Social Wellness Unconference
Care Culture is putting on two unconference events on social wellness this summer:
- Healdsburg CA, June 23 at Edge Esmeralda.
- NYC, July 13 (🔗 Registration) in collaboration with One Fact Foundation and Healwise.
The Unconference for Social Wellness is a free event aiming to foster dialogue and collaboration across behavioral health specialists, integrative clinicians, and innovative community leaders.
With this event, we're asking: how can in-person social spaces for communities and cultures foster connection and positive health outcomes? What are workable models of collaboration between formal and informal care professionals?
Social wellness themes we'll be discussing:
- Embedding psychiatric and therapeutic care work into community settings
- Collaboration between licensed professionals and community leaders / paraprofessionals in informal carework roles (clergy, nonprofit leaders, community organizers)
- Implementing biopsychosocial and culturally-informed care models
- Financial models and incentives for financing public-private partnerships for third spaces, social wellness initiatives, bathhouses, social prescribing schemes
- Reimbursement pathways (value based care, fee-for-service, HSA/FSA, patient-funded) for alternative social care spaces
- Loneliness / social isolation interventions related to the built environment (urban mobility, public parks and space, street life)
- Extending social wellness to underprivileged / medicare / medicaid populations
Who's invited?
We welcome:
Behavioral Health Clinicians & Wellness Professionals: mental health clinicians, licensed therapists, licensed social workers, psychiatrists, coaches, counselors.
Innovative Community Leaders + Entrepreneurs: Community leaders and organizers, facilitators and guides, clergy, spacemakers, and local wellness entrepreneurs.
Integrative Practitioners: mind-body practitioners, retreat leaders, integration guides, and psychospiritual workers.
Unconference?
An unconference is a day of impromptu short-format talks, workshops, and opportunities for connection across regular professional boundaries. Unlike a normal conference, no formal talks or presentations will be given. Instead, attendees will be invited to submit suggested themes beforehand, and will have the opportunity to join discussion and workshop groups on this theme on the day.
Who's putting this on?
Care Culture is a membership organization for behavioral health professionals and community leaders working towards cultural and social health interventions.
One Fact Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to transforming healthcare access and efficiency using open source technologies.
Healwise is a tech nonprofit that connects help-seekers with affordable therapy, peer-based, and self-guided mental health services.
We hope you join us!