New research shows how building/rebuilding a sense of belonging is a critical task in leading change. Change disrupts belonging. Leaders of change must override the old order & help build a fresh sense of belonging to a new/bigger whole blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview… By Deborah Rowland

“Prescribing food is not something I wanted to do as a health-care worker,” says Andrew Boozary MD. While it’s great that initiatives like FoodShare exist, what's really needed is a basic income, say #TemertyMed experts Toronto Star bit.ly/3xafvLl

This week, we're bringing together health care and community leaders from the #NourishAnchorCohort to Montréal to talk about food security. Here are some photos of the cocktail last night with Mohawk seedsaver, artist, and knowledge keeper Stephen McComber.

Yesterday, the #NourishAnchorCohort visited Jardins Carya, an organic farm in Senneville, QC. Their motivation? Growing good food to feed communities, including in public institutions like hospitals and local food security organizations.

Really excited about this conversation...it's something I've been thinking about for a while. Let's put the hospitality BACK into hospital meals!!!

Menu no.2 for OxfordFoodSymp Just What the Doctor Ordered: Revolutionary Hospital Trays by chef, activist & author, Joshna Maharaj. #OxfordFood22 #PortableFood

This is the environmental cost of the food we eat buff.ly/3HRRLCs

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Systems thinking enables us to create models (often wrong, sometimes useful) to represent reality. Its power is in providing a shared understanding so people can influence positive change across a system. Principles of systems thinking for medium.com/@DiaAzul/how-t…

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Fascinating but not surprising: "For every £1 put into '#upstream' NHS services in places with historically poor funding, including primary care settings & wider community treatment, there is a return of up to £14 to area’s Gross Value Added (GVA) output." newstatesman.com/spotlight/econ…

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.Vancouver Coastal Health's Planetary Health Menu Pilot demonstrates the tremendous impact #healthcare can have when leaders work together. Hospital food CAN and SHOULD be delicious, nutritious, and good for the planet! 🌍 #climateleadership #climateaction #foodsolutions

“Social admissions” to hospital are not personal failures but policy ones | CMAJ. A challenge to our medical/political leaders & public service from ⁦Catherine Varner⁩ ⁦CMAJ⁩ ⁦SREMI⁩ ⁦Andrew Boozary MD⁩ ⁦Andreas Laupacis⁩ cmaj.ca/content/196/17…

Making hospital food healing (and delicious). Vancouver hospital brought in a top chef to overhaul the meals one patient described as “anonymous mush.” Q+A w/ Ned Bell Annie Lalande by Matt Galloway (scroll to 47 minutes) cbc.ca/listen/live-ra… via @cbcnews Nourish

Yes, bad, really. nytimes.com/2024/05/06/wel…. by Alice Callahan More on this later today

Join Nourish, Jared Williams, and Fiona Devereaux on June 27 for a webinar on the timely findings from an #Indigenousfoodways in #healthcare field scan. 🍓Register today! nourishleadership.ca/blog/2024/6/4/…

Curious about the potential for #foodprescribing at scale as a health strategy that can contribute to #planetaryhealth and preventative care? Join Nourish and Joshna Maharaj on June 26 for a webinar to present the key findings from the recent field scan. nourishleadership.ca/blog/2024/6/4/…