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Nashua, NH, May 22, 2023 – How do you help someone heal from a traumatic experience albeit physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual abuse?  Well-Being and Equity (WE) in the World, a diverse team of well-being and equity architects, presents solutions to advance transgenerational well-being by exploring Native American practices to break the cycle of trauma.

Did you know . . .

• “Seventy percent of adults (or 223.4 million people) in the U.S. have experienced some type of traumatic event at least once in their lives.” (National Council For Behavioral Health)

• “Nearly 2,000 people a day (800,000 per year) die by suicide – 90 percent related to mental disorders.” (Source:  Clubhouse International)

• “Post traumatic stress disorder affects 7.7 million adults or 3.6 percent of the population.”  (Source: NIMH: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.)

“When trauma is experienced from generation to generation, both in groups that have been historically oppressed and in families that have experienced trauma over generations, we encode this trauma in genes, culture and environment.  If we don’t invest in healing ourselves, trauma both hampers our capacity for resilience and creates the conditions where we pass on that trauma to future generations,”  says Somava Saha, president and chief executive officer, Well-Being and Equity (WE) in the World.

Somatic Archaeology© – An Innovative Program to Advance Transgenerational Well-Being

To help individuals break the cycle of trauma, WE in the World’s partner organization Freedom Lodge, which is led by Executive Director Dr. Ruby Gibson, has developed an innovative program called Somatic Archaeology© to resolve underlying issues pertaining to trauma. 

Somatic Archaeology© centers on”unearthing in the human body those remains and artifacts of our familial, ancestral, and spiritual lineage in order to uncover our myths and remember our stories for personal and planetary evolution.” (Source: Freedom Lodge and The Black Hills Historical Trauma and Research & Recovery Center). 

There are five steps in Somatic Archaeology© – 1) I Notice, 2) I Sense, 3) I Feel, 4) I Interpret and 5) I Reconcile.  Somatic Archaeology© has been used primarily and successfully in Native American communities. By helping individuals heal, reclaim their cultural identity, break the cycle of trauma and addiction, and create post-traumatic resilience and growth, Somatic Archaeology© has helped create Native Wellness across the U.S. and Canada.

Freedom Lodge has developed a novel program called the Historical Trauma Master Class HTMC™, which is based on Somatic Archaeology©principles.  Freedom Lodge works to resolve underlying issues relating to generational trauma in Native Americans in the U.S. and First Nations People in Canada.

To date, Freedom Lodge has trained approximately 250 Tribal Members as therapists in the last seven years.  The program has helped to reduce anxiety, addiction, historical grief and amensia, as well as lessen the legacy of violence, sexual assault and suicide.

“That is why the work of groups such as Freedom Lodge, who are bringing forward the best of Native American practices to create mechanisms for, identifying, predicting, and healing generational trauma is so important,” says Somava Saha, president and chief executive officer, Well-Being and Equity (WE) in the World.

WE in the World and its partner organization are leading the way to break the cycle of trauma and to advance transgenerational well-being and equity for all. Together, we can bring about real change.

Visit WE in the World to learn more about the organization.

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About WE in the World:

Well-Being and Equity (WE) in the World is a diverse team of well-being and equity architects who advance intergenerational well-being and equity on a foundation of racial and economic justice. WE also serves as the trellis/support infrastructure for the Well Being In the Nation Network. 

WE in the World invests in relationships and systems change to create a world where everyone can participate, prosper and reach their full potential.  We believe equity, belonging, and civic muscle are a path to mutual abundance for everyone. 

Freedom Lodge

Freedom Lodge and The Black Hills Historical Trauma Research & Recovery Center provide online Historical Trauma Recovery counseling for adults, families and youth. The Freedom Lodge Clinic provides Somatic Archaeology© and Generational Brainspotting™ sessions on a weekly basis at our offices in Rapid City, SD.

The confidential and personalized counseling by Historical Trauma Recovery Professionals is a dynamic opportunity that provides immediate relief for those in recovery from boarding school legacies, for Veterans and War Survivors, for depression, anxiety, anger, grief, emotional distress, addiction, chronic pain and spiritual disorientation.

Our practice of reconciliation of traumatic events allows clients to find hope, healing and courage to address difficult issues in their lives. All counseling services are confidential and provided free of charge to Tribal Members.

The Design and Branding Company (DBC) is a creative branding agency  headquartered in the heart of New York City’s Financial District.  From its humble beginnings in the Prime Minister (a.k.a. Chief Executive Officer) Carlos Williams’ home in August in 2014 to the present, DBC has grown to be one of the country’s sought after design and brand marketing agency partnering with clients such as American Express, Spotify, Bank of America, Google, Ms. Foundation for Women, National Urban League, just to name a few companies.

So, what makes DBC unique?  Its people, quite frankly.  Unlike other creative agencies, DBC is intentionally built to be a team reflective of society. By putting diversity equity and inclusion first, DBC brings together creatives of varied backgrounds – different cultures, upbringings, and educational backgrounds provide clients with diversity in thought and in experience.  The marketing agency’s real world outlook plays an integral role in creating one-of-a-kind brand marketing campaigns to help clients be distinct and in their respective industries and connect more directly with their target audiences. 

In addition, DBC creates signature visual identities and branding campaigns for clients, based on solid data to solve complex communication challenges, help clients grow and create a tighter emotional connection with its target audiences. 

DBC employs a Design Thinking Toolkit and utilizes the agile marketing methodology.  The Design Thinking Toolkit includes five phases – “Discover,” “Claim,” “Create,” “Implement,” and “Engage,” guiding the deliverables to be shared with key stakeholders.  This approach proves invaluable for creating presentation templates, signage (indoor and outdoor) and data visualization.

The marketing agency’s branding capabilities include brand portfolio strategy, brand awareness, brand CI/CD, crafting visual identities, brand naming, brand positioning and differentiation, integrated brand communications management, brand touchpoints and brand reputation guide.

This creative agency prides itself on becoming an integral tool of the client’s marketing toolkit.  One successful partnership is with Bank of America as a preferred supplier in their Breakthrough Lab™ Accelerator.  Through this program, DBC mentors rising entrepreneurs in the banking and fintech industry, and helps them get off to a great start with a  unique visual brand identity.

DBC has diversity certifications – Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) in New York City and New York State and nationally through the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) and the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) under the New York State Unified Certification Program.

For more information about the New York City design and brand marketing agency, visit studiodbc.com.

New York, NY February 27, 2023 – Patrick Cupid, an emerging, self-made contemporary fashion designer, unveils “Letting Go,” his ninth collection for the Fall – Winter 2023 collection.   “Letting Go” celebrates the freedom of self-release from social conformity and embracing the simple joys of life through personal aesthetics.

The collection forgoes trends for a more classic approach in a focused manner that reflects the individual. Exploring the autumn of self-discovery by shedding the concepts that aren’t representative of the self while expressing a style that begins to define who you are.  The collection will debut in Paris March 5, 2023.  

“Letting Go” collection highlights the colors Midnight Blue to reminisce the wildness of New York’s nightlife.  The colors Dalila, Electrified Orange, and Cream demonstrate a floating symphony and elegant wave of colors.  These colors with floral prints will provide a bold look for the fall and winter.

The Fall – Winter 2023 Collection will integrate designs containing long flowy dresses with seductive cuts in silk material. This collection will also incorporate textured wool, that will top the look off. These designs are hand-crafted providing a chic look. To allow for a nostalgic feel.

“True style is innate and not fabricated. It is a defining characteristic that speaks in a quiet voice not related to trends but to the individual,” says Fashion Designer Patrick Cupid.

The following high-end boutique stores will carry his luxury designs: CityGirl Atelier (San Francisco, CA), Felt (Chicago, IL), EJ On Thames (Newport, Rhode Island), Sandy Glam Boutique (Rhode Island), De-Essentia (Charlotte, N. C.), Shop Boutique (South Carolina), Affaire Estrangers (Paris, France), Wolf And Badger (London, Britain).

For more information about Patrick Cupid, please visit www.patrickcupid.com, email info@patrickcupid.com and (212) 748-7302.

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About Fashion Designer Patrick Cupid:

Patrick Cupid is an emerging, self-made contemporary designer fashion brand that plays the formality of elegance against the ease of elevated sportswear, enveloping a cosmopolitan instinct. The first collection, “All in Jest,” started a conversation around independent style without social restrictions in Fall 2019. 

The brand tells a story of independence and evolving culture through clothing seamlessly translating from professional to social. Each collection features a custom print designed by Patrick Cupid himself, emphasizing the seasons’ concept’s philosophy.

Partnership Includes Three Strategic Pillars that Target Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases with Traces to Infancy

NORWALK, Conn., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Infinant Health and the Connected World Without Disease Accelerator (CWWDA) announce today that they are partnering to create and enact a novel model of human health rooted in prevention at birth with the potential for impacts over a lifetime. Together, this partnership will demonstrate the transformative power of promoting health beginning at birth and is radically different from the prevailing model of “disease care” that dominates much of the world’s healthcare systems today. This powerful partnership will undertake a global effort that will initially focus on promoting a healthy start at birth to reduce substantially, if not eliminate, a host of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases with either onset in or origins traceable to infancy.

Over the past half-century, societal modernization has been accompanied not only by a parallel rise in lifespan but also a life beset by chronic and, in most cases, inflammatory disease, including during childhood. The alliance between Infinant Health and the CWWDA will produce an accelerated vision of a world without chronic disease. Today, rates of autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases are steadily rising worldwide, including obesity, type 1 and 2 diabetes, food allergy, allergic skin disease – eczema, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, and neurologic impairment. This trend leads us to a world where we all live potentially longer but unhealthier lives. Science has demonstrated that immune system priming is a crucial determinant in establishing a healthy life-course trajectory, beginning at birth, and foundationally established during early childhood to create the health path for each human being. According to Kaile Zagger, CEO of Infinant Health, the alliance’s goal is to “set children on a strong course by building immune systems primed for lifelong health, and CWWDA is the optimal partner to accelerate this path forward.”

Ben Wiegand, CEO of CWWDA, continued “this partnership will combine the unique live bacterial, groundbreaking products of Infinant Health for the newborn and infant with the global vision and model the CWWDA alliance champions, to promote systems of ‘health care,’ not ’disease care.’ “

The strategic partnership between Infinant Health and CWWDA will have three dedicated pillars.

First, through targeted clinical trials globally, the partnership will further demonstrate the transformative
benefits of Infinant Health’s live bacterial product for immune programming, B. infantis EVC001. Aided by
leading technologies in metagenomics and bioinformatics, these studies will demonstrate the power to
reshape the newborn gut microbiome with consequent effects on gut inflammation, immune system
priming, and improved overall health complemented by disease avoidance.

Second, through prospectively defined health economic studies, the pair will partner with national
healthcare systems worldwide to document significant short and long-term clinical efficacy and economic
benefits through disease avoidance. There is compelling evidence that has demonstrated the considerable health-economic cost savings of preventing disease or getting children out of the NICU faster. The entities will work together to show this globally to benefit national healthcare systems and providers.

Third, the organizations will combine efforts to launch a campaign to raise awareness and develop a call to action around infant and early childhood health and the criticality of preventative care. Through united
efforts, Infinant Health and CWWDA will work with key regulatory bodies, policymakers, and healthcare
stakeholders to innovate new standards of care around the world for the treatment of newborn infants and children to produce a healthier next generation.

“The partnership between Infinant Health and CWWDA is uniquely positioned to both prove the concept
and then move to scale with global partners the vision to achieve measurable disease prevention while securing a healthy start at birth for children everywhere as a right and privilege,” said Karl Sylvester, Global Medical Advisor to Infinant Health. “Working together to achieve a healthier humanity globally is the uniting vision catalyzing this partnership.”

Eric Luellen, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer of Infinant Health, emphasized “the 54 countries in the
Commonwealth report a disease burden of approximately 400 million cases of non-communicable diseases (NCD) and chronic inflammation is the root of most of them. With the partnership between Infinant Health and the CWWDA, we have the historic opportunity to prevent most of them within a generation, transforming the future of human health, saving hundreds of millions of lives and billions of dollars.”

ABOUT CWWDA

The Connected World Without Disease Accelerator’s focus is to catalyze and accelerate a transformation of the dominant paradigm in health care from a “diagnose and treat” to one of “predict and pre-empt”, leading to individuals living longer, healthier lives. The CWWDA’s efforts will be focused across development of additional clinical validation of earlier therapeutic interventions, promoting the development of a learning health care system to enable the piloting of new technical and business model innovations, and attracting investment of capital, both financial and leading scientific, clinical, regulatory, and commercial talent into this field to help create this new health care system paradigm. These efforts will focus on both the developed and developing worlds.

ABOUT INFINANT HEALTH

Infinant Health (“Infinant”), previously known as Evolve Biosystems, is a privately held biotechnology company committed to changing the trajectory of human health, one baby at a time. Infinant Health is working towards building a product portfolio of foods for special dietary use, drug candidates, and digital health medical devices that aim to optimize infant immunity, metabolism, and cognition. Additional products in the innovation pipeline include digital applications and companion diagnostics to deliver a personalized experience, enable a precision medicine approach, and help demonstrate the safety and efficacy of Infinant Health’s products. Learn more about Infinant at www.infinanthealth.com.

Hebron, CT December 15, 2021– Paralympian curler, motivational speaker, and author Steve Emt is one of five members representing Team USA at the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing, China from March 3 to March 14, 2022. He is the only Paralympian to also compete at the 2018 Paralympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. 

Paralympian Wheelchair Curler

Steve Emt is a seven-time National Champion.  He has competed in six World Championships and one Paralympics — the 2018 PyeongChang Paralympic Games. Vice skip Emt is one of five players chosen from the eight-member squad and is the only Paralympian on the team.

As a member of Team USA in the World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship held in April of 2021, Steve Emt has helped Team USA earn the program’s first-ever Gold Medal and thus securing a spot in the 2022 Paralympic Games.  

Motivational Speaker and Author

In addition to his pursuits as an athlete, Steve Emt is a motivational speaker and author. Known as the Decision Catalyst Speaker, Emt has spoken at schools and events across America. 

He is the author of the book You D.E.C.I.D.E., a memoir and self-help book with the same six-step action plan he has used himself to make big changes in his life.  Steve Emt uses his D.E.C.I.D.E. Action Plan, as well as his own experience with adversity to motivate and empower others. 

His book, YOU D.E.C.I.D.E., is available on Amazon.

Life Before the Accident

Born and raised in Hebron, CT, Steve Emt has been a three-sport star athlete in high school, earning several honors in soccer and basketball. After high school, Steve Emt attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he has played soccer and basketball. He later transferred to the University of Connecticut where he played basketball for legendary coach Jim Calhoun while attending the University of Connecticut. 

In 1995, a drunk driving accident left Steve Emt paralyzed from the waist down. Nine months later, Emt has returned to work/ Emt has earned his teaching degree and he has taught middle school math for twenty years while coaching for the same basketball team he once played on. 

In 2013, Steve Emit fell in love with curling. This passion would eventually lead him to become a Paralympian at the 2018 Paralympic Games in PyeongChang.

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Gateway+, an education technology start-up, announced its strategic partnership with Team Genius today, an online digital transformation company. The partnership will allow the start-ups to harness the power of technology to deliver expert university and test preparation content in a way that has never been seen before.

With support and guidance from Team Genius, Gateway+ is built as a robust educational platform that integrates the most up-to-date admissions and tests preparation content with features to maximize engagement from learners. The platform boasts hundreds of video lessons with over 2,200 minutes of learning, with tailored content to five major higher education destinations: the UK, USA, Australia, Canada and Singapore. Apart from video lessons, the platform also features community spaces where learners can interact, and checkpoints and assessments strategically placed so students can track their progress.

According to the founder of Gateway+, Clarice Chan, “Gateway+ was founded with a vision to level the playing field regarding students’ journeys to higher education. We aim to empower students across the globe to overcome the asymmetry in access to information. From choosing the best universities for their academic goals to providing comprehensive test preparation support, students will be empowered to tackle every part of the university admissions process.”

By partnering, Team Genius and Gateway+ can offer scalable solutions for delivering quality educational content to learners worldwide.

“This strategic partnership is a step towards creating an efficient, engaging, learning experience for Gateway+ customers. Team Genius is excited to be on this journey with Gateway+ as our shared values and mission create powerful synergy,” said Yasaf Burshan, the owner and CEO of Team Genius. “This collaboration provides Gateway+ with the competitive edge they need to be the leaders in their niche,” Yasaf added.

About Gateway+

Gateway+ is a content streaming platform for all your higher education needs. Its extensive content and proven pedagogy help students make informed decisions as they prepare for higher education. The platform is friendly on all devices and provides quality content that students can access anytime, anywhere.

About Team Genius

Team Genius, founded by Yasaf Burshan, is a leading digital technologies partner for creators in the new world committed to utilizing the power of technology to transform businesses. The next-generation solutions by Team Genius have helped companies across industries to scale their business and deliver a seamless experience to their customers. It is a certified Thinkific expert, certified Zapier expert and technology partner with other major brands such as Microsoft and Monday.com. The company’s mission is to empower the creators. Team Genius is recognized as the one-stop shop for digital services, providing exceptional work.

Media Contact – Gateway+:

marcom@gateway-plus.com

Media Contact – Team Genius:

hq@team-genius.com