to dance with the real Patch Adams and Sandy Queen, I decided happiness was more important than being stressed out, or PICASSO’S DON QUIXOTE swinging at windmills.
I returned to Pittsburgh for the following year and I told my professional friends I was becoming a 'happy bag lady'.
With another 8-week-old hunting dog and pick-up truck, I started over in WI.
I moved to Stevens Point area, started a business, and bought a small farm.
Subsequently, and thanks to John Munson, I didn’t starve to death and became the Director of the Wellness Academic program at UWSP.
Turning Point 4
It was there that I started teaching about life and I called it wellness.
In 1988-89 UWSP, became one of the 1st to develop an academic approach to wellness, and set the academic standard for a bachelor of science degree - for wellness professionals vs. fitness professionals. By 2000, we had developed an academic approach to wellness, that included the experiential transformation for students and in 1990 with the student involvement added the 7th dimension of wellness. Environmental sustainability.
UWSP has legacy piece via NWI but also on the 7 dimension model, that has influenced the emerging concept of wellness/ wholeness.
1st Perception is only accurate 50% of time
2nd Our story is not only who we are, but if not carefully managed is who we become
3rd Placebo can be effective up to 67% of the time
4th - 95% of of us are non-conscious and are running on automatic
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Harvard Health Publications 2008
Great thing we have learned form medicine: Placebo effect: a pill, a procedure, a counseling session that doesn't have a direct physiological effect.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Health_Letter/2012/April/putting-the-placebo-effect-to-work
Care that’s caring
The power of expectation 44% effective; add attentive, empathetic interaction caring > 62% Subjective vs. objective
The power of expectation: belief in treatment an intervention is believed to help a condition %, varies & depends on the condition & strength of belief. Psychological conditioning: the person associates the intervention with a benefit. The association, and therefore the benefit get stronger. Effect of care that's caring: attention from people who patients believe can help ease their suffering and distress.
Care that is caring: Researchers associated with Harvard's placebo studies program published a study in 2008 that illustrates this aspect of the response very nicely. The volunteers for the study were people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a condition that causes abdominal pain and changes in bowel movements in the absence of any discernible changes to the bowel. The placebo treatment was sham acupuncture, which involves the use of needles that, unbeknownst to the patient, retract into their handles instead of penetrating the skin. The placebo effect of the sham acupuncture needles was impressive: 44% of those treated with just the sham needles reported relief from their IBS problems. When sham acupuncture was combined with attentive, empathetic interaction with the acupuncturist, the placebo effect got even larger, with 62% reporting relief from their IBS woes.
Subjective vs. objective:
The placebo effect is most pronounced and relevant when a treatment's success or failure depends largely on the subjective experiences of patients. Best for conditions that are defined mainly by symptoms, such as depression, and problems like migraine headaches and back pain that are defined primarily by the pain they produce.
Sometimes treatments can be judged by both objective and subjective
Research is showing that the placebo effect often seems to be associated with objective changes in brain chemistry. A number of studies have shown, for example, that the brain releases natural pain-relieving substances, called endorphins, when people enrolled in pain studies are given placebos. Research results indicate that measurable changes in brain chemistry may explain the large placebo effect seen in depression treatment. Parkinson's disease is associated with a shortage of a brain chemical called dopamine, and in studies of the disease, placebos have increased the production of dopamine.
Several of the things I learned early in wellness were that:
1st Perception is only accurate 50% of time
2nd Our story is not only who we are, but if not carefully managed is who we become
3rd Placebo can be effective up to 67% of the time
4th - 95% of of us are non-conscious and are running on automatic
Notes;
Harvard Health Publications 2008
Great thing we have learned form medicine: Placebo effect: a pill, a procedure, a counseling session that doesn't have a direct physiological effect.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Health_Letter/2012/April/putting-the-placebo-effect-to-work
Care that’s caring
The power of expectation 44% effective; add attentive, empathetic interaction caring > 62%
Subjective vs. objective
The power of expectation: belief in treatment an intervention is believed to help a condition %, varies & depends on the condition & strength of belief. Psychological conditioning: the person associates the intervention with a benefit. The association, and therefore the benefit get stronger.
Effect of care that's caring: attention from people who patients believe can help ease their suffering and distress.
Care that is caring: Researchers associated with Harvard's placebo studies program published a study in 2008 that illustrates this aspect of the response very nicely. The volunteers for the study were people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a condition that causes abdominal pain and changes in bowel movements in the absence of any discernible changes to the bowel. The placebo treatment was sham acupuncture, which involves the use of needles that, unbeknownst to the patient, retract into their handles instead of penetrating the skin. The placebo effect of the sham acupuncture needles was impressive: 44% of those treated with just the sham needles reported relief from their IBS problems. When sham acupuncture was combined with attentive, empathetic interaction with the acupuncturist, the placebo effect got even larger, with 62% reporting relief from their IBS woes.
Subjective vs. objective:
The placebo effect is most pronounced and relevant when a treatment's success or failure depends largely on the subjective experiences of patients. Best for conditions that are defined mainly by symptoms, such as depression, and problems like migraine headaches and back pain that are defined primarily by the pain they produce.
Sometimes treatments can be judged by both objective and subjective
Research is showing that the placebo effect often seems to be associated with objective changes in brain chemistry. A number of studies have shown, for example, that the brain releases natural pain-relieving substances, called endorphins, when people enrolled in pain studies are given placebos. Research results indicate that measurable changes in brain chemistry may explain the large placebo effect seen in depression treatment. Parkinson's disease is associated with a shortage of a brain chemical called dopamine, and in studies of the disease, placebos have increased the production of dopamine.
The legacy of Wellness is not one individual’s accomplishments, but a movement toward sustainability. Many came before us or with us; Maslow, Hans Selia, Elmer Green, Elisabeth K Ross, Herbert Benson, Sharon Salzberg, Candice Pert, Jackie Sorenson, Ken Cooper, .....H. Dunn Slide
II. Legacy of NWI?
The legacy of Wellness is not one individual’s accomplishments, but a movement toward sustainability. Many came before us or with us; Maslow, Hans Selia, Elmer Green, Elisabeth K Ross, Herbert Benson, Sharon Salzberg, Candice Pert, Jackie Sorenson, Ken Cooper, .....H. Dunn
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The Change Agents – Innovators and Early Adopters
Innovators:
Hans Selye: Body response to stress 1936
Abraham H. Maslow (1943) A Theory of Human Motivation. Psychological Review, 50(4), 370-96, ; Maslow known for hierarchy of needs(1954) , and for self-actualization (1960-70).
Fritz Perls, psychiatrist wife and Laura Perls: Founders of Gestalt Therapy
Halbert Dunn, chief of the National Office of Vital Statistics, was looking for new terminology to convey the positive aspects of health introduced the concept of wellness
High-level wellness) in a series of twenty-nine lectures he gave at the Unitarian Church in Arlington County, Virginia in the late 1950s.[citation needed] Those lectures provided the basis for his book, High Level Wellness, which was published in 1961. The book was reissued in a number of editions but did not have a great deal of immediate impact. It did, however, come into the hands of a number of the future leaders of wellness and holistic health movement that bloomed more than a decade later, such as Don B. Ardell, Peter Russel, John Travis, and Elizabeth Neilson.
Four events in the mid-1970s broadened the impact of Dunn's ideas. First, John Travis opened the first US wellness center (Mill Valley, CA, 1975). This center and other organizations were then described in Don Ardell's 1976 book, using Dunn's title (giving Dunn due credit for his origination of the title and concept).
Then Elizabeth Neilson founded the journal Health Values: Achieving High Level Wellness (renamed the American Journal of Health Promotion in 1996), which was dedicated to Dunn and reprinted one of his papers in its first edition. Lastly, the publisher of Health Values, Charles B. Slack, Inc., published a reprint edition of Dunn's High Level Wellness that achieved a wider distribution and impact.
EAP Hazelden Institute influence
John Travis
Elmer Green and Charles Tart: Bio-Feedback
Herbert Benson: Relaxation Response
Ken Cooper: Aerobic Fitness
What Was Happening Nationally? 1940s to 1970
1940s Abraham Maslow’s concept of self-actualization is part of his theory of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs proposed in his 1943 paper “A theory of human motivation” in Psychological Review. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology. Maslow used the terms Physiological, Safety, Belongingness and Love, Esteem, Self-Actualization and Self-Transcendence needs to describe the pattern that human motivations generally move through. See People and Discoveries - Abraham Maslow
1940s Hazelden Institute influence in dependency treatment
1950-1960s Father of wellness: Halbert L. Dunn, chief of the National Office of Vital Statistics, first used the term wellness and sketched out his concept of “high-level wellness” see: Points of Attack for Raising the Levels of Wellness
1970 Travis introduced the first Health Care Continuum Concept. As a young resident at Johns Hopkins, John W. Travis, MD, MPH had a flash of inspiration that had major impact on worksite wellness programming. He had been working in the US Public Health Service, where he was a protégé of Dr. Lewis Robbins, the creator of the health risk appraisal (HRA). He had also been influenced by World Health Organization's definition of health, and the work of Halbert L. Dunn, Chief of the National Office of Vital Statistics and Abraham Maslow’s Triangle. Travis sketched out his concept of high level of wellness, in which he envisioned the idea for the Illness-Wellness Continuum. The health care continuum was born and it placed "wellness" in a revolutionary new context, and bridged health and human potential.
Early Adopters:
Known as The Wellness Continuum it was the first time relationships between wellness, medically driven treatment models, and high-level wellness were bridged. Individuals moving from the center or neutral point to the left of center of the treatment model moved to deteriorating states of health and finally premature death. Individuals moving to the right of center increased their levels of health and well-being through awareness, education, and wellness growth. One of the core concepts of the continuum was that the treatment paradigm could only take individuals back to the neutral point, where the symptoms of disease have been alleviated. The wellness paradigm, which could be utilized at any point on the continuum, moved individuals toward higher levels of wellness. See PDF file: NYTimes Article, Wellness 4/16/2010
Bio-feedback is born, humanistic and transpersonal psychology ushered in by Elmer Green and Charles Tart: Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology. See PDF file: Biofeedback, Mind-Body Medicine, and the Higher Limits of Human Nature
Co-Dependency Model evolved: Hazelden Institute influence in dependency treatment. See EPAHazelton Hst.pdf
Relaxation Response: Herb Benson, MD, cardiologist, research showed physiological alterations. Showed relaxation response from changing thoughts (meditation) and documented decreases in body metabolism, respiratory rate, and blood pressure. See PDF file Mind Body Medicine History
Kenneth Cooper and and Jacki Sorensen (aerobic dance): concept of “aerobics” influenced the corporate focuses on fitness facilities, decreasing stress, and improving health. See PDF file Kenneth H. Cooper, MD, MPH Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) emerged in corporate programs with focus upon alcoholism (Alcohol Anonymous [AA], 12-step programs became accepted).
Lovelock and Margulis: 1960-70 NASA Gaia theory The goal of a self-regulating system is to renew itself, rather than preserve any of its constituent parts, and if human beings become an obstacle to that end they will find Planet Earth increasingly inhospitable .Later, Lovelock finds value in the larger system in which human beings belong, with other animal species.
Visionaries | IONS Directory | Institute of Noetic Sciences – Accumulative list
The Change Agents – Innovators and Early Adopters
Innovators:
Hans Selye: Body response to stress 1936
Abraham H. Maslow (1943) A Theory of Human Motivation. Psychological Review, 50(4), 370-96, ; Maslow known for hierarchy of needs(1954) , and for self-actualization (1960-70).
Fritz Perls, psychiatrist wife and Laura Perls: Founders of Gestalt Therapy
Halbert Dunn, chief of the National Office of Vital Statistics, was looking for new terminology to convey the positive aspects of health introduced the concept of wellness
High-level wellness) in a series of twenty-nine lectures he gave at the Unitarian Church in Arlington County, Virginia in the late 1950s.[citation needed] Those lectures provided the basis for his book, High Level Wellness, which was published in 1961. The book was reissued in a number of editions but did not have a great deal of immediate impact. It did, however, come into the hands of a number of the future leaders of wellness and holistic health movement that bloomed more than a decade later, such as Don B. Ardell, Peter Russel, John Travis, and Elizabeth Neilson.
Four events in the mid-1970s broadened the impact of Dunn's ideas. First, John Travis opened the first US wellness center (Mill Valley, CA, 1975). This center and other organizations were then described in Don Ardell's 1976 book, using Dunn's title (giving Dunn due credit for his origination of the title and concept).
Then Elizabeth Neilson founded the journal Health Values: Achieving High Level Wellness (renamed the American Journal of Health Promotion in 1996), which was dedicated to Dunn and reprinted one of his papers in its first edition. Lastly, the publisher of Health Values, Charles B. Slack, Inc., published a reprint edition of Dunn's High Level Wellness that achieved a wider distribution and impact.
EAP Hazelden Institute influence
John Travis
Elmer Green and Charles Tart: Bio-Feedback
Herbert Benson: Relaxation Response
Ken Cooper: Aerobic Fitness
What Was Happening Nationally? 1940s to 1970
1940s Abraham Maslow’s concept of self-actualization is part of his theory of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs proposed in his 1943 paper “A theory of human motivation” in Psychological Review. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology. Maslow used the terms Physiological, Safety, Belongingness and Love, Esteem, Self-Actualization and Self-Transcendence needs to describe the pattern that human motivations generally move through. See People and Discoveries - Abraham Maslow
1940s Hazelden Institute influence in dependency treatment
1950-1960s Father of wellness: Halbert L. Dunn, chief of the National Office of Vital Statistics, first used the term wellness and sketched out his concept of “high-level wellness” see: Points of Attack for Raising the Levels of Wellness
1970 Travis introduced the first Health Care Continuum Concept. As a young resident at Johns Hopkins, John W. Travis, MD, MPH had a flash of inspiration that had major impact on worksite wellness programming. He had been working in the US Public Health Service, where he was a protégé of Dr. Lewis Robbins, the creator of the health risk appraisal (HRA). He had also been influenced by World Health Organization's definition of health, and the work of Halbert L. Dunn, Chief of the National Office of Vital Statistics and Abraham Maslow’s Triangle. Travis sketched out his concept of high level of wellness, in which he envisioned the idea for the Illness-Wellness Continuum. The health care continuum was born and it placed "wellness" in a revolutionary new context, and bridged health and human potential.
Early Adopters:
Known as The Wellness Continuum it was the first time relationships between wellness, medically driven treatment models, and high-level wellness were bridged. Individuals moving from the center or neutral point to the left of center of the treatment model moved to deteriorating states of health and finally premature death. Individuals moving to the right of center increased their levels of health and well-being through awareness, education, and wellness growth. One of the core concepts of the continuum was that the treatment paradigm could only take individuals back to the neutral point, where the symptoms of disease have been alleviated. The wellness paradigm, which could be utilized at any point on the continuum, moved individuals toward higher levels of wellness. See PDF file: NYTimes Article, Wellness 4/16/2010
Bio-feedback is born, humanistic and transpersonal psychology ushered in by Elmer Green and Charles Tart: Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology. See PDF file: Biofeedback, Mind-Body Medicine, and the Higher Limits of Human Nature
Co-Dependency Model evolved: Hazelden Institute influence in dependency treatment. See EPAHazelton Hst.pdf
Relaxation Response: Herb Benson, MD, cardiologist, research showed physiological alterations. Showed relaxation response from changing thoughts (meditation) and documented decreases in body metabolism, respiratory rate, and blood pressure. See PDF file Mind Body Medicine History
Kenneth Cooper and and Jacki Sorensen (aerobic dance): concept of “aerobics” influenced the corporate focuses on fitness facilities, decreasing stress, and improving health. See PDF file Kenneth H. Cooper, MD, MPH
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) emerged in corporate programs with focus upon alcoholism (Alcohol Anonymous [AA], 12-step programs became accepted).
Lovelock and Margulis: 1960-70 NASA Gaia theory The goal of a self-regulating system is to renew itself, rather than preserve any of its constituent parts, and if human beings become an obstacle to that end they will find Planet Earth increasingly inhospitable .Later, Lovelock finds value in the larger system in which human beings belong, with other animal species.
Abraham H. Maslow (1943) A Theory of Human Motivation. Psychological Review, 50(4), 370-96, ; Maslow known for hierarchy of needs(1954) , and for self-actualization (1960-70).
Hans Selye: Body response to stress 1936
Abraham H. Maslow (1943) A Theory of Human Motivation. Psychological Review, 50(4), 370-96, ; Maslow known for hierarchy of needs(1954) , and for self-actualization (1960-70).
Elmer and wife Aylis Green and Charles Tart: Bio-Feedback
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High-level wellness) in a series of twenty-nine lectures he gave at the Unitarian Church in Arlington County, Virginia in the late 1950s.[citation needed] Those lectures provided the basis for his book, High Level Wellness, which was published in 1961. The book was reissued in a number of editions but did not have a great deal of immediate impact. It did, however, come into the hands of a number of the future leaders of wellness and holistic health movement that bloomed more than a decade later, such as Don B. Ardell, Peter Russel, John Travis, and Elizabeth Neilson.
Halbert Dunn, chief of the National Office of Vital Statistics, was looking for new terminology to convey the positive aspects of health introduced the concept of wellness
High-level wellness) in a series of twenty-nine lectures he gave at the Unitarian Church in Arlington County, Virginia in the late 1950s.[citation needed] Those lectures provided the basis for his book, High Level Wellness, which was published in 1961. The book was reissued in a number of editions but did not have a great deal of immediate impact. It did, however, come into the hands of a number of the future leaders of wellness and holistic health movement that bloomed more than a decade later, such as Don B. Ardell, Peter Russel, John Travis, and Elizabeth Neilson.
Campell's Hero’s Journey
Fritz andLaura Perls: 1960-70-Founders of Gestalt Therapy
Campell's Hero’s Journey
Lovelock and Margulis: 1960-70 NASA Gaia theory The goal of a self-regulating system is to renew itself, rather than preserve any of its constituent parts, and if human beings become an obstacle to that end they will find Planet Earth increasingly inhospitable .Later, Lovelock finds value in the larger system in which human beings belong, with other animal species.
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Relaxation Response: Herb Benson, MD, cardiologist, research showed physiological alterations. Showed relaxation response from changing thoughts (meditation) and documented decreases in body metabolism, respiratory rate, and blood pressure. See PDF file Mind Body Medicine History
Edward Mitchell created Institute of Noetic Sciences, see in | IONS Directory |
Relaxation Response: Herb Benson, MD, cardiologist, research showed physiological alterations. Showed relaxation response from changing thoughts (meditation) and documented decreases in body metabolism, respiratory rate, and blood pressure. See PDF file Mind Body Medicine History
Kenneth Cooper and and Jacki Sorensen (aerobic dance): concept of "aerobics" influenced the corporate focuses on fitness facilities, decreasing stress, and improving health. See PDF file Kenneth H. Cooper, MD, MPH
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The concept of the global brain.
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The five stages of grief.
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Jeane Achterberg and Candice Pert
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The key element of wellness, requires experiential learning, not just academic achievements or technical skills. There had be a place for where, head, heart, and the path of consciousness [human values, i.e. New Milliniums] come together. These are the lessons of life!
How does our wellness legacy effect complete strangers? –- Bruno Balke, (one of the original WWII Mountain Men??) taught me:
The key element of wellness, requires experiential learning, not just academic achievements or technical skills. There had be a place for where, head, heart, and the path of consciousness [human values, i.e. New Milliniums] come together. These are the lessons of life!
This is the Legacy of NWI, Listen carefully: We are going to experience the magic of wellness right now! Rules of play!
If you practice these things while you attend the conference you will be open to the wellness NWI’s legacy -
Pay attention!
Respond.
Accountable for your choices.
Responsible for more than self alone
Be of service to others (community)!
I would like to share an exercise with you that I learned from Bruno and others:
This is the Legacy of NWI, Listen carefully: We are going to experience the magic of wellness right now! Rules of play!
If you practice these things while you attend the conference you will be open to the wellness NWI’s legacy -
Pay attention!
Respond.
Accountable for your choices.
Responsible for more than self alone
Be of service to others (community)!
How many are you here because you want to make money or improve your technical skills?
2. How many of you believe wellness requires more than just fitness and/or ROI?
3. How many are you here because you have a family member who has heart disease or other preventable disease?
4. How many of you are seeking something different? Or came here to heal yourself, or find this conference to be a nurturing environment where you can just be who you are?
5. How many come back each year because this is your wellness community, where you can have consistency with human values relevant to your life?
Ask yourself: What have you learned from this exercise?
Listen carefully – stand up if you agree, sit down if you don't agree
How many are you here because you want to make money or improve your technical skills?
2. How many of you believe wellness requires more than just fitness and/or ROI?
3. How many are you here because you have a family member who has heart disease or other preventable disease?
4. How many of you are seeking something different? Or came here to heal yourself, or find this conference to be a nurturing environment where you can just be who you are?
5. How many come back each year because this is your wellness community, where you can have consistency with human values relevant to your life?
Ask yourself: What have you learned from this exercise?
Contrasting views of: Wellness vs. Benefits/Business: The Diffusion of Innovations Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures.
Everett Rogers, a professor of rural sociology, popularized the theory in his 1962 book Diffusion of Innovations. He said diffusion is the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system.
With successive groups of consumers adopting the new technology (shown in blue), its market share (yellow) will eventually reach the saturation level. Marketing adapted this concept and identified 5 groups [innovators 2.5%, early adopters 13.5%, early majority 34%, late majority 34%, and laggards 16%]
Growth of Wellness in relation to diffusion of innovations theory: When one compares the growth of the wellness movement over time, you can see that the market for wellness has grown and will be supported by the Affordable Care Act as it becomes a mature market.
Notes: Based on Rogers, E. (1962) Diffusion of innovations. Free Press, London, NY, USA. Adapted to Wellness by R. A. Abbott, 2013 http://abbottsolutionsinc.com/
Everett Rogers’ 1962 book Diffusions of Innovations explained at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures. Diffusion process is the process through which innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system.
Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures. Everett Rogers, a professor of rural sociology, popularized the theory in his 1962 book Diffusion of Innovations. He said diffusion is the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system. With successive groups of consumers adopting the new technology (shown in blue), its market share (yellow) will eventually reach the saturation level.
Growth of Wellness in relation to diffusion of innovations theory: When one compares the growth of the wellness movement over time, you can see that the market for wellness has grown and will be supported by the Affordable Care Act as it becomes a mature market.
1960-1970
1980-2000
2000-2010
2010-2015 Patient Affordable Care Act
Where are we now?
Contrasting views of: Wellness vs. Benefits/Business: The Diffusion of Innovations
Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures.
Everett Rogers, a professor of rural sociology, popularized the theory in his 1962 book Diffusion of Innovations. He said diffusion is the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system.
With successive groups of consumers adopting the new technology (shown in blue), its market share (yellow) will eventually reach the saturation level. Marketing adapted this concept and identified 5 groups [innovators 2.5%, early adopters 13.5%, early majority 34%, late majority 34%, and laggards 16%]
Growth of Wellness in relation to diffusion of innovations theory: When one compares the growth of the wellness movement over time, you can see that the market for wellness has grown and will be supported by the Affordable Care Act as it becomes a mature market.
Notes: Based on Rogers, E. (1962) Diffusion of innovations. Free Press, London, NY, USA. Adapted to Wellness by R. A. Abbott, 2013 http://abbottsolutionsinc.com/
Everett Rogers’ 1962 book Diffusions of Innovations explained at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures. Diffusion process is the process through which innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system.
Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures. Everett Rogers, a professor of rural sociology, popularized the theory in his 1962 book Diffusion of Innovations. He said diffusion is the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system. With successive groups of consumers adopting the new technology (shown in blue), its market share (yellow) will eventually reach the saturation level.
Growth of Wellness in relation to diffusion of innovations theory: When one compares the growth of the wellness movement over time, you can see that the market for wellness has grown and will be supported by the Affordable Care Act as it becomes a mature market.
1960-1970
1980-2000
2000-2010
2010-2015 Patient Affordable Care Act
Between 2000 and 2010, employee/worksite wellness and health promotion became a risk reduction tool for primary and secondary disease management as one method of improving productivity and ROI for health care.
In 2012, President Obama expanded to The President's Council to include Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. For better or worse, the concept of prevention and wellness became imbedded into the primary care as part of the American Affordable Care Act.
It is a critical time, the haves and have not’s, multi-political systems have driven us to war, causing chaos and greed.
Our wellness vision is one of returning to human values, the journey of wellness is about self-care, illiteracy and knowledge, and creating sustainable communities vs. externally driven incentive that currently dampen the ROI of wellness programs.
III. State of the movement: Where are we now? Where are we now 2014-2015? Rand Report suggest we are moving toward forced self-management
Between 2000 and 2010, employee/worksite wellness and health promotion became a risk reduction tool for primary and secondary disease management as one method of improving productivity and ROI for health care.
In 2012, President Obama expanded to The President's Council to include Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. For better or worse, the concept of prevention and wellness became imbedded into the primary care as part of the American Affordable Care Act.
It is a critical time, the haves and have not’s, multi-political systems have driven us to war, causing chaos and greed.
Our wellness vision is one of returning to human values, the journey of wellness is about self-care, illiteracy and knowledge, and creating sustainable communities vs. externally driven incentive that currently dampen the ROI of wellness programs.
Will you step forward to create a culture based upon human values vs. greed,
Peace vs. war, or,
health vs. ROI?
Peace vs. war, or,
health vs. ROI?
IV. Future ahead
Will you step forward to create a culture based upon human values vs. greed,
Peace vs. war, or,
health vs. ROI?
Peace vs. war, or,
health vs. ROI?
I agree with Elaine, what I experience in life, who I am is the message!
Namaste
I look forward to hearing your future stories about the Legacy of Wellness –
I agree with Elaine, what I experience in life, who I am is the message!
Namaste
Will you step forward to create a culture based upon human values vs. greed,
Peace vs. war, or,
health vs. ROI?
Peace vs. war, or,
health vs. ROI?
IV. Future ahead
Will you step forward to create a culture based upon human values vs. greed,
Peace vs. war, or,
health vs. ROI?
Peace vs. war, or,
health vs. ROI?
