About Integrative Holistic Health and Wellness
Mission and Goals
The mission of the Integrative Holistic Health and Wellness Program is to cultivate the inter-connective relationships of individuals’ body, mind, and spirit to positively enhance personal, professional, community and global health.
Goals:
- to increase students’ knowledge regarding holistic health practices and theory
- to develop skills that will positively enhance personal, community, and global health and wellness
- to cultivate awareness of the inter-connection between body, mind, spirit, and community in order to affect attitudinal change regarding health and wellness
- to insure that students have the ability to apply the knowledge, skills, and awareness of holistic health and wellness in their personal and professional lives
- to promote sensitivity to the issues of diversity and multiculturalism within the context of the continuum of individual and global health and wellness
History
Integrative Holistic Health and Wellness is based on the philosophy of working with the whole person and recognizing the contextual factors that influence health. It is a system of principles and multidisciplinary approaches that promote well-being by considering the inter-connectedness among a person’s physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and environmental levels of functioning. The Integrative Holistic Health and Wellness Program at Western Michigan University was established in 1982, and is one of the first academic programs of its kind in the United States. Along with offering a Graduate Certificate in Holistic Health, we offer an undergraduate minor.
Advisory Board
Mary Anderson, Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology Department
Paula Andrasi, Holistic Health Program
Jeanine Bartholomew, College of Health and Human Services
Amy Curtis, College of Health and Human Services
Robert Jarski, Certificate Program in Complementary Medicine & Wellness, Oakland University
Fritz MacDonald, School of Social Work
Rich Oxhandler, Holistic Health Program
Robin Pollens, Speech Pathology and Audiology Department
Ed Roth, School of Music
Mary Swartz, Extended University Programs
Kathi Fuller, Holistic Health Program
Michele McGrady, Holistic Health Program
Gay Walker, Holistic Health Program
Stephen Tasko, Speech Pathology and Audiology