Background

The course is intended to bring to life a principle-based model of healthy psychological functioning known as Health Realization/Innate Health. Participants will recognize how to awaken a healthy, wise, common sense psychological perspective in themselves and in other people, regardless of circumstances. This course will prepare participants to strengthen their own healthy, insightful and wise approach to life and work (“the health of the helper”) and to develop their ability to relate to others, and to respond appropriately to an ever-changing and consistently demanding work and life environment.

Instructor Biography

Judith A. Sedgeman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Medicine. She teaches in the Community Health Promotion and Master’s in Public Health programs, and is the Leadership Director for the Center of Excellence in Women’s Health at the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center. For the past 20 years, Prof. Sedgeman has focused on the redefinition and deeper understanding of health, developing programs and fostering work to support interest in seeing innate health as an infinite human possibility and a state of being that transcends the “absence of illness.”

Computer Software Required

Internet Explorer
Adobe Acrobat
Quicktime Player
Macromedia Flash Player
Java 1.4.2_09

(Free software plug-ins are available in the Getting Started area of the course.)

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to understand and experience resiliency through meeting the following objectives:

1. Recognize principles that offer a logical and reliable explanation of the experiences of stress and resiliency.
2. Review the current theoretical models used in addressing stress and resiliency.
3. Understand what we call “stressors” and to recognize the role of “chronic” stress and “acute” stress in the experience of well-being.
4. Understand how and why all human experience comes from the continual process of thought.
5. Discover what drives behavioral/emotional options – why people do the things they do.
6. Recognize how and why all people can access resiliency, regardless of their physical health or life circumstances.
7. Recognize how people can overcome fears, concerns and limitations and improve their well-being by drawing on their own resiliency.
8. Recognize how to experience incrementally less stress.
9. Develop the ability to nurture in oneself and others the innate health and well-being that is a wellspring of positive change.
10. Discover how to sustain joy and enthusiasm for work and life, regardless of internal or external pressures.

Textbooks

The Missing Link: Reflections on Philosophy and Spirit
Author: Sydney Banks

Wisdom for Life: Three Principles for Well-Being
Author: Elsie Spittle

(These books are available at www.Amazon.com or West Virginia University Book Store.)

Course Structure and Schedule

This is a non-credit course offered for 2.5 continuing education units (CEUs) which is equivalent to 25 professional development hours (PDHs). Cost is $377 per student. The student can register at any time during the year. A certificate of course completion will be issued to the student.

Topics to be Studied

Unit 1: What is Resiliency?
Unit 2: Principles Underlying Resiliency
Unit 3: How Do Principles Change Our Approach to Resiliency?
Unit 4: Principle-Based Psychology
Unit 5: The Mind-Body Connection
Unit 6: Implications of Health Realization
Unit 7: Resiliency in Practice
Unit 8: Living from the Inside-Out

Methods of Student Evaluation

Each unit has learning activities, required readings, and self tests.

Registration

Register online through our secure server or fill out this form and fax or mail it to Extended Learning. You will be given class access by email within five working days. Call 1-800-2Learn2, or email WVUEnrich@mail.wvu.edu if you have any questions. Visa, Mastercard, Discover accepted.