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Apr 25, 2024
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2013-2014 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Wellness Program
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 Return to: Northland’s Co-Curriculum: Character and Competence Curriculum
The Wellness program provides a set of workshops designed to help students develop well-rounded and balanced lives. Through these workshops, students develop multiple ways of knowing the self, others, and the world, and they are empowered to engage actively in life’s challenges by making ethical and fulfilling choices grounded in a rich sense of identity, positive disposition, and healthy habits.
In order to satisfy the College’s graduation requirements, students must complete workshops that focus on each of the eight Wellness dimensions listed below. Some workshops focus on a single wellness dimension, but many focus on more than one dimension. Thus, most students satisfy the Wellness Program requirements with 4-5 workshops.
Any student may complete up to 2 dimensions through advanced study or ―Attending a Professional Conference‖ options. Transfer students and non-traditional students may complete up to 2 dimensions via the prior life experience petition. All of these options must be approved by the Co-curricular Council. For more information about these alternatives, contact the Wellness Program Coordinator.
All Northland College students, including transfer students, must complete the Wellness program requirements prior to graduation. Students are encouraged to start the program during their first semester of attendance.
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Ecological:
An awareness of the complex relationships of humans to the built and natural environments around them, emphasizing natural systems that enable environmentally sustainable choices.
Economic:
The ability to make informed choices about finances and consumption commensurate with a socially responsible quality of life, including the awareness of the relationship of personal economics to the whole of one’s life.
Emotional:
The ability to respond resiliently to the emotional states of self and others, which leads to appropriate expressions and communication, and to develop and maintain interdependent relationships built on trust, commitment and respect.
Intellectual:
A lifelong curiosity cultivated through a creative engagement with complex ideas; the practice of critical thinking; a nurtured imagination; and a liberal disposition to the ideas and values of others.
Physical:
A commitment to making positive choices and creating healthy habits that amplify awareness, appreciation, and acceptance of the strength of one’s body holistically throughout the various stages of life.
Social:
An on-going commitment to the common good and social justice fostered by positive relationships with others, encouraging mutual respect, welcoming and appreciating difference, the capacity to trust, and a willingness to listen and speak honestly.
Spiritual:
An examined and integrated set of beliefs that provide meaning and purpose, which include a sense of mystery, wonder, and hope.
Vocational:
A developed self-knowledge of values, talents, goals and interests, and the ability to balance work and recreation in order to find ongoing fulfillment in life.
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Return to: Northland’s Co-Curriculum: Character and Competence Curriculum
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