What is health? How can it be promoted and made more appealing? These and many other challenging health and wellness questions were addressed in a freewheeling gathering at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle on November 3rd-and I was delighted to be one of the invitees. It was called the Health 3.0 Summit: A Convergence of People, Vision and Design. It was sponsored by the University of Washington, the Franciscan Hospice, Evergreen State University, Seattle Children's Hospital and many other private and public institutions.
The "Health 3.0 Movement" in the State of Washington was designed to change the face of health in that state. The underlying goal was expressed as "framing out the creative space that is Health 3.0 by generating a set of questions that we can use to engage people in designing a better health future for themselves and their communities." A daunting challenge, perhaps but the leaders believed their movement was animated by a vision of the potential of people. If "We the People decide it's time for a change, amazing things can happen." The sense in Seattle was that this can be done now "because change is coming-and this time it needs to be about us."
The so-called "timeless questions" included these:
* How do we make health more delicious and sexy and get better outcomes?
* What questions do we need to be asking and working on to engage people in designing a better health future for themselves and their communities?
My first thought was, "If health were more delicious and sexy, perhaps we'd be getting REAL wellness outcomes. For most, I don't think delicious or sexy come to mind when thinking about their health, which most do only when they lose it.
I believe the capacity for strong imagery is associated with the ability to ask good questions that lead to clear thinking and innovative pathways. That is the promise in the efforts to settle on effective question leading to solutions.
Let's assume that somehow "sexy and delicious" images of health would lead to better choices. Being well probably makes everything taste better and allows all life's pleasures, including those best sampled without textiles, to seem more delightful. Could anyone disagree? Just think of the person without health, someone in pain or disabled or diseased. Whether self-induced, inflicted by cruel fate or inexorable aging, the person in this state can't taste the same delicious flavors life affords as can those at the apex of good physical, emotional and mental health.
Now to the other part of the question-the first sentence: "HOW" do we make health more delicious and sexy?
Health is what it is, a subjective state perceived in varied ways based upon culture, education, opportunities and more. I suggest a variation of the question: "How do we make the attitudes, behaviors, commitments and supports that we believe are associated with the ways in which we view health more delicious and sexy?" Better yet, let's drop delicious and sexy and make the question: "How do we make the attitudes, behaviors, commitments and supports needed for well being and a high quality of life a priority for people everywhere in America, regardless of their circumstances?"
Let's frame health in relation to outcomes that everyone cares about, such as finding more happiness, better dealing with ethical issues, thinking critically in order to make wise decisions on key subjects (investments, beliefs, etc.) and maintaining high fitness levels, protecting and expanding personal freedoms and choices, finding added meaning on a daily basis and so on. Does this have appeal?
Let's keep in mind that if advancing a REAL wellness agenda tied to quality of life were easy, there would be plenty of it and little of risk reduction and medical management. One of the attractions of a focus on exuberance in all its forms is that it is pioneering work, with commensurate returns that could make a big difference in human outcomes.
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We want to give practical answers about positive wellness, that is, people doing things, learning things that boost their quality of life in non-medical ways. Can we agree that the health system should be given this direction, a direction that is more about enhanced living than eliminating illness and risks of disease?
The other challenge was, "What questions do we need to be asking and working on to engage people in designing a better health future for themselves and their communities?"
Is it, "How do I achieve my optimal weight?" Is it, "What's my ideal percentage of body fat?" Do you have any ideas about the most important of all wellness questions?
I think the most important wellness question relates somehow to the quest for a strong sense of what it (life) is all about, what are you doing here, what are your purposes and your mission. This quest is a form of asking, "What is the meaning of life," or at least "How can I find a continuing sense of meaning and purpose in the way I live, work and define my existence?" This search for meaning defines or certainly affects lifestyle choices-asking this question is not an isolated philosophical parlor game. For that reason, and because it is so rich in possibilities that could lead to positive satisfactions and advances of a psychological nature, I'd put it at the top of my list of candidate questions about what is most important.
Of course, the logical follow-up question most likely would be, "If this is such a great question, what is the most important ANSWER?"
Fair enough, but what if there IS no answer-at least not the same answer for everybody?
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