Bastyr Community Initiative

In the fall of 2021, students, faculty and staff joined together to launch a four-part initiative designed to create platforms for meaningful engagement with each other, as well as individuals & organizations that can forward our shared mission and visions.

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Bastyr Community Initiative (BCI)

As part of the Bastyr Strategic Plan, we seek to display leadership in innovative ways. Bastyr has long been a leader in the field of natural health arts and sciences. There is an ongoing opportunity to be a community filled with unified, informed and proactive advocates of natural health and wellness. In September 2021, the university launched an initiative -- The Bastyr Community Initiative (BCI), which includes four aspects: 

  • Community Conversations 
  • Research Opportunities 
  • Advocacy Work 
  • Broader Community Engagement 

The Bastyr community wants to ask and answer the question: Where does Bastyr University best engage with and contribute to the broader world? 

Things that our Community considers together through the BCI

  • It is important for educational institutions to create fertile ground for sharing ideas, hearing other voices, and learning from others. Bastyr will create ongoing Community Conversations that bring experts from many sides of an issue, internal and external to our University…to discuss important crises our community and world are facing.  
  • Bastyr will be committed to conducting a unified approach to researching literature, engaging in original research, and bringing evidence-informed answers to the crises our world faces. 
  • Bastyr will bring forward researched, vetted points of view to those in positions of influence (locally, statewide, regionally, and nationally) – becoming passionate, informed advocates for natural health and wellness in all our disciplines. 
  • Bastyr will connect with local, national and international communities to share solutions we find in ways that improve the delivery of medicine, counseling, nutrition, and much more. 

Every Bastyr student, faculty, staff and alumnus is encouraged to consider how your own interests, talents, and expertise can contribute to this initiative which will move Bastyr into a new space that fully promotes what our health and wellness disciplines have to offer to some of the world’s greatest concerns and crises. We invite you to become a part of and to engage in this endeavor. Reach out to [email protected]  

Engage with BCI

Every Bastyr student, faculty, staff and alumnus is encouraged to consider how your own interests, talents, and expertise can contribute to this initiative which will move Bastyr into a new space that fully promotes what our health and wellness disciplines have to offer to some of the world’s greatest concerns and crises.

We invite you to become a part of and to engage in this endeavor. Reach out to [email protected]