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Definitions
3-D Health: a combination of personal, community, and environmental health.
Personal
health: an unmedicated state of being marked by consistently high mental, emotional, and physical function.
Community health: healthy functioning by a group of people.
Environmental health: having conditions that support life, including clean water and air, fertile soil, and biological diversity.
Wellness: maintaining health over time.
Fitness: the ability to complete physical, mental, and emotional tasks.
• Physical components: speed, agility, power, strength, endurance, coordination, flexibility, and specific
and general skill
• Mental components: concentration, creativity, problem solving, handling complexity, and memory
• Emotional components: handling set-backs, interpreting situations and events in empowering ways,
having a positive self-image, and keeping perspective
Note: These definitions reflect our belief in human potential. We use high standards to challenge ourselves and others to find out what is actually possible.
Rules
#6: Don't take yourself so darn seriously.
Tenets (a.k.a. How We Roll)
3-D Health: considering and standing for it
Integrity:
• Responsibility for outcomes and other people (including by evaluating our impacts)
• Courage to experiment, learn, put stuff out there, “fail,” embrace a complex/uncertain/imperfect reality, ID
and take on weaknesses, etc.
• Determination to learn no matter what and overcome apparent obstacles
• Creativity/resourcefulness to create and capitalize on opportunities, human potential, and resources
Community/teamwork: working in ways that empower the participants
Possibility: seeing it in people, relationships, and the present moment
Mindfulness: being aware of things like your thoughts, words, beliefs, attitudes, and actions (and those of others, when possible)
Balance: between stress and recovery, in using time or energy, and in relationships (with people, work, pleasure, substances, hobbies, the earth, etc.)