Establishing Equitable Approaches for Inclusive Wellness Practices
Inclusive & Responsive Practices Domain
Inclusive and Responsive Practices,
Wellness Competency Model
Gain knowledge and skills to promote inclusive, multidimensional
wellness, including strategies for enhancing emotional intelligence and
cultural humility to minimize the effects of bias. You will engage in
interactive learning to increase competence around social determinants
of health, health equity, bias, and privilege to promote intentional
multidimensional wellness approaches for individuals, groups, and
communities.
Learning Objectives
- Understand elements of emotional intelligence.
- Identify tools for assessment of personal bias.
- Use evidence-based resources to identify personal biases.
- Compare and contrast characteristics and/or uses of self-awareness and self-regulation practices.
- Describe how self-regulation can be used to minimize the effects of personal biases.
- Differentiate between equality and equity.
- Provide a detailed example of how a professional can integrate emotional intelligence, cultural humility, and health equity strategies into wellness practice.
- Explain how addressing systemic barriers can help move toward equity.
- Define intersectionality.
- List ways an individual’s privilege play a role in personal wellness.
- Identify ways in which unconscious bias can negatively impact an individual’s wellness.
- Explain the importance of sensitivity for various aspects of an individual’s identity as a wellness promotion professional.
- Describe how principles of cultural humility and equity play a role in demonstrating compassion, integrity, and respect for diverse individuals and groups.
Who Should Attend?
These courses are applicable to individual practitioners as well as anyone who promotes wellness within organizations or communities.Course Delivery
For the best learning experience, we recommend completing the courses in the order listed. Within these self-paced interactive eLearning courses, you’ll find knowledge checks or activities to enhance your learning as well as a variety of tools and resources you can apply in your work.Course Requirements
Time to complete the course varies by learner, but we suggest planning for a total of three to five hours for each course to complete all the learning elements, including any application activities and self-reflections.
Continuing Education
About the Wellness Promotion Competency Model
The research-based Wellness Promotion Competency Model
encompasses a total of 27 competencies grouped into five domains. This
ground-breaking resource aids in curriculum development, recruitment and
hiring, continuing professional development, and certification in the
wellness field.The model serves as the standard for the gold-standard Certified Wellness Practitioner (CWP) certification.