Webinar: Advancing wellbeing through social prescribing Webinar: Advancing wellbeing through social prescribing

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

3pm – 4pm ET / 9pm – 10pm CET

Imagine a future where doctors prescribe more than just drugs. Dan Morse (Co-Founder and Founding Director of Social Prescribing USA) and Dr. Ardershir Hashmi (MD, FACP, FNAP is the Endowed Chair of Geriatric Innovation and Section Chief of the Center for Geriatric Medicine at Cleveland Clinic) takes viewers to that future by spotlighting successes of the present — educating the community on the history, evidence base, and practice of social prescribing, with an eye to what other social entrepreneurs, grassroots organizations, universities, governments and healthcare professionals can learn. Julia Hotz (Journalist and author of THE SOCIAL PRESCRIPTION (Simon & Schuster, 2024) will moderate the webinar, and help viewers explore to advance the benefits of social prescribing in their own wellbeing journeys, in the meantime.

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Dr. Ardeshir Z Hashmi's bio
Dan Morse's Bio
Julia Hotz's Bio

Julia Hotz

Julia Hotz is a solutions-focused journalist currently writing THE SOCIAL PRESCRIPTION (2024), a book exploring the science and stories of social prescribing by chronicling how doctor-led interventions for nonmedical supports —like art, nature, exercise, volunteer service, conversation groups, and economic resources—are making healthcare more effective, equitable, and sustainable. Her stories have appeared in WIRED UK, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, TIME, Popular Science, Scientific American, and more. After studying sociology at the University of Cambridge, she joined the Solutions Journalism Network, where she helps other journalists and entrepreneurs do and spread rigorous, evidence-based reporting on solutions to today’s biggest problems.

Dan Morse

Dan Morse is the co-founder of Social Prescribing USA, a network of leaders working to advance the US Social Prescribing movement. His team of volunteers are coordinating a US grassroots physician movement, organizing a network of 400+ experts, and catalyzing prospective pilot studies in collaboration with professors at Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan, reps from hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, and the NIH. Aimed to be the “public town square” of the moment, the organization is also building a free site to allow people to find social prescriptions by zip code.

Dan has spent the past decade focused on social determinants of health, from organizing place-based health interventions in Detroit to founding an award-winning health empowerment restaurant. Today, Dan is on the founding team of a new Bachelor’s degree-granting college in San Francisco, called Make School (now Dominican University). The college prepares students from disadvantaged backgrounds to get jobs at companies like Apple, Google, Tesla, and NASA. Dan has pioneered data-driven programs that address students’ social determinants of health and foster academic success. He graduated from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business with honors.

Dr. Ardeshir Z. Hashmi

MD, FACP, FNAP.

He is the Endowed Chair of Geriatric Innovation and Section Chief of the Center for Geriatric Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Hashmi completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at Yale University. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the Yale-Saint Mary’s Hospital in Connecticut, where he served as Chief Medical resident. He then trained at Massachusetts General Hospital as a Clinical and Research Fellow in Geriatrics before becoming Faculty and then Medical Director of MGH Senior Health-Harvard Medicine. Dr. Hashmi subsequently transitioned to the Cleveland Clinic.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the National Academies of Practice, a graduate of the Clinical Process Improvement Leadership Program and the Value Based Healthcare Delivery program via the Harvard Business School Institute of Strategy & Competitiveness. Dr. Hashmi is also certified as an Advanced Peer Coach through the Cleveland Clinic Center for Excellence in Coaching and Mentoring. He is Co-Chair of the national American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Patient Priorities Care Special Interest Group (SIG) and serves on the AGS Health Systems Innovation Economics & Technology Committee and the Society for General Internal Medicine’s Geriatrics Commission. Dr. Hashmi is also a member of the Association of Chiefs and Leaders in General Internal Medicine (ACLGIM). He is an alumnus of the prestigious Tideswell Emerging Leaders in Aging (ELIA) national leadership development program (in conjunction with the American Geriatric Society and the University of California San Francisco) and the ACLGIM LEAD programs. He is also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Dr. Hashmi’s niche area of interest is the intersection of technology and population health in the service of our most vulnerable populations.

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The team at The Wellbeing Project as well as the community and the coalition of people and organizations behind our work have achieved so much to catalyze individual and collective wellbeing, and to serve the needs of social changemakers who have been called upon to do even more during the pandemic.

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Advanced our Think Tank research on Intergenerational Trauma and Ecological Belonging alongside Georgetown University

Launched new learning communities in sub-sectors of social change, including for grassroots human rights defenders around the world

Released a first of its kind research study on teacher and caregiver mental health and wellbeing;

Launched a Corporate and Academia group to partner with and share learnings between other sectors;

Hosted a ten-month series of webinars with extraordinary teachers that have been a supportive and rich meeting ground for our broader community;

Continued our editorial partnership with key publications for the Centered Self article series.

Engaged and influenced philanthropic actors to unlock the resources needed for inner wellbeing in the field

Hosted the first installments — featuring exhibitions with partners Guggenheim Bilbao, Draiflessen Collection and TBA21 — in a unique artistic program leading to The Wellbeing Summit for Social Change in Bilbao-Biscay, Spain.

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“Being part of a movement is personal. It is also aspirational. To be part of the wellbeing movement for social change is rooted in the belief that challenges can be overcome; that innovation can create solutions, and that all social changemakers- no matter their background- can lead healthy, balanced lives. Above all, to play your part in catalyzing a culture of inner wellbeing is to be optimistic that change is possible.”

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In 2022, together as a community, we:

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Expanded our coalition of 400+ organizations who are together providing wellbeing support to hundreds of thousands of changemakers.

Developed new waves of activity with some of our community networks, like our university network – WISE, which has grown to 100 members globally.

Our first Wellbeing Summit for Social Change sparked a global network. It also defined our strategic framework for the next three and a half years.

After successful collaborations on the Think Tank, Georgetown. University joined us as a new Co-creator of the project.

We have continued to work on research that will position us to launch three reports in 2023: Intergenerational Trauma, Organizational Wellbeing, and Teacher Wellbeing.

We are developing an organizational framework that is emergent and co-creative, led by a newly formed leadership team.

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Thank you to everyone who participated in our first Wellbeing Summit for Social Change!

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Teacher Wellbeing Report

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Teachers impact children in a lot of ways, from teaching the lifelong skill of how to learn, to the practical skills to navigate daily life and to modeling healthy, respectful interactions. To optimally teach children, we need teachers with strong wellbeing.

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INAUGURAL RESEARCH REPORT LAUNCH

The Teacher Wellbeing Group at The Wellbeing Project in partnership with WISE Qatar and Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at Duke University
officially launched an extensive report on teacher wellbeing with case studies from Cambodia, Kenya and Qatar.

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Fundación Mi Sangre

Colombia.

Originally founded by singer-songwriter Juanes in 2006, Fundación Mi Sangre was elevated to global recognition through the innovation and systems change approach led by co-founder and current chairperson Catalina Cock Duque, a successful social entrepreneur and global weaver with more than 20 years of experience in development. Our youth empowerment ethos is driven by our belief in the inherent potential residing in Colombia’s young people to become agents of change. Fundación Mi Sangre believes that Colombia’s youth—when given the guidance and the tools—will be the champions who make our country more peaceful and equitable.

To that end, we facilitate systemic cultural change, activating the ecosystems surrounding youth and engaging them as the primary contributors to personal, community, and societal transformation. Our carefully crafted model harnesses arts and culture to develop life, leadership, and social entrepreneurship skills, equipping and mobilizing our participants as co-creators of transformative peace solutions. We engage all actors of the ecosystem, including schools, partner organizations, and communities, weaving them together to align visions, encourage collaboration, and empower the next generation to lead the construction of a peace culture. We listen to, convene, and activate the diverse stakeholders and voices in a given community, and enhance their potential to influence young people and change existing narratives through ongoing dialogue, training, and support. Acknowledging that inner well-being is essential to all of the work we do, transversal psychosocial support underpins our programs, available in both individual and group settings to highly vulnerable and at-risk youth and families in need of this foundation for peace-building.

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Learning for Well-being Foundation

Washington,
United States.

CoCo Labs is a systems change organization, dedicated to advancing equitable wellbeing for collective thriving. We believe that everyone, no matter what their current reality, should have access to the tools and support needed to transcend their wellbeing limitations and reach their fullest potential.

Our main aim is to build a coalition of organizations and individuals engaged in shifting multiple systems toward wellbeing for all. In the same way that the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) economics demonstrates that by raising the income of the poorest, the greatest knock-on effect occurs towards a country’s economy, our theory of change includes the notion that by raising the quality of life experience of the most challenged, a country’s thriveability will increase exponentially.
We begin by working with systems leaders to support them in showing up as the best versions of themselves. Leaders that are able to hold multiple perspectives, see systems as living systems, and navigate complexity, are able to create the conditions for communities, at a global level, to thrive even in adverse conditions.

CoCo Labs is working towards the advancement of equitable wellbeing for collective thriving. Thriving goes beyond resilience and well-being to describe a state in which:

  • Everyone is powerful – systemic oppression is phased out
  • Radical “othering” is a thing of the past – cultural competence and integration of diverse ways of being and doing are the norms
  • Communities live in harmony with nature – supported by, and supporting, ecosystem services
  • Individual and collective healing and resilience – communities are able to navigate uncertainty and complexity better
  • Communities demonstrate greater psychosocial development – they are able to move beyond resilience towards thriving, including a greater sense of individual and collective agency

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