Holistic Wellness

Written By Gabrielle Davis

Holistic wellness is something I’ve become more interested in as it relates to community development. In itself, there are seven elements or approaches that are key to development which include physical, mental, social, emotional, intellectual, vocational and environmental health.

While I am no where close to incorporating each of these throughout every project I’ve worked on, I do find that the more readily we are to discuss how each of these elements provides to the overall wellbeing of an individual or community, there are ways we can identify steps to take to include those.

One of the groups I had worked with recently had asked me for support in developing their approach. We focused on a collective impact approach, and shifted to how we can touch citizens within that community through each of these holistic wellness facets. Today that group is a shining example of how citizens within a community can come together, and think inclusively to all those that live, work, and play.

Gabrielle Davis

Why is taking a public space and transforming these beautiful urban landscapes temporarily into community focused events so particularly important to me? In part, bringing together the creative and service sector and our community is beneficial to encourage economic and community engagement through community event platforms, and because people need spaces to truly connect with one another. These community events transform public spaces, like parks, streets and vacant lots, to celebrate our cultural vitality and inspire these settings to become readily utilized by the public by encouraging both our civic and government organizations to activate these urban spaces into remarkable friendly places. Connecting our people to the places in our city through community events is a transformative process of urban landscape and mindset. This is the very reason place making in our community starts with a bit of exploration and community events are just one avenue to initiate this process.

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