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MA IN HOLISTIC HEALTH EDUCATIONThe Master of Arts in Holistic Health Education reflectscutting-edge understanding of theory and practice in healtheducation from a holistic perspective, embracing body, mind,spirit, and a non-local understanding of energy. One of themost important values of this paradigm applied to health is afocus on wellness. All courses aim to enable graduates to beleaders in integrating alternative and mainstream approaches,East and West thought approaches, science and spirit, andconcept and applications.Personal transformation is an essential component. Theprogram offers opportunities for students to enhance theirown health and well-being, for example, through workingwith movement, diet, and developing or solidifying aspiritual practice. The program also recognizes the potentialof the holistic health perspective to facilitate positivesocietal transformation. It seeks to provide an educationalexperience that enables representatives of this perspectiveto clearly articulate their position to others. Graduates canalso participate in, and contribute meaningfully to, the multifacetedprocess of transformative health education.The program provides the concepts, applications, andpractice necessary so that students can develop themselvespersonally and professionally to meet their own aspirationsto work as teachers, researchers, writers in holistic health,consultants, and professionals who start their own businessesand healing centers, develop programs, or become healthcoaches, to name a few.Optional specializations include holistic nutrition; health, consciousness,and spirituality; and somatic education.130 SCHOOL OF HOLISTIC STUDIESJOHN F. KENNEDY UNIVERSITY