Lehigh Valley Health Network, along with local leaders, is working with Blue Zones to Activate Bethlehem to make it a healthier place to live, work, grow up, and grow old.
What We Do
ACTIVATE
Our community-led initiatives are so effective because we create lasting impact by changing the environment in which people live, work, and play. Creating a healthier environment is the foundation to reducing healthcare claims and costs, increasing workforce productivity, and changing the culture of well-being in the community. Blue Zones Activate, begins the foundational work of improving food policy and built environment policies immediately.
FREE TOOLS
Blue Zones engages individual community members through online health and well-being assessments, the True Vitality® Test and True Happiness® Test, and an interactive Blue Zones® Life Challenge. All are available for free to all community members as part of the program. These customized online tools are designed to help raise individual awareness surrounding personal health and well-being, with the goal of increasing overall life expectancy.
MEET THE TEAM
The Blue Zones national team is comprised of a range of inspirational, innovative community transformation and well-being experts.
MEET THE DIRECTOR
Lauren Geldon is the Director of Blue Zones Activate, Bethlehem with nearly a decade of experience fostering relationships, advocating for individuals and family systems, and breaking molds with implementation of progressive programs tailored to meet the system’s needs. Lauren brings a creative lens, in combination with her passion for organization, and fostering positive change. Lauren comes with many years of experience working as a field instructor to students, educator, and mentor in both the social work field, and higher education system. Lauren brings forth a passion of identifying gaps in micro, mezzo, and macro systems driving her previous presentations at National Conferences. Lauren’s professional expertise as a small business owner, and social worker have been catalysts for preventative shifts within her own self, community, and influencing environments positively, in which health is at the forefront.
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“In an age when poor health seems so intractable, you’ve taken this community from a place of resignation to a place of hope.”
Dr. Vivek Murthy
Former U.S. Surgeon General after his orientation to the Blue Zones work in the Beach Cities, California
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Using evidence-based lessons of longevity from the blue zones, we optimize the Life Radius, where we live, work, learn, and play.
Life Radius
Blue Zones Activate focuses on optimizing the Life Radius or the area close to home where we spend 90 percent of our lives.
POWER 9
Residents of the original blue zones regions live in very different parts of the world. Yet they have nine commonalities that lead to longer, healthier lives.
The Blue Zones Project Approach
The Story of Lynn Stansbury
