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If you are ready to become a member of HumanaNatura, our Member Sign-Up Form is located at the bottom of this page.
Membership in HumanaNatura’s global practitioner-advocate network is free, confidential, and without cost or obligation. Membership in HumanaNatura is important too, for us and for you.
Think of it this way: as we begin to use modern health science to explore our natural fitness and well-being, it is frequently on our own or in a small group. Often, this exploration comes with a strong sense of individualism and even a contrarian outlook on the world. Though perhaps important initially to motivate discovery and change, this early outlook on health-centered life is almost never optimal for achieving our potential for progressive health, self-understanding, and quality of life over time.
Why? Because the goal of increasing personal health and well-being quickly involves others and invokes our natural need for enabling cooperation and support – first from our social networks and communities, and eventually from our global society and all people. As we discuss in our natural health programs, offering and receiving social support and ensuring ongoing quality of life promotion around us are key features of our natural health and essential foundations of progressive or adaptive human life.
These important environmental aspects of our natural well-being are often overlooked when we first begin the work of health and quality of life promotion, but prove crucial to our lifelong development for two critical reasons: 1) they are necessary to cultivate and facilitate our individual health and quality of life expectations and goals, and 2) they ensure that our personal attention and long-term health promotion efforts are primarily directed beyond, rather than toward, ourselves.
Through modern health science, we know that our individual health, happiness, and quality of life all have strong social or extra-personal dimensions. Progressive health-centered life naturally and circularly requires ongoing support from our social groups and society generally, and in turn, a strong social orientation and reciprocating and fulfilling social contributions from us individually. Both are requirements for progressive natural health and suggest a predominant personal orientation and focus of effort directed beyond our individual circumstances and concerns.
Because of our need for healthy social integration, a strong community focus and active health advocacy is emphasized from the outset in the HumanaNatura system. As suggested, this is done not only to help us seek and cultivate important health-enabling conditions, but equally as an essential health and life enhancement strategy in itself – one that spans the third and fourth HumanaNatura techniques, Natural Living and Natural Communities.
With this essential self-naturalizing and health-liberating orientation in mind, HumanaNatura encourages you to make your health promotion efforts an increasingly community and socially-engaged endeavor. Perhaps the easiest way you can begin this important progression is by becoming part of HumanaNatura’s worldwide network of thoughtful, engaged, and supportive members, and then exploring opportunities for community-based action within our global health advocacy framework.
Membership in HumanaNatura can help you to place your personal health efforts in a larger and supportive set of relationships and ideas, and has many practical benefits that you can take advantage of to accelerate your health and quality of life efforts:
- Information – HumanaNatura members receive and can contribute to our online community newsletter, HumanaNatura NaturaLiving, which serves as our principal forum for information and idea-sharing within HumanaNatura. NaturaLiving includes motivating and informative notes and news from the community, summaries of emerging health research, and updates on changes and developments to our natural health programs and resources. Natural Living is free and published eight times yearly in harmony with the natural year.
- Input & Support – as a HumanaNatura member, you can help to shape and influence the development and direction of our worldwide health outreach and quality of life advocacy efforts, and receive assistance, advice, and support from other HumanaNatura members in return. HumanaNatura members have access to a special Member Services link to reach HumanaNatura’s coordinating staff for help with questions, issues, ideas, and advocacy opportunities. In addition, HumanaNatura members can view and post requests and messages exclusively with other members via our members-only Community Board, which is updated with each edition of NaturaLiving.
- Professional Opportunities – HumanaNatura members gain access to a number of important professional opportunities in the health promotion and community development fields. These include credentialing as a HumanaNatura Certified Health Practitioner, guided training and development as a community leader or health advocate via our Community Leaders Program, and business opportunities in health promotion and wellness center management through HumanaNatura’s Health Alliance Network. Information on these and other professional opportunities are included in the Community Board section of NaturaLiving.
- Social Networking – as a member of HumanaNatura, you gain online access to our worldwide network of health, nature, and human development-minded members. Whether your interest is information-sharing, support for your personal health efforts, new friendships or mentoring relationships, ideas for health advocacy campaigns, or health-centered community development, HumanaNatura’s global network can be a valuable personal and professional resource. In addition to exclusive member-to-member networking via our Community Board, HumanaNatura maintains a dedicated Facebook community page to allow real time social networking activities with members and others sharing a common interest in HumanaNatura and health-centered life.
- Advocacy & Outreach – HumanaNatura membership immediately makes you a part of our important and growing worldwide health science movement – encouraging greater health awareness, progressive health-centered life, more vital and sustainable communities, and new public policies that put human well-being and development first. Membership in HumanaNatura and promotion of our natural health system offers a direct means to drive action on the world’s most urgent social issues and quality of life opportunities, and to do so in the context of our worldwide advocacy efforts and global health network. As part of HumanaNatura, your voice and efforts can join with others to be heard and felt in government policy discussions, the media, and the lives of individuals and communities around the world.
For all these reasons, we hope you will become of part of HumanaNatura today, and look forward to having you as a member of our growing worldwide practitioner-advocate network.
To join HumanaNatura, simply complete and submit the membership form below. You’ll see our success page after submitting your membership request and then receive a personal note from us, introducing you to the community, once your request is processed.
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