The Center for Wellness and Lifelong Learning provides an intentional co-curriculum of workshops and learning experiences that encourage students to develop a well-rounded and balanced life. The Center helps students develop multiple ways of knowing the self, others and the world, empowers students to actively engage in life’s challenges by making ethical and fulfilling choices grounded in a rich sense of identity, positive dispositions and healthy habits over a lifetime.

Ecological Wellness --

An awareness of the complex relationships of humans to the built and natural environments around them, emphasizing natural systems that enable environmentally sustainable choices.

Spiritual Wellness --

An examined and integrating set of beliefs that provides meaning and purpose which includes a sense of mystery, wonder and hope.

Physical Wellness --

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.

Emotional Wellness --

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 Wellness --

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.

Social Wellness --

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.

Economic Wellness --

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.

Vocational Wellness --

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.