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Thousands of people, institutions, and organizations across the country and world are learning about and implementing models aimed at the creation of whole health for individuals and families. In Colorado, we have robust engagement from state legislators and state departments in developing new programs aimed at making people healthier, but they’re often not using a holistic lens to reduce silos and duplication or leading on a vision that empowers every Coloradan to thrive. We are mapping Colorado’s current state, regional, and local resources and programs to identify gaps and redundancies while building a large table of learning collaborators across the world that will inform the work in communities across Colorado. Join us!
Center for Public Impact, 2023
The most important outcome seems to be the continuous process of learning and adaptation, leading to continual improvements and resilience-building.
Assessments are undertaken to measure whether people meet thresholds, not to genuinely understand their lives.
US Department of Veterans Affairs
This video focuses on the changing definition of whole health, starting with what matters most to you. This means your health team will get to know you as a person, before working with you to develop a personalized health plan based on your values, needs, and goals.
Changing Futures Northumbria, 2023
This article argues that simply having good solutions to problems isn't enough for reform in public services. It proposes the Liberated Method, a relational approach that focuses on what matters to people, and the need for an "Institute for Prevention and Reform (IPR)" to make it the norm.
Changing Futures Northumbria, 2023
This article emphasizes the need to start with people and work outwards from them, offering fewer services and instead creating a focus on supporting family, agency, community, relationships and understanding.
Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2022
Based on research and conversations with practitioners who engage in transformative change practices, particularly those stemming from nondominant cultures, these more radical and relational ways of working generally share five qualities: deep relational work, space for healing, inviting in the sacred, inner change that leads to outer change, and transforming power dynamics.
Veterans Health Administration, April 2024
This presentation centers around the need to move from “What’s the Matter with You?” to “What Matters to You?” with an approach to health care that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their life to the fullest.