Vive Academy, Inc.
Nurturing Intellect, Intuition, & Imagination
Our Services
Cultivating diverse, dynamic, and fertile spaces to ‘Practice the Basics’ and awaken Awe and Wonder.
What Is Vive Academy?
Vive Academy, Inc. 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.
We believe “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 your imagination to “be fully alive” to 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© our real lives to cultivate material intelligence and practical skills. By practicing the basics in community, we promote unity, solidarity, goodness, harmony and growth rooted in presence.
Vive Academy’s Mission Statement
Our Mission:
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 renewed, and the whole person is redeemed and transformed. Our 'Practice The Basics' curriculum fosters individuality rooted in community.
Our Purpose:
We work to cultivate the place (the good soil) since personal relationships are absolutely necessary to any hope of becoming the people we are designed to be. Our living connections are the channels through which we give and receive love, encouragement, inspiration, nourishment and blessing. Thus, allowing life to flow, fly, crawl, sing, vibrate, shimmer, dance, and constantly move within, around, and through us.
Our Belief:
Only through collective being, living, working, worshipping, and playing can we ignite Awe and Wonder, honor the sanctity of life, and experience the fullness of Beauty. Our health, wholeness, and holiness are nurtured in the process, not merely in the outcomes. We ‘Practice the Basics’ to become our best selves through our relationships and our interactions with the people, places, and things we encounter.
Experience:
We guide our members to actively participate in hands-on learning.
Strength:
Healthy communities are built from healthy individuals. At Vive Academy, we cultivate places for gathering and strengthening our connections.
Hope:
Our commitment is to pursue ‘whatever things are true, whatever grand, whatever right, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever of good repute- if there be any virtue and be any praise” to 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 not only shaped by our emotions, thoughts, passions, desires, actions, but the affections and wisdom of our spirits, hearts, minds, bodies, and relationships.