For over 25 years, the Master of Arts in Holistic Health Education program in
the
School of Holistic Studies has inspired students to
develop, communicate, and apply an integrative perspective
of health, education, and knowledge of best practices
as a foundation for professional work.
All courses in the Holistic Health Education program integrate academic principles, professional
skills, social awareness, and personal growth. The program
prepares students to build bridges between mainstream
approaches to health and complementary approaches that
arise out of a holistic paradigm. In this paradigm, human
attention and action shift from disease treatment to a
proactive model focused on creating health through
self-care and wellness practices.
Students and faculty in the Holistic Health Education program explore the links among the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of
health. Students inquire into how life experience is
influenced by thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, as well as by
food, movement, the environment and the character of
relationships. This perspective deepens their understanding
of health and prepares them to be leaders who
approach health issues through a variety of integrative
modalities.
The Holistic Health Education program also offers students opportunities to enhance their own health and well-being. Students develop a practice of self-inquiry and engage in a spiritual practice. This holistic educational model includes conceptual and experiential work as well as opportunities to apply learning in the service of social transformation.
The career directions open to graduates are almost endless. The MA in Holistic Health Education prepares individuals for professional work with clinical health teams; in health agencies or wellness programs in hospitals; for teaching; consulting services; setting up or directing healing centers; writing; consulting; and health coaching. Graduates of the program find exciting professional opportunities to:
- Establish and direct holistic health centers
- Facilitate workshops on wellness in the corporate world.
- Have a private practice as a whole health coach.
- Provide health education in a hospital or HMO wellness program.
- Conduct wellness classes for seniors.
- Work with children's health or create programs for teens.
- Establish and/or work in nonprofits.
- Facilitate cancer support groups.
- Establish links between sustainable gardens and health.
- Create health promotion materials in a variety of media.
- Raise funds for health-related charities.
Students in the Holistic Health Education program have the opportunity to intern in a variety of organizations, including the following:
Health Education Externships
Kaiser; California Pacific Medical Center's Institute for Health and Healing;
Berkeley High School; Hoffman Institute; Children's Hospital
Program Development and Administration Externships
Aegis; Teleosis; McKinnon Institute for Massage;
Berkeley Ecology Center; Bauman College; VNA/Hospice in Emeryville
Research Externships
Institute of Noetic Sciences; Osher Center for Integrative Research;
CMPC Institute for Health and Healing; California Institute of Integral Studies
Writing, Marketing and Publishing Externships
Health Medicine Institute; Berkeley Ecology Center; Rainforest Action Network
Click here for the program curriculum.
For more information call 800.696.5358, or write
proginfo@jfku.edu.
