Well-Being for Impact

One Health is a holistic approach which recognizes the interrelationship of human and planetary well-being. A new scientific field at the intersection of inner development, behavior change, and systems transformation suggests that sustainability challenges are a reflection of an inner, human crisis. One that separates ourselves from each other and the natural world.

How can we support planetary health when we, as a part of this system, are no longer flourishing?

Health Care Without Harm has launched the Well-Being for Impact (WB4I) initiative to create intentional spaces and opportunities that nurture well-being among change-makers by cultivating essential inner development skills fundamental to sustainable change. At its heart, the initiative seeks to shift the paradigm for how we come together, engage in dialogue and show up in the world—promoting greater understanding and compassion in the face of uncertainty, conflict, and chaos.

You will see a variety of sessions and activities tagged with the WB4I icon throughout the CleanMed conference. Strengthening inner development skills, helps each of us to bring mindful self-awareness to our relationships with others offering a greater opportunity to foster connection and build personal and collective resilience. 

Join us in igniting the initiative! We are inviting attendees to participate in the One Sacred Earth Project to explore their relationship and reconnect with the natural world around us. The activity will run through the lead-up to and during the conference. Please take some time to consider the following prompts and to share your insights to ignite the power, beauty and benefit of a gratitude practice moving into the conference.

1. What in the natural world are you grateful for? 
2. Why do you feel grateful?  (What or how does this part of the natural world make you feel?) 
3. How do you care for and nurture this relationship?

The One Sacred Earth Project initiated this practice as an offering to communities across  the world as a commitment  to gathering and sharing the lost skills and practices needed to maintain and preserve humanity’s life-giving relationships with the natural world.