Advising Office: Room 2125, College of Health and Human Services
Telephone: (269) 387-2656

Sheena Bolton, Advisor

Integrative Holistic Health and Wellness is based on the philosophy of working with the whole person and recognizing the contextual factors that influence health. It is a system of principles and multidisciplinary approaches that promote well-being by considering the inter-connectedness among a person’s physical, psychological, social, spiritual, environmental and physical levels of functioning.

The Integrative Holistic Health and Wellness program at Western Michigan University was established in 1982, and is one of the first academic programs of its kind in the United States. Along with offering graduate certificates in holistic health, we offer an undergraduate minor.

The minor in Integrative Holistic Health and Wellness (IHHW) consists of an 18-credit hour course of study designed to meet the needs of students interested in learning about the theory and practice of integrative holistic health and wellness. Through a required sequence of courses students explore holistic concepts related to their individual health, including the interconnectedness of the body, mind and spirit. Concurrent with the study of how integrative holistic health and wellness practices impact the individual is the focus on how expression of these principles in our lives affect the broader community.