A second-generation integrative health practitioner turned organizational culture cultivator and leadership coach, Jade melds a lifetime of steeping in ontology, the biology of cognition, organizational development, and the healing arts with the power of language and sensory/somatic awareness.
A pioneer in her own right, her knack for quickly identifying detrimental patterns and converting them into opportunities for transformation—combined with her ability to help leaders and organizations bridge social, cultural, economic, and ecological gaps—is empowering leaders and organizations of all shapes and sizes how to manifest their visions and values while creating wellness and community.
Meet Jade
- Jade founded Humaning Well in 2017, after serving as owner/acupuncturist at Wisdom Well, a multi-practitioner acupuncture and wellness practice that also offered corporate wellness interventions, community programs including “100 Well Families,” and prototypes of the current Humaning Well programs. A practicing acupuncturist for nearly a decade, she also was an adjunct professor in the Acupuncture and Transformative Leadership and Social Change master’s programs at the Maryland University of Integrative Health (formerly Tai Sophia Institute).
- As the daughter of acupuncture and healing arts pioneers Robert “Bob” Duggan and Dianne Connelly-Duggan, since the age of 17 (after dropping out of high school), Jade has taught globally alongside world class quantum physicists, sinologists, historians, herbalists, social critics, and organizational development practitioners. She studied at The New School in New York City, apprenticed with Ivan Illich, and studied history, literature and writing at the University of Baltimore.
- As a volunteer acupuncturist and clinic coordinator, she helped provide and coordinate more than 25,000 volunteer acupuncture treatments per year at Maryland Community Health Initiatives Inc. (Maryland CHI), one of the first U.S. programs to use acupuncture in the treatment of addiction. Located in a community plagued by high unemployment and underemployment, poverty, homelessness, violence, racism and incarceration, today Penn North (formerly Maryland CHI) is Baltimore’s longest standing recovery community center.
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In Her Own Words
“Transformation starts with each of us. We believe in the power of leadership to change the face of society.”
“We help people uncover the language frames so they can bridge the gap between the culture that they are already inhabiting—that is, their personal/own body culture as well as their organizational culture—and we have them learn the language of transformation. They learn to see what they are already doing and describe it to other people in such a way that they can teach other people what they are doing and building. This is their ‘special sauce’ or ‘magic’ … and we help them transform it into a process, without becoming dogmatic, so that individuals and teams help move things forward while bringing their unique gifts to bear.”
“Humaning Well programs are unique in that we’re intentionally imbedding microhabits of new practices as well as awareness of current habitual patterns so these can be observed more effectively, or enhanced, or changed. The creation and enhancement of habits in public with other people inherently begins to transform the culture around you, because you are potentially or otherwise teaching other people what you are doing as you are doing it.”
“What’s also unique and powerful is the sense of agency you get from recognizing that you are your own ‘primary care provider’ … not just in terms of your own personal body wellness and your overall wellness, but you are also your primary care provider in that you have so much agency in navigating and shifting the world around you. (This, by the way, is the flip side of burnout.)”
“The actual transformational piece is this: ‘How do I use the feelings that I have to create the world that I want?’ Not only are we not vilifying the emotions—we are using the emotions for the wisdom teachers that they are in order to craft the world that comes next. It is each of us knowing ourselves as agents and collaborators with each other in that process. In other words: It’s leadership.” “Inclusion is a habit, not a slogan. And we’re here for it, every day, forever. Feel free to call us on that.”