Since 1984, Don has published 455 newsletters and 14 books, his latest being Aging Beyond Belief: 69 Tips For REAL Wellness.
REAL wellness is a lifestyle/mindset based on reason, exuberance and liberty - for enhanced quality of life.
Don is a mellow, sensitive, kind, compassionate fellow, but he loves to stir up excitement. He demonstrates the relevance of a life-enhancing mindset to three topics everyone cares about but most hesitate to address in polite society, namely, politics, sex and religion.
Special Resources
A Youtube interview (Date: 7/24/84)
Over 1000 essays on 16 different skill area topics at SeekWellness archives.
Don's trademark is worksite wellness presentations that interest and engage everybody and change perspectives, philosophies and priorities.
Consultations devoted to evidence-based ways to reduce costs while increasing productivity.
Lectures that are entertaining, informative and provocative that motivate and enable employees to sustain good intentions.
Workshops that lead to new insights about neglected skill areas. These include the nature of and ways to increase happiness, manage aging, find added meaning and purpose, enhance relationships and engage in critical thinking, as well as becoming and staying fit over time.
Don's Three Innovative Concepts
- The icantdoit model - describes why so many do not and, without guidance and support, cannot adopt or sustain healthy lifestyles.
- DBRU equivalents - the ultimate nutrient needed abundantly - daily.
- REAL wellness - quality of life as the true measure of well-being and success - the foundations being reason, exuberance and liberty.
Don is entertaining, groundbreaking, outrageous and delightful. His lectures inform, motivate, entertain and change lifestyles! His varied opening act costumes range from an anatomically correct bodysuit to a Professor Wellness outfit to a burka! Really. The latter comes off after Don reaches the podium, whereupon he urges everyone to cast off burkas-or anything else that might be inhibiting you from evolving into the wellest, most effective and fulfilled person you can become. It's a great show - and no one knows more about the wellness concept.
Books
- The Book of Wellness: A Secular Approach To Meaning and Purpose (Prometheus)
- Aging Beyond Belief: 69 Tips for REAL Wellness (Whole Person Books)
- High Level Wellness: An Alternative to Doctors, Drugs & Disease (Rodale, Bantam & Ten Speed)
- History & Future Of Wellness (Kendall Hunt)
- 14 Days To Wellness (New World Library)
- Author's Guide Journals in the Health Field
- Planning for Wellness: Guidebook (Haworth)
- Wellness: Body, Mind & Spirit (Kendall-Hunt)
- Die Healthy: Sixteen Steps to Wellness
- Live More of Your Life the Wellness Way
Lecture Topics
- Reason, Exuberance and Liberty - Keys To REAL Quality Of Life Habits
- Empowering An Aging Workforce
- How To Die Healthy - When The Time Comes
- How And Why To Use Positive Incentives
- Aging Is Unavoidable; Getting Old Prematurely Is A (Poor) Choice
- Why To Put Off Retirement - Forever
- Payoffs Of Eccentricity And lifestyle Artistry
- No One Lives Forever But It's Worth A Try!
- Self-Management Skills for Success in Business
- Humor and Play AS Part Of A Wonderful Life
- 14 Steps to Wellness
- Design Low Stress/High Energy Schools and Communities
- 10 Most Important Things You Can Do To Promote Chances For A Good Life
Education
B.A., Sociology, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 1963
M.S., Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC. 1965
Stanford Grad School Of Bus, SEP, Stanford, CA 1973
Ph.D., Public Policy, The Union Institute, Cincinnati, OH 1977Honors and Awards
- Healthy America Fitness Leaders Award
- Wrote/narrated video Life In The Stress Lane, voted best educational video by National Association of TV Program Executives
- Named to All-American Triathlon Team annually from 1993 to 2006
- Five national and two world (Montreal and Hobart) triathlon and duathlon championships
Donald B. Ardell | Ardell Wellness Report | 288 Beach Drive NE, 11C | St. Petersburg | FL | 33701
