Topics: Education

What is wellness? How do we support learning through movement, dance, stories, art, laughter, and activities? Experience a wellness course through participants’ words and photos. Thank you to the wellness course participants for sharing this learning journey. Wellness abides in the heart of the community. Beat the drum…

Religious beliefs baffle me. I find it odd that many people just don't talk about it (as if it doesn't matter) but religious outlooks really seem to determine a lot of things in the world even today. While I acknowledge the many, great, good things religions still do in the world, I can't help connecting seemingly innocuous things like evangelism with horrendous things religions have done in the world.

This is Elicia's story about her survival through the public healthcare system and her cerebal palsy as well as her journey to become the disability activist she is today.  This story was created through a workshop with the Michigan Disability Rights Coalition and UCP Michigan.

LaRita shares her families history as Native Americans in the education system and how it has motivated her to become the teacher and advocate she is today.

This story shows a brief impression I felt in a moment of starting development of my life. I was leaving my home to travel to Costa Rica, where another family was waiting for me. Me and a lot of great people had worked hard to make this possible. Finally I arrived and things were not so happy at the beginning because of cultural shock but by the time is life experience.

This is the story of a "dynamic duo" from Tucson.

Xochitl describes her experience volunteering in Nicaragua.

This is a story about a girl scout and a prisioner reentry advocate.

This is a story of how Willie Blake grew up on a small farm with family responsibilities and made a good life for himself and his community.