Workshop
Change Your Health, Change the World
A Workshop for Community Organizers and Activists
We’re scheduling workshops now. Contact us us for more information about the workshop and when you can join us.
You’re changing the world. The Sustainable Health Institute wants to support your important work by supporting your health.
You know from your work that often change doesn’t come in a one-size-fits-all package. That’s why this workshop focuses on what “better health” means to you and the specific changes you can make to achieve it.
What we bring to the workshop is 13 years of critical thinking about health science and health practices from producing the Your Own Health And Fitness radio show on KPFA 94.1FM Berkeley, CA.
What you bring to the workshop is the knowledge and experience of your own health . Together we’ll work to integrate the two.
The workshop is small, informal, non-hierarchical, and participatory. We bring together 8 to 12 people who, like you, are working for social change. For two hours we’ll facilitate a dialogue on specific actions you can take.
You can expect to leave the workshop with at least one action item that makes a change for better health for you. You’ll also leave with a practical understanding of how to think critically about health issues.
Jeffry Fawcett, PhD
facilitates the workshop. He co-produces and contributes to Layna Berman’s
Your Own Health And Fitness
radio show on
KPFA 94.1 FM
Berkeley, CA. He is also the publisher of the quarterly newsletter
Progressive Health Observer: A News Commentary Alternative to Big Box Medicine
.
Critical thinking on health science and practices
- Each person acts to care for her or his self.
- Health is not the absence of disease: it is the capacity to thrive.
- Each person has a unique biology: health comes from how it responds to its environment.
- Everyday health comes from local, experience-based knowledge.
Critical thinking for personal health choices
- Use your own best judgment.
- To change your health, change your environment.
- Bodies work like ecologies: each part supports or balances other parts.
- Symptoms aren't your body behaving badly: they're your body taking care of itself.
- Do the simplest things first.
We’re scheduling workshops now. Contact us for more information about the workshop and when you can join us.