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What is the Circle of Life?

Whether your focus is career change, life focus, health improvement, stress mastery, spiritual practice, better relationships, or making any life changes, the powerful "Circle" tools and processes will help you design and implement a successful step by step action plan to fulfill your intentions and goals!

You will learn how to continue this life-long continuous improvement process long after your initial exposure to the process; and you will be able to share this with your Circle of family and friends!

What people are saying about the circle of life process

Coaching and group support have been shown to be the best tools to enhance outcomes in diverse populations. The Circle of Life is more comprehensive and holistic than most other coaching and support programs. Our feedback is that people feel it is more unique and inspiring – creating easier access to behavioral change, achieved goals, and positive outcomes. Rebecca McLean & Dr. Roger Janke, Developers of the Circle of Life process.

• "The 'Circle' is so effective because inherent in the process is support for envisioning and achieving goals. I have witnessed group members make monumental changes in their lives that they had previously thought impossible." Wellness Coordinator
• "We are all looking for transformation... (the circle of life process) has shown us the way one step, one goal, one action step at a time." Pastor
• "I learned how important accountability to ourselves is in being responsible for our own behaviors." Participant, Parish Coordinator
• "I learned to travel long distances by taking small steps." Episcopal Priest

Using the circle of life process as a tool to improve health

Healthy People 2010, the US Department of Health and Human Services set of health goals for the nation for the first decade of this century, has two primary objectives:

• Enhance life expectancy and quality of life
• Eliminate health disparities, across diverse population

Healthy People 2010 challenges all of us – professionals, communities, and individuals, to take specific steps to ensure, that good health and long life are enjoyed by all. We can personally awaken the naturally occurring medicine within ourselves to maximize good health, and eliminate wasted medical expenses. We can also make empowering steps to ensure organizational effectiveness, harmony and accountability.

Many of the focus areas of Healthy People 2010, such as heart disease and stroke, diabetes, educational and community based programs, and injury and violence prevention can be addressed by the educational and self-management methodology (intervention) of the Circle of Life. The Circle of Life and its powerful tool box of methods and processes encourages self-reliance in managing health, healing, chronic health challenges, and can help prevent disease and maximize performance and productivity through lifestyle choices, behavioral changes, and understanding existing health services.

These empowerment tools have been carefully refined for an array of clients including hospitals and hospital networks, educational institution, faith communities, and community agencies. We believe that everyone has the capacity to improve their health, complement their medical treatment and reduce their medical costs.

The Circle of Life (PHASES – Personal Health Assessment and Self Energizing System) Program is a health and lifestyle enhancement process for personal breakthrough and self-improvement that can be implemented in a group setting or in a one-to one context. The power of the "Circle" process is that it can assist any person, of any age, with any desired outcome. The "Circle" process allows the resident wisdom and power that is within all people to emerge. The Circle of Life inventories personal assets and fosters health enhancement in the whole Circle of one's life with focus on 12 areas:

• Nutrition and diet
• Exercise and Fitness
• Stress Mastery
• Health Care and Self-Care
• Relationship and Family
• Work and Career
• Financial Health
• Creativity, Play and Humor
• Environment and Nature
• Emotions, Attitudes and Self Esteem
• Life Purpose, Service, and contribution
• Spirituality and Intuition

Medicine and sociology have demonstrated that social interaction has a powerful positive effect. The Circle of Life program has been developed to purposefully maximize group interaction and to be portable, easy to transfer and proliferate. Our model empowers people, minimizes implementation costs, and reduces the dependence on outside consultants.

Article adapted from the work of Rebecca McLean & Roger Jahnke