"We wanted to focus on the whole person, which is why NIWH was the ideal fit for us. This program has deepened what we already know and has helped us to learn about the aspects of health we don’t… it has created a lot of passion in us about how we can [educate] talk with our patients…"  

                                                                                          Lisa Von Getson, RN, CNP
Founder Hermitage Farm Center for Healing
Family Nurse Practitioner, Mayo Clinic

NIWH continues to conduct ongoing Whole Health Education® pilot studies. The data generated by these studies examines and evidences the impact of Whole Health Education on several important outcomes within health care delivery environments.

NIWH studies on Whole Health Education have identified, from the first application of the model in a clinical setting, the impact it brings to transforming health care environments through in the moment mindfully present interactions and demystified, evidence-based patient health education which result in: enhanced patient/client satisfaction; enhanced job satisfaction for providers; increases self-directed patient/client compliance; reduces stress induced errors and workplace attrition. NIWH's Behavioral Engagement model affirms, in the words of the model's founder that "you cannot change old behavior without new information". Whole Health information offers for health professionals, as well as their patients and clients, knowledge and tools for health maintainence and disease prevention from a whole person approach.