(14.5 contact hours) Foundations 1 covers stress management, physical activity, nutrition, and healing environments, integrating traditional healing with modern healthcare.
(10 contact hours) Foundations 2 explores Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine, spirituality, and meditation, blending ancient healing with modern practices.
(9.5 contact hours) Foundations 3 includes humor, music, sound, energy healing, and therapeutic massage, merging creative and energetic healing with conventional medicine.
(9 Contact Hours) The connection between wellness and the environment, focusing on air and water safety, overpopulation, climate change, home health hazards, and action steps.
Learn about the different forms of depressive disorders; the pathophysiology, symptoms, and diagnosis; and explore conventional and integrative treatment approaches.
Learn about the different types of energy, the concept of energy healing, and the various types of energy healing available today.
Learn about how food affects one's mood, the types of nutrients that can improve mental health, types of eating disorders, and how to incorporate mindful eating as a way of supporting positive mental health.
Learn about how stress affects the body and holistic stress management techniques including self-awareness, cognitive restructuring, effective communication, guided imagery, social support, art therapy, and journaling.
Learn about mindfulness meditation, including health benefits, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), as well as techniques and practices.
Learn about the principles, interventions, therapeutic uses, and physiological and psychological responses of music therapy and sound healing.