Encouraging Application of the Okanagan Charter in BC for Healthy Minds and Campuses
This content discusses the Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses initiative in British Columbia, focusing on promoting mental well-being, healthier relationships with substances, and enhancing campus environments. It explores the importance of generating and exchanging knowledge, practicing dialogue, and assessing impact in a collaborative and inclusive manner.
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Encouraging application of the Okanagan Charter in BC: Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses International Health Promoting Campuses Symposium May 12, 2022 Tim Dyck & Mahboubeh Asgari HM|HC Co-Leads
HM|HC in short What? o o A learning community (since 2004) 25 BC post-secondary institutions E-newsletter About? promoting mental well-being and healthier relationships with substances Joint Projects Website Means? equipping to navigate and thrive together enhancing campus environments and members resilience maximizing benefits and minimizing harms from use of drugs o o Summits, Regional Forums Talks, Info Sessions
HM|HC on generating and exchanging knowledge Health knowledge (literacy) is: It s aptly applied in joint endeavour: far more than awareness of content, including formal research findings embracing diversity, ensuring inclusion, seeking equity valuing community, sharing power, committing to collaboration upholding personal agency and social responsibility eroding stigma by recognizing all of us rather than we and them o o about acquiring competencies through experiential learning, active inquiry, development of moral reasoning o o developed through multi-directional interchange, reciprocal investigation
HM|HC on practicing dialogue Creating the container What s dialogue? o A way of being in the world o A unique form of conversation Listening Openness Practicing dialogue Empathy Asking questions
HM|HC on practicing dialogue Why dialogue? Build connectedness Increase understanding Increase respect and appreciation Act together
HM|HC on assessing impact Responding to people (versus following a formula): Considerations: How to do justice to interplay of influences, agents assumptions, values, beliefs, motives ? o Reasons rather than causes Participant value instead of external objective Do metrics & method capture ends first confirmed and then attested by the subjects themselves? o Ongoing possibilities in contrast to settled results Don t we really need continued conversation on progress on and potential for desired capacity? o
Some HM|HC questions for reflection 1. How might health promotion principles as cited in the Okanagan Charter be more consistently applied in our knowledge generation and exchange efforts in post-secondary settings? 2. How might we better promote and practice dialogue as a crucial component in meaningful, healthy culture change in our campus contexts? 3. What are our biggest challenges and the most promising ways forward in applying a responsive approach to evaluation of our efforts to build capacity?
Contact tdyck@uvic.ca mahboubeh.asgari@cmha.bc.ca www.healthycampuses.ca
