Wellness Circles

Wellness Circles meet weekly, providing a support system and promoting accountability for like-minded people to learn and make life style changes together.

At each meeting, attendees exchange and discuss headlining wellness news, articles, studies and books. Helpful and accurate information is shared with others and highlights include guest speakers, potluck dinners, and cooking demonstrations and recipes. Attendees discuss their own progress and concerns on their personal journey to wellness and both receive and give help and emotional support to others. While expanding their knowledge, Wellness Circle attendees also learn accountability and discipline.

Participants receive membership to Wellness Foundation’s interactive online Wellness Community, where they can gain further support, ask questions, and receive answers from trained staff – via e-mail or telephone.

Participants also receive discounted book prices on required reading materials.

Requirements and Expectations:
Participants are required to sign a release and provide baseline medical information via a program start/end questionnaire. Participants are expected to keep a daily food journal, read and discuss educational materials, set personal goals and implement a personal wellness plan.

Required Reading:
The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell
Eat for Health by Dr. Joel Fuhrman
Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn
The Spectrum by Dr. Dean Ornish
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
Younger Next Year by Dr. Henry Lodge and Chris Crowley
Quantum Wellness by Kathy Freston

Registration and Cost:
Register now; registration closes after November 8 to allow for a secure and confidential setting for participants. Suggested donation for eight-month program: $200.

Wellness Circles meet weekly, excluding public school vacation weeks, from the first week of November 2008 through the end of June 2009.

Mondays: East Hampton YMCA, 7-9pm

Tuesdays: East Hampton Middle School, 7-9pm; and Pierson Middle School, Sag Harbor, 7-9pm

Wednesdays: Montauk Playhouse, 4-6pm, and 7-9pm