Whole Health

Not your typical conference! Each session builds on the last, so plan to clear your calendar to dive in fully. You’ll spend most of your time in a track cohort guided by a facilitator and topic experts, in search of new connections and ideas. Art, music, great food, and joyful moments abound and weave themselves throughout the experience. Along the way, you’ll connect with other topic tracks because we believe that great things can happen when really different people convene in thoughtful ways. Learn more about See Change and the other topic tracks here.

A New Hope For Health Care: Prioritizing Prevention, Living Healthier, & Spending Wisely

The Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Vermont (OCIH) is convening employers, HR leaders, healthcare practitioners, investors, insurers, and policy experts to explore innovative ways to scale an effective, evidence-based whole-person approach to healthcare. The focus: advancing prevention, cost efficiency, and access to health and wellness.

Objectives

Our goals will be to:

• Foster Collaborative Relationships: Build cross-sector partnerships, opening doors to knowledge and skill sharing, funding opportunities, and innovative frameworks.
• Advance Innovation: Identify barriers to scale and actionable strategies for implementing whole health economic models inside companies and beyond.
• Explore Economic Implications: Assess cost savings, value-based reimbursement models, and policy shifts that can drive adoption of Whole Health.

Topic Guides & Experience Guides

Each track is supported by a curated group of topic guides—individuals with deep, hands-on experience and a unique connection to the subject at hand. Alongside them, experience guides shift your perspective, leading you through meaningful moments rooted in nature, movement, creativity, or conversation. Working closely with the track facilitator, both topic guides and experience guides help shape the direction of the conversations and ensure the labs stay grounded in real-world insight and a deep collaborative spirit.

Topic Focus

The U.S. healthcare system is at a pivotal moment. While it has long been characterized by high costs and fragmented care—especially as rates of chronic conditions rise—there is growing momentum to reimagine how we define and deliver health.

Too often, investments focus on treating disease rather than preventing it, driven by reimbursement models that reward volume over value. But a new vision is emerging—one that prioritizes long-term outcomes, supports whole-person care, and recognizes the power of self-care, positive lifestyle change, and non-pharmacologic treatment.

To drive real change in healthcare, we must redefine success by shifting incentives, adjusting reimbursement models, and recognizing the economic value of proactive, whole-person care. Employers, unlike the traditional healthcare system, have a direct incentive to maintain the health and wellness of their employees. Preventative, whole-person care is an incredibly valuable tool in achieving that goal. Scaling and adopting these approaches require interdisciplinary collaboration and meaningful partnerships between employers, health systems, policymakers, and insurers.

This track will convene a curated multi-stakeholder cohort for a truly unique experience that will explore working case studies from field leaders in HR, policy, economics, and medicine to unpack barriers to scale and adoption, uncover new solutions, and establish lasting partnerships.

Is This Track Right For You?

A Multi-Stakeholder Approach

Implementing new, meaningful whole-person healthcare care programs, in and outside of companies, requires collaboration across multiple sectors. In addition to field leading experts that will share case studies and stories of success and challenge, this track will deep dive with a cohort of 50 or less from:

• Employers Interested in Investing in Whole Health (HR, Chief People Officer and Organizational Development leaders, CEO’s, Founders, Executive Directors)
• Medical Experts & Practitioners (Integrative, Whole Health, and Conventional Medicine)
• Policy Leaders (Health system administrators, public health leaders, government, patient advocates)
• Consumer Health & Wellness / Medtech startups (Technology leaders with accessible tools for scaling whole health - apps & platforms, supplements, bio-tech)
• Financial Experts (Health economists, impact investors, private equity, philanthropists, insurance executives)

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