Wellbeing Consultation and Facilitation
Wellbeing for individuals is inextricably intertwined with other people, systems, and the natural living world around us - an ecological interconnectedness. Accessible, engaging, and expansive, these workshops are designed on a bespoke basis and typically draw from empirical science and wisdom traditions from around the world.
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When Jo started reading about healing and wellbeing from a Buddhist perspective, they become obsessed! Teaching Buddhist and Yogic practices were a part of this study, as well as reading every book on this topic they could get their hands on. Their Western academic study of wellbeing started in 2009, taking courses on the science of wellbeing through UC Berkeley and UNC Chapel Hill’s MOOCs. It was 2011 when Indigenous wellbeing came to the fore for Jo, through reconnection with their ancestral lineage in Hawai`i and in working on Kanaka ʻŌiwi education and wellbeing efforts before focus on Kanaka ʻŌiwi wellbeing in clinical psychology, social welfare, and public health. It’s always a learning journey, and Jo loves sharing about wellbeing in multiple forms, particularly for communities, ogs, and individuals working toward collective ea (liberation).
Each organization has a unique culture, mission, leadership, and environment that inform ideal workplace wellbeing initiatives. Jo integrates empirical evidence with contextual factors likes these to design balanced and collaborative projects with clients representing orgs. This might include wellbeing programming, measurement, or implementation. Read Jo’s bio or connect to learn more.
Jo is committed to the mauli ola and hoʻomana of Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiians), the Indigenous peoples of Hawai'i. Their dissertation in clinical psychology was an offering to kūpuna, focused on decolonial and indigenized wellbeing for Kānaka ʻŌiwi. This work focused on identifying a theory of wellbeing for Kānaka in behavioral health contexts (Ke Ao Nōweo 'Ula: KANU) and measuring wellbeing for Kānaka (Kuku Mālamalama). Thanks to a grant from the Kūkulu Kumuhana Working Group, they recently launched Pilina Welo, a program centering a Kanaka ʻŌiwi conception of wellbeing for 24 organizations in Hawaiʻi. For a directory of mauli ola resources, visit E Ho'omana me nā Kumu Waiwai.