Gain knowledge and skills to promote inclusive, multidimensional wellness, including strategies for enhancing emotional intelligence and cultural humility to minimize the effects of bias. You will engage in interactive learning to increase competence around social determinants of health, health equity, bias, and privilege to promote intentional multidimensional wellness approaches for individuals, groups, and communities.

This course is one of nine eLearning courses intentionally designed to support competency-building in the five domains of the NWI Wellness Promotion Competency Model. Specifically, this is the first of two courses that support the model's “Inclusive & Responsive Practices" domain. The model serves as the standard for the Certified Wellness Practitioner (CWP) certification. This course supports the following wellness promotion competencies:

• Practice self-awareness and self-regulation to minimize the effects of personal biases in working with diverse individuals and groups.
• Practice multicultural competence, recognizing the dynamics of oppression and privilege on an individual's lived experiences.
• Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for diverse individuals and groups, including but not limited to diversity in sex, age, culture, race, ethnicity, disabilities, body-size, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and gender identity.

See "Getting Started" below for the full list of learning objectives for this course.

This self-paced interactive eLearning course must be completed within four weeks of registering. Within the course, you’ll find knowledge checks or activities to enhance your learning as well as a variety of tools and resources you can apply in your work.

Time to complete the course varies by learner, but we suggest planning for a total of three to five hours to complete all the learning elements, including any application activities and self-reflections. You must complete the full online course and submit the course evaluation to earn your certificate indicating the number of continuing education credits earned.