Vive Academy, Inc.
Nurturing Intellect, Intuition, & Imagination
Our Services
Cultivating diverse, dynamic, and fertile spaces to ‘Practice the Basics’ and nurture intellect, intuition, and imagination.
What Is Vive Academy?
Vive Academy, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit started in 2016 by Jason and DeeAnn Dean to address the root causes of chronic disease and sickness in youth and adults.
“Connection is Health”
We are here to reconnect you to the ways you are designed to receive and give the gifts of life by inviting you to Practice The Basics with us. We want you to “be fully alive” and experience your abundant and beautiful life in all its diversity, forms, and manifestations.
“The power of imagination is to see things whole, to see things clearly, to see things with sanctity, to see things with love.” -Wendell Berry
Practice The Basics
At Vive Academy, we encourage everyday practices and personal relationships rooted in a Living Loving Community to address the root causes of sickness and disease. Together, we Breathe, Listen, Ask, Look, Touch© REAL Life, and cultivate the material intelligence and practical skills needed to participate in healing. Practicing the Basics promotes harmony and growth in ourselves and our relationships.
Vive Academy’s Mission Statement
Mission Statement:
Vive Academy is dedicated to rekindling the imagination, sharpening the intuition, and expanding the intellect. We are a place of learning where the mind is cultivated, and the whole person is educated through real-life experiences and our 'Practice The Basics' curriculum, fostering a deep connection with oneself, others, and the world.
Purpose:
We believe that personal relationships are the bedrock of any transformative and sustainable practice. They are the channels through which we give and receive love, encouragement, inspiration, and connection, allowing life to flow, fly, crawl, sing, vibrate, shimmer, dance, and constantly move within, around, and through us.
Philosophy:
Only through collective being, living, working, and playing can we ignite Awe and Wonder, honor the sanctity of life, and experience life, truth, hope, joy, and love. Our health, wholeness, and holiness are nurtured in the process, not merely in the outcomes. We engage in these processes to become our best selves daily, through our relationships and our interactions with the people, places, and things we cherish.
Experience:
We guide our members to actively participate in learning.
Strength:
Healthy communities are built from healthy individuals. At Vive Academy, we cultivate spaces for gathering and strengthening our connections.
Hope:
Our commitment is to foster safe and loving environments that support health recovery, enhance relationships, and transform the habits, routines, and practices essential for both personal and communal flourishing.
Resources:
Recovering health is about rediscovering our true nature and living as we are meant to. While information alone does not transform, it is crucial for education. Health is shaped by our emotions, thoughts, passions, desires, actions, and the affections of our spirits, hearts, minds, bodies, and relationships.