Practicing Community Episode 3: The Spirit of Wellness – A Conversation with Becky and Dallas Chief Eagle

This month, join Becky and Dallas ChiefEagle, Marisa Taborga Byrne, and Dane Zahorsky as they discuss Whole Person Wellness and how their work is to sustain and reconnect spirit in peoples lives is impacting and transforming their community!

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About This Month’s Guests –  Becky and Dallas ChiefEagle

Becky and Dallas Chief Eagle are co-founders of the All Nations Gathering Center on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Both do work that’s hard to contain to any short intro, a few of the things we might mention are Dallas’s work as an artist-in-residence in schools across the nation since the mid 1980’s using Hoop Dancing and other techniques to teach the lessons of the Lakota Way or Becky’s work as the compliance officer of the Oglala Sioux Lakota Housing where she helps manage 1500 low rent rental units across the 9 districts of the reservation.

Over the more than 10 years they along with a growing team of folks have impacted and transformed many people’s lives. The Center blends modern practices with the beautiful traditions of the Lakota Way in the lush and vibrant Yellow Bear Canyon just outside the Black Hills south of the Badlands in South Dakota.

From getting out of unhealthy relationships, stopping suicidal intentions to healing bodies and minds, their healing has been a powerful catalyst for many men and women of all nations to heal and live healthier lives.

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Health as a Whole Journey

Whole person Wellness is much more than the health of our individual mind, body, heart, and spirit. Yes, it’s all of those things, and also it is interrelated to place and community. There is a continual mutual exchange between our place on this earth and our unique way of being in the world. Expanding our view of Wellness can open a deeper connection with ourselves, with the land we call home, with the communities we are surrounded by.

Resources

Articles

• “Well-being” is Whole-Person Wellness by Michael Arloski
• Growing the Whole Human by Sohail Coelho
• Whole Person Child Development is Underrated by Bo Stjerne Thomsen & Edith Ackermann
• Making Whole Child-Education the Norm by Emma Garcia and Elaine Weiss
• What Does it Mean to Educate the Whole Child? By ASCD
• Creating Whole-person Wellness by Jan Montague, MGS and Barbara Grank, MSW
• Whole Child Development:  Not Just Academics For Special Education Kids by JSC Blog
• Whole Person Health Care by Jenni Lyttle
• Treating the Whole Person: Spirituality in Medicine – Christine M. H. Powell
• Rites of Passage – Camp Pays Off in Youth Development, Happiness, Health, and Safety by Stephen Gray Wallace, MS Ed
• The Health Of “Emerging Adults” In Australia: Freedom, Risk And Rites Of Passage by Melissa S-L Kang
• Man Teaches Lakota Lessons Through Hoops – SDPB Radio

Approaches / Tools

• The Leader in Me – Whole Child Education Paradigm
• THRIVE: Tool for Health & Resilience In Vulnerable Environments
• Holistic Child Development by Nazarene Compassionate Ministries
• Center for Successful Aging
• Transformative Design – Make Trybe
• Why Holistic Child Development Infographic – Compassion International
• Eight Aboriginal Ways of Learning and Knowing
• Whole Person Wellness Worksheet by Kay Van Norman
• Whole Child Approach – Institute for Educational Advancement
• The Bravewell Collaborative – Treating the Whole Person Through Integrative Healthcare
• Whole Person Approach to Development – BetterUp
• Let’s Make Whole Person Wellness Happen – WPW International
• Building Comprehensive Youth Programs – SEARCH Institute

Talks/Podcasts

• Educating the Whole Person Tedx – Nicolas Michaud
• How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across A Lifetime – Nadine Burke Harris
• The Hidden Role Informal Caregivers Play In Health Care – Scott William
• The Secret To Living Longer May Be Your Social Life –  Susan Pinker
• Speaking of Psychology Podcast: Treating the whole person with Parinda Khatri, PhD
• How Racism Makes Us Sick – David R. William
• There’s No Shame In Taking Care Of Your Mental Health – Sangu Delleat
• Mental Health For All By Involving All – Vikram Patel

Conferences/Events

• Michigan State University – Online Class – ANP 270: Women and Health
• Whole Person Development – Retreat
• IHI 2018 Summit – Designing Primary Care for the Whole Person
• ASCD Empower19 Whole Person Education Conference

Partners

• All Nations Gathering Center
• Center for Youth & Community Development
• Pacific Quest
• CornerStones of Care
• Inward Bound: Mindfulness Education – iBme
• Natural Highs
• Rooted Emerging
• Sandstone Community Care
• Space of Possibilities
• Spreading Seeds – Mind – Body – Spirit
• The Mankind Project
• Weaving Earth
• Wolf Connection
• Youth Resiliency Institute
• Make Trybe Center for Transformative Design