Our Story
TWC began with a series of reflective conversations among the founders, who identified persistent gaps within and across their respective disciplines, including uneven access, quality of care, and cultural resonance. These insights shaped TWC’s collaborative approach.
TWC is unique because of our interdisciplinary framework, ethnocultural focus and our strengths approach to the social determinants of health. Rather than using the typical labeling of social and environmental issues as “determinants,” we frame them as “influencers” which means they do influence but are not fixed or fated determinants of our health. We explore these factors through The 7 Disciplines of Wellness, based on the construct developed by Allen Callahan, Ph.D., as a model for sustainable living.
Our target population can be delineated by zip codes, where study after study has shown that Black and Brown communities experience disparate care and health care outcomes, regardless of education or income level.
The foundation of the nonprofit is its interdisciplinary membership, tasked with providing a think tank that researches and identifies asset-based best practices and trends for improving the wellbeing, advocacy, and agency for our target communities, which includes ethnocultural and historical interventions.
The members organize and present, along with guest speakers, our signature ReImagining Health and Wellness™ Forums & Conferences on critical topics, using a community-based participatory design, to stimulate conversation and encourage multigenerational action for individuals, their families, and the community. Both the membership and the forums are broadly integrative in nature. The members are professionals, artists, advocates, researchers, community service workers, farmers, healers, and educators.
The forums include allopathic, complementary, and traditional healing modalities, as well as behavioral, social, and emotional learning solutions. In addition to the forums, TWC offers workshops, consultations, and training for health care service organizations, provider groups, and employers in any sector.
Our Grounding Paradigm
Seven Disciplines of Wellbeing
The Seven Disciplines are seven suites of theory and practice for thinking through and working through our common challenges. Like the systems of the body, the Seven Disciplines cannot be understood in isolation from one another: they are interrelated, inform each other, and have mutual, complex impacts on each other. Taken together, these Disciplines suggest how we may seek and find what is good for each of us and for all of us.
Industry is the discipline of living a life worth living by doing work worth doing, making what we use, using what we make, doing the right things, doing those things right, and offering our own products and services in freedom and with justice.
