Centre for Holistic Health
Founded in 1994, Huntington University’s Holistic Health Centre exists to bring to the community at large a focus on the spiritual and ethical components of a holistic understanding of health. Its goals are:
• To use the Centre and through it the resources of Huntington University as the vehicle for the identification of needs
pertinent to the Mission Statement and for the delivery of appropriate services;
• To sponsor consultation, workshops, educational travel and such other events;
• To enlist the partnership of other educational and community resources;
• To avail ourselves of both live and multi-media formats in the delivery of programs;
• To ensure that our outlook is non-denominational, interfaith and interdisciplinary.
What do we mean by “holistic?”
The word “holistic” emphasizes the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts. The holistic health paradigm emerging today in Western industrialized nations is not new. It is contained in the traditional medicine of China, India and various indigenous peoples throughout the world, including our own North American native tradition. We in modern Western society are only now beginning to reconnect body, mind and spirit.
Human beings are mental, physical and spiritual beings. In order to be whole we must integrate and nourish all four aspects of our humanity, recognizing both their individual uniqueness and interdependence.
