The National Wellness Institute, since 1977, has been leading the efforts to drive wellness and health in our communities, our workplaces and for each other. This has and will not waver. We are keeping a close eye on the news and updates given from the World Health Organization (WHO), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding the COVID-19. We are taking advice and guidance from the appropriate organizations seriously and are using it to develop our future plans.

As of the writing of this email, the 45th Annual National Wellness Conference will still occur July 20-22, as well as our preconference workshop and certificate courses.

As always, we'll continue to bring you informative and engaging online training you can access from your home or office.

NWI would like to share some precautions we are putting in place to ensure we take the safest course of action:

• NWI is monitoring all news and updates regarding COVID-19 and will take appropriate action.
• NWI is receiving the latest information available from WHO, CDC and, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, as well as keeping a close eye on updates from officials in Orlando, Florida.
• NWI is working hard to assist partners and other health and wellness organizations to ensure the health and safety of their members, employees, and communities.
• NWI is placing heavy emphasis on personal hygiene, as is the recommendation of health officials.
• NWI will remain available for any questions as requested, and welcome inquiries regarding Conference status updates.

There isn’t a vaccine to prevent or cure COVID-19, so NWI will follow the CDC recommendations on the best way to prevent infection. Please follow these preventative actions:

• Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after going to the bathroom; before eating; and after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
• If soap and water are not readily available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.
• Always wash hands with soap and water if hands are visibly dirty.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
• Avoid close contact with people who are sick
• Stay home when you are sick.
• Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash.
• Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces using a regular household cleaning spray or wipe.

NWI believes in preparing, not scaring. The COVID-19 is estimated to last longer and be more easily transferrable, with ranging severity of symptoms. Please visit www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html and check back to our website and our social media for any updates, as they are received. 

We are seeing a shift in society where workplaces are discussing stakeholder (employees) and shareholder (investors) values. Late last summer, the Business Roundtable updated their value statement by adding that creating stakeholder value is a critical success factor and should be a top priority to increase the overall success of the organization, including shareholder value.

This societal shift in the workplace is a result of many factors, but most importantly the fight for top talent in a full-employment society, the need for next-generation talent that wants to work for a company that cares for its people and the planet, and the need for communities all over the world to build places where people want to live, play and work. 

But we must not forget the need to let our employees engage in personal time with friends, family, and life in general. We must remember to create communities where everyone is welcomed and feel a sense of belonging. 

But we cannot stop at being engaged at work and in our communities. Engagement is a step within the relationship. From dating to engagement. From engagement to marriage. The next evolution is creating passion, dedication, champions, and world-changers. 

Why is this all-important in the wellness community? Because, wellness is the true intersection between health, happiness, productivity, longevity, engagement, productivity, drive, profitability, vitality, and purpose at work, at home, in your community and within yourself. 

To be great, we must live great and to live great requires a wholistic view of one-self. Are you covering all the bases? 

- Chuck Gillespie, CEO, National Wellness Institute

So today, you are going to be tasked with a few interesting thoughts about why a lack of growing your view on life and on the health and well-being of those around you will never change until you open your eyes to the reimagined! 

Thought 1: If you believe that the only way to get people to change behavior is to incentivize them, congratulations on status quo. Here are great articles that can help you overcome your current opinion. By the way, incentives can be helpful, you just have to understand how to use them properly and know your audience. 

• From Harvard Business Review
• From Journal of Economic Perspectives
• Inc Magazine Article about Researcher and Author Dan Pink
• From Penn University 
• From Psychology Today
• From BMC Public Health (Peer Reviewed Journal) 

Thought 2: Status quo is measuring wellness with health outcomes only. The top health-related issues worldwide are caused by tobacco, poor nutrition, vaccine hesitancy (or lack of them), and poor physical activity. Health outcomes would include cancer rates, diabetes rates, number of diseases contracted from a lack of vaccines, and asthma. Health leaders would treat these health outcomes. Wellness champions consider environmental factors such as social connections through tobacco use, cultural norms for certain types of foods, and understanding how genetics plays a part in health (genetic testing was the focus of NWI’s last webinar). Health and wellness experts come together to determine how to get better access to nutritional food, reduce tobacco use, and increase vaccine utilization, but do so with a different view of the problem. Health outcomes are a critical aspect of your wellness strategy – but measure the whole picture so you can realize true success.

Thought 3: Wellness as a program, a resource, or a benefit is the status quo of status quos! Stop thinking you can hand out wellness to people by handing them a fitness tracker, adding some fruit in a vending machine, analyze health analytics, and purchase a mobile wellness app. These are tools that can be utilized to drive participation and engagement, but this is not wellness – NOT EVEN CLOSE. Wellness is functioning optimally within the environment to learn and grow professionally and personally. Wellness at work helps you recruit and retain good employees. Wellness helps your community drive the economy so there are opportunities for current residents to stay and new residents to move to the area. Wellness is providing purpose to individuals, so they become contributors rather than consumers. Wellness is measured through economic factors, productivity factors, social factors, emotional factors, spiritual factors, intellectual factors, and of course health outcomes. 

Thought 4: Wellness is one tool, one program, one promotion, one outcome for everyone is simply a failed status quo (and quite frankly, lazy). Great wellness strategies start with asking five questions. What are you trying to change in your life? Do you have a personal reason to make this change? Are you ready to make the change? Are you ready to begin today? HOW CAN I/WE HELP? This might be a pack a day smoker, but he/she may not be ready to tackle that health issue. Maybe they are ready to learn how to manage their finances better. Guess what, in this case, you would be more inclined to discuss the smoking habit from a financial cost rather than a health cost. We must get away from one-size-fits-all programming, because it is a major reason your wellness and health initiatives are not working. 

Quit doing wellness and start championing wellness. Get trained and get your team trained on the proper techniques, strategies, and competencies needed to deliver a holistic and comprehensive wellness strategy. 

It is good to be well!

Chuck Gillespie, CEO, National Wellness Institute

The National Wellness Institute is partnering with PulseConnect, to make exciting educational programs featuring healthy foods available to the NWI community.

Sign up at nwi.pulseconnect.me to receive free educational materials, product samples, and coupons from healthy brands! Kits will be shipped directly to you, to share with the people you counsel, coach & advise.

But what are you doing to enrich your own life and career? Are you functioning optimally in your environment? Are you continuing to grow your professional network? Do you consider yourself a life-long learner and, if so, what are you doing to learn more about the evolving wellness industry? Are you a voice for the wellness community or are you just doing wellness? 

In 2020, the National Wellness Institute will embark on a journey to expand the reach of the wellness community into new areas of critical need. Each of you plays a vital role as we reimagine wellness for what it is — an economic driver, an employee engagement strategy, a health and health care disrupter, a personal renewal journey, a global connector, a metric for happiness and well-being, a focal point for policy, our own purpose!

Together, we are the worldwide voice of the wellness community. Together, we lead the change. Together, we learn from each other, build the evidence/research that impacts change, and tackle the headwinds of status quo that have created our current environment of poor health, stress, and lack of real happiness. We get excited to hear global businesses discussing stakeholder value over shareholder value. Why? Because wellness professionals have been preaching this for years — and the irony is that those businesses who have focused on stakeholder value have been the most profitable. Wellness professionals must keep these organizations accountable for what they say by discussing what they are doing to drive stakeholder value — and then get others to follow. 

In 2020, I encourage you to get better connected to fellow leaders of all the disciplines of wellness from all over the world and educate yourself on new areas of wellness like resilience, financial wellness, mental health, and multicultural competency. Stay vigilant on health and health care issues but expand your wellness metrics to include other areas of business (recruitment/retention, absenteeism, P&L) and community (economic development, population growth, social determinants of health, place-making). Finally, take care of yourself and practice what you preach!

It begins with you! Lead the change. Connect and collaborate. Expand your knowledge. And join us as we Reimagine Wellness in 2020! Not a member? Join today.

Chuck Gillespie, CEO National Wellness Institute

One size doesn’t fit all. We are all unique and identity differently. Ranging from our ethnic backgrounds, skin tone, education, language, and place of birth to our childhood experiences. How do we marry our religious beliefs, culture and mental health interventions? With inclusiveness in wellness we should consider “multicultural competence since cultural competence alone is not enough to address our uniqueness as people." Learn More about Multicultural Competency in Wellness.

We certainly will be getting a lot of the prognostications about what 2020 will look like in the coming months. Personally, I anticipate we will be inundated with phrases like “perfect vision,” “new decade,” “Roaring 2020s” … It will be interesting, too, as we will see massive political changes occurring across the world in 2020. How will this affect the Global Happiness Report, Well-Being Index, the International Economy, and an individual’s ability to find and maintain high-level wellness? 

Professionally, wellness is evolving at a rapid pace. Here are six ways I envision wellness reimagined in the next decade:

1. Wellness is an economic indicator – thriving communities view wellness as a strategic differentiator to their economic development efforts. A well community is a vibrant community with opportunities for their residents to learn, work, live and play.
2. Workplace, community and individual wellness efforts are better aligned to ALL 6 dimensions of wellness. The research already proves that the best initiatives for wellness support all dimensions and the removal of systems barriers for individuals, places, cultures, health, learning, and growth accelerates this movement!
3. Functional medicine is a key connector between wellness and health. In a world where we can get our DNA checked and build a customized approach to one’s lifestyle choices, functional medicine becomes a key success factor for those individuals who are at risk of chronic disease and who are managing a lifestyle-related chronic condition. It is already gaining momentum; I believe it will be a regular part of any coordination of care in 2020 and into the next decade.
4. Social Isolation is the biggest factor that is hurting our well-being and our economy, and governments, corporations, and communities will finally turn their attention to this major international issue.
5. Data analytics are focused on economic factors, social determinants of health AND health outcomes – rather than just clinical outcomes.
6. Systems for health, education, work, and living are changing toward making the individual the key to the success – not the process.

However, especially in the United States, the 2020 election could undermine these shifts. It will be interesting to see how stress, anxiety, polarization, a frenzy of social media, and the selection of the US President will affect wellness strategies across the globe.

There is tremendous excitement surrounding where the tides have swung regarding wellness, but there is still a lot of work to be done. Collectively, we are the world-wide voice of the wellness community, and we have the capabilities to drive the right message. Keep up the good fight. Wellness is winning.

Chuck Gillespie, CEO, National Wellness Institute

Chuck Gillespie, CEO of National Wellness Institute (NWI), announced at the 2019 National Wellness Conference that NWI has launched, in partnership with Pendella (a 50-state, online insurance agency), a new Health Insurance Program for members. This new benefit for NWI directly addresses a major challenge that you have brought to our attention: Accessing affordable health insurance. 

The new NWI Health Plan offers employers (5 or more employees):

• Potential savings of up to 40%
• Multiple Plan Options
• Reduced Administrative Burdens

Plus, there are additional options available for sole-proprietors who don’t have any employees, such as individual health plans and income protection insurance. 

Find out if the new NWI Health Plan can help you and your business curb health insurance costs and provide better access to care. Visit Pendella.com/nwi/getaquote and have your contact info handy. Pendella's Benefits Advisors are waiting to speak with you!

"Congrats on an amazing conference! Out of all of the different conferences that I have attended throughout my career this was hands down the best! The keynote speakers and morning kick-off sessions were amazing and each of the sessions I attended were filled with great information. I was able to meet and share information with a variety of individuals from all areas of wellness between sessions, at lunch, and during different sessions. Learning how to make ourselves better so that we can make our programs better was such a positive part of this conference. It really caused me to do some deep thinking and I was able to share that with Linda (just before she called me up on stage). Having been in this field for a few decades I have seen so many changes, ups and downs and everything in between happen with Wellness and I would say that it is more important now and at the front of companies mindsets not just for show as it was in the early years of corporate wellness. It also made me think about what I wanted to look to do in the field. They seem to want younger people in the corporate wellness sites so at some point I would love to be working for a group that needs help with ideas for programs, incentives, etc. Thank you for a great week and all that you and your staff put into making this conference life-changing for all of us that attended. I would love to do a session or help with next year’s conference in any way needed. I heard nothing but positive feedback from all I interacted with at the conference. Congrats to all at NWI!"

- Julie Hale

I’ve never gotten so many hugs at a conference!!! 🤗💛🤗 The @NatlWellnessInt practices what it teaches —and fosters #emotionalhealth in its members. I got a big boost being surrounded by so much #kindness yesterday… https://t.co/NSH1Jjwsbb

— Kelli Harding MD MPH (@HardingKelli) October 3, 2019

Had such an amazing time meeting all the best wellness professionals at @NatlWellnessInt #2019nwc and re-emphasizing that wellness is an industry of #CollaborationNOTCompetition and at such a beautiful venue! pic.twitter.com/nAHcgDAgTp

— Spencer Jones MPH (@SpencerJonesMPH) October 3, 2019

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I continue to go back to Dr. Halbert Dunn’s definition of high-level wellness. “Wellness is about potential – it involves helping the individual move toward the highest state of wellbeing of which he or she is capable.” It does not read that wellness is about group programs, literacy or, for that matter, health. It is about potential. 

For a tobacco user, let’s call him John, who wants to quit, the potential for John is that he can quit. To be successful, it is important to understand where John lives, who his friends/family are, why he started, what triggers his habit, and how dedicated he is to make the change. Only then (and probably another 20 questions) can we determine the best method for John’s success at quitting. Guess what, maybe John’s significant other smokes. That will be a big influence on John. 

What is interesting is that the concept of a one-size-fits-one mindset has been a big discussion point during the NWI’s Multicultural Competency in Wellness trainings. Because we have to recognize a person’s unique self and their experiences, their choices, and their influences, or we will never be able to provide assistance in a way that is going to be successful to them. 

As a wellness leader, you also need to understand a person’s readiness for change. It does not matter how much research is behind a given program, resource, tool or proven success, if the individual with the potential for change does not want to change, then they will not change. 

So how can you lead the opportunity to develop human potential? 

1. Continue to be curious and educate yourself on what opportunities are available to help develop human potential. Learn from others and connect with them about health coaching, community wellness, and workplace wellness strategies. 
2. Know who is ready to make changes today and get them the resources they need to the best of your ability. And also support them and keep them accountable. 
3. If they are not ready, continue to educate them — a great tool is the NWI’s Six Dimensions of Wellness — and provide the knowledge to let them see what their potential can be.
   
4. Review who is engaging in your wellness initiatives and who is self-selecting out. Determine if your wellness strategies and programming are targeting those individuals you are trying to target. By the way, know the difference in who is participating and who is engaging — there is a big difference. 
   
5. Promote in many different ways and through many different avenues. Also, target your promotions to the audience you want to see the most engaged. Most promotions today are geared to already healthy populations (in all Six Dimensions of Wellness). 

Chuck Gillespie, CEO, National Wellness Institute

1. Get Noticed

The exhibit hall provides many chances to connect face-to-face with attendees throughout the day. And with a very limited number of exhibit spaces available, you're sure to stand out!

2. Make Connections

Hundreds of wellness professionals and practitioners will walk through the exhibit space during the Conference. Where else can you reach such a targeted audience?

3. Create Excitement

Launch your new product, company, or service where the industry's leaders and influencers are gathered. Start the buzz and watch it grow!

4. Educate Yourself

Exhibit packages include 2 full Conference waivers, allowing you to attend sessions and learn more about the very latest in wellness research, trends, and best practices.

5. Strengthen Your Brand

Showcase your company as a major player in the rapidly-growing wellness industry. Interacting in person has a much larger impact on your audience than online or print.

6. Follow Up After the Conference

Whether you gather contact information at your booth, or use the attendee mailing list provided to you after the Conference, you'll have the "in" to follow-up and continue the relationships you started on-site.

What's included: 

Included in your exhibit registration this year is an 6’ exhibit table and two Main-Conference (Oct 1-3) passes, as well as having your organization listed in the conference program that is distributed to every conference attendee. 

Space is filling up!

Exhibit space is VERY limited, so register now to ensure that your organization is part of the 2019 National Wellness Conference!

Exhibit at NWC 2019

View the NWC 2019 Exhibiting & Sponsorship Brochure

Not part of the NWI community? Follow this link or simply contact us at nwi@nationalwellness.org or call us at 715-342-2969

As marketing efforts evolve, are the actual programs, tools, resources, and trainings also evolving? Or do the same programs just have a new name? The latest term is well-being (or is it wellbeing or well being?). Be less concerned with what it is called, and be more focused on what wellness is accomplishing. Wellness is the program, the initiative, the event, the strategy. Well-being is the result. 

The proven success of any wellness initiative is contingent on developing programs that meet all Six Dimensions of Wellness. Emotional and social wellness are a big focus in this newsletter, including what you need to know to build wellness strategies that meet these needs. Enjoy, and remember wellness is a process! It is also a condition and a state of mind. A special note: If you have read this, please email me at chuck@nationalwellness.org because I have a special deal you might enjoy (whether you are already a member of the NWI community or not).

Chuck Gillespie, CEO, National Wellness Institute

Most exciting is the beginning of the first-of-its kind Multicultural Competency in Wellness Certificate program. There is tremendous demand and interest in bringing this type of training to workplaces and communities across the globe. Be sure to check it out and get signed up for the program. 

All of these great happenings within the National Wellness Institute reflect the need for individuals, workplaces, and communities to better understand the power of a wellness initiative. On May 8, we conducted a free webinar with Julie Ray of Gallup to discuss their latest studies on happiness and emotions. What we know is that these are key success factors in how you build a great strategy for wellness. On May 16, we teamed up with WELCOA to present information on a study conducted on a workplace wellness program in Illinois. These were interesting findings. The most intriguing was how selection bias is a key success factor. 

Selection bias is an emotion, not a treatment program. Gallup’s studies on happiness and emotions coincide with their work on the Well-being Index Gallup has conducted for over a decade. The Well-being Index reflects many of NWI’s own Six Dimensions of Wellness. 

So, the real question is a basic one: Great! NOW WHAT?! 

Watch for opportunities over the months ahead to gain the knowledge and skills you need to take the research we continue to bring you and utilize it to run a strategic wellness initiative at work, in your community, or simply for yourself. Further, be part of the conversation, as we will begin to seek best practices, more research, and evolving strategies from you. 

Wellness is evolving—are you? The National Wellness Institute is leading the way. Join us on the journey. 

Chuck Gillespie, CEO, National Wellness Institute

The National Wellness Institute had the pleasure of attending the January IFEBP sponsored Health Benefits Conference & Expo in Clearwater Beach, Florida. Those in attendance were Trina Laube (NWI Director of Education and Outreach), Linda Howard (NWI Board President), and Sherri Galle-Teske (NWI Director of Membership and Engagement).

A big thank you to Linda Howard for providing a fantastic session on “Why Should Worksite Wellness Programs Focus on Multicultural Competency?” to the HBCE attendees.

Dr. Lana Saal, Nicole Stec, Rachel Druckenmiller, SALGBA, and Brent Hines (Foundation For Financial Wellness) were on hand to do presentations, man booths, and get the word out on wellness. We were so proud to be a participant on behalf of NWI and engage with power-house presenters such as these. 

It was wonderful to get out of the Wisconsin weather, but even better to meet more wellness professionals and visit old friends. Here are a few of the highlight photos we took.

Sherri Galle-Teske and Trina Laube

Rachel Druckenmiller, Linda Howard, Lana Saal, and Nicole Stec

Doug Field, Trina Laube, Brent Hines

Linda Howard and HBCE 2019 attendees

Sherri Galle-Teske and Lana Saal

Wellness is a term that has widespread name recognition. It is also a term that is seeking an identity. If I put 50 people in a room, I bet there will be at least 20 definitions. The person credited for using the term first is Dr. Halbert Dunn in the 1950s. This is why NWI has an award named in his honor. As I reflect on the many definitions and iterations of the word wellness, I continue to look at how Dr. Bill Hettler, Dr. John Travis, Dr. Jane Ellery, and others have kept Dunn’s core definition alive. 

Hettler’s Six Dimensions of Wellness, which is the basis for the NWI mission, is reflective of Dunn’s view of whole self. Travis’s Illness/Wellness Continuum is a great visual for how Dunn viewed wellness as a point of view, not as a point of health. Personally, Jane Ellery is the one who introduced me to Dunn’s definition and continues to expand that knowledge. 

Let me paraphrase Halbert Dunn’s definition of wellness:
“Developing human potential.   Within the environment.   To learn and grow”

Individuals must have the knowledge, skills and abilities to learn and grow intellectually. They must have a safe and positive environment at home (spiritual) and at work (occupational). Individuals must also have their physical health, their emotional well-being, and not be socially isolated. 

Our industry needs an organization like NWI to connect and collaborate with all facets of the world of health and wellness. We must provide the open forum for dialogue about how we navigate the evolution of global well-being.

I personally want to see NWI continue to:

• Provide the best training, resources, and education for individuals to educate and train others.
• Offer a forum for open dialogue and discussion about the evolution of wellness.
• Interconnect wellness professions in academics, health-care, communities, fitness, nutrition, psychology, legal, diversity, clinical, spiritual, business, and the many who see wellness as a forum to develop human potential. 
• Build coalitions with like-minded groups to expand research, metrics, and evidence-based programming in order to drive global change in policy and environment. 
• Showcase best practices, latest trends, and the future.
• Be the place where together, individuals join to learn and grow. 
• Expand and evolve every one of these goals above. 

This is my own vision for the National Wellness Institute. Are you with us? 

December 11, 2018 - Great new things are happening at the National Wellness Institute (NWI). We welcome Linda Howard as newly elected President of the Board of Directors and Chuck Gillespie as the Interim Executive Director of the National Wellness Institute.

Linda Howard was elected as the new Board president of the National Wellness Institute. She is the CEO of Alturnative, a healthcare compliance and ethics consultancy that serves the health, fitness, and wellness industries.  Linda is also committed to using her leadership to advance dialogues on changing the wellness and healthcare industries for the better. Through her work she encourages others to reach underserved populations, engage in purposeful dialogue, and promote business ethics and values that support individual and organizational wellness. Linda has been on the Board since July 2013. She previously held the positions of Treasurer and Vice President, consecutively.  

“I am both excited and honored to serve as NWI’s Board President. This is an electrifying time for NWI as we bring in new programs and host our National Wellness Conference 2019 in Florida for the first time. Yet it is a time for personal and organizational introspection as we build new roads by collectively walking them,” Linda says.

Chuck Gillespie is serving as the Interim Executive Director of the National Wellness Institute while the organization seeks to fill its recent vacancy of the Executive Director position. Chuck led the Wellness Council of Indiana (WCI) for six years. In that time, the WCI received statewide and national awards for its work in both community and workplace wellness programming.  He has over 25 years in operations, finance, HR, and non-profit management. As a consultant with Nyhart, one of the largest independent actuary firms in the United States, Chuck spends his time helping employers integrate benefits, wellness, and financial planning.  He has nearly two decades of experience in community and workplace wellness.

“The current Board of Directors has a great respect for the history and legacy of NWI, and so do I.  During this interim period, one of my roles is to review the entire operation to ensure NWI is on track to expand and grow its mission across the globe,” shares Chuck. 

“We are pleased to have someone with Chuck’s background and enthusiasm to serve NWI during this transition period,” says Howard. 

The National Wellness Institute welcomes Chuck to the team, and Linda to lead the way!

Once Chuck completes the operational analysis, the NWI Board will conduct a search for the next full-time director. We are also bringing on new board members in 2019. Interested individuals should watch for an announcement of the search opening and call for board nominations. “There are great things ahead for NWI and its members, and new opportunities to serve,” says Howard. 

A bright future is ahead for NWI

The NWI team has been hard at work building new relationships and enhancing its member benefits.  In 2019, NWI will expand its online continuing education course options and will provide even more member-exclusive tools and discounts. We now also offer our new Financial Wellness Facilitator course, in partnership with the Foundation for Financial Wellness, as an interactive eLearning course.

Our recently formed Emerging Wellness Professionals (EWP) task force brings fresh ideas as well. We are giving new wellness professionals a voice at NWI. “We are very excited about our new EWP task force. The purpose of this group is to motivate emerging wellness professionals to become active members of the organization, and to engage and empower the wellness leaders of tomorrow,” says Eirasmin Lokpez-Cobo, NWI Board Member. Look for their articles and involvement in the coming year, as well as their presence at NWI’s 2019 conference.

Planning for 44th Annual National Wellness Conference is underway. Our theme this year is The Key to Thriving: Six Dimensions of Wellness, and session proposals are now being accepted.  In 2019 the conference will be September 30 - October 2. It will be held at the fabulous Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Kissimmee, Florida.  

NWI is proud to be one of the developers of this conference, which provides an educational and informational program in the Southwest Florida community for people dealing with Diabetes and the complications of Diabetes. In addition, it provides a platform for those who want to support the effort of supplying life-sustaining insulin and testing supplies for children in need. The conference held multiple workshops from experts across the country on topics pertaining to Diabetes and wellness. FSW Nursing faculty and students hosted a Diabetes crisis simulation and blood sugar testing.

The conference is brought to Naples through the collaborative effort of the Help a Diabetic Child Foundation, Core Health Partners, Healthcare Network of Southwest Florida, and the National Wellness Institute.

Our new financial wellness trainings created in partnership with the Foundation for Financial Wellness (FFW) are here!

Earn your Facilitator Certificate and provide resources and training for wellness professionals to present to the populations they serve. Earn 7 CECs with this course, which includes the Case for Financial Wellness webinar. You can also opt to take the webinar as a stand-alone course for 2 CECs.

Click here for more details and to register for the inaugural courses.