Leaves Speak Healthcare

11/19/2025

Leaves Speak is hosting our inaugural Innovation Lab on Nov 30, and we invite you to help us explore four new tools designed to support aging, connection, and thoughtful preparation across generations. This Lab offers a guided walkthrough of each resource, space for reflection, and the opportunity to share insights that strengthen how these tools serve families, caregivers, and community settings.

During this session, participants will engage with:
1. Pathways to Elderhood, a reflective guide that supports conversations about identity, wisdom, and purpose in later life.
2. The Scenario Planning Guide for Aging in 2040, a workbook that helps individuals and communities think ahead and imagine what aging may look like in a changing world.
3. Intergenerational Conversation Starters, prompts that encourage meaningful dialogue between generations and help build deeper understanding.
4. The End of Life Readiness Index, a gentle assessment that supports emotional, relational, and practical planning for the future.

This inaugural Innovation Lab is designed for anyone interested in strengthening how we prepare for aging, how we support one another, and how we build connection across generations. Your perspective helps us ensure these tools are grounded, accessible, and useful in real life.

Join us on Nov 30 as we explore the future of aging and connection together. Leaves Speak looks forward to welcoming you.

11/15/2025

🌿 Reimagined Social Determinants of Health

The SDoH Solutionary® Immersive Fellowship offers a clinically adjacent, upstream approach to the forces that shape health, aging, and community well-being. Instead of relying on the traditional list of social determinants, we explore five reimagined domains that honor dignity, equity, purpose, and connection: Intragenerational Mobility, Intergenerational Equity, Soul Care, Community Networks, and Virtual Neighborship.

Participants can join through the Fellowship, the Designation, or the combined Fellowship plus Designation Bundle. You can also add specialty certificates that deepen your understanding of how personal experiences shape societal outcomes.

🌿 Social Determinants of Joy (SDoJ) looks at how meaning, joy, and emotional resilience influence a person’s health on an individual level, and how collective expressions of joy influence cultural well-being and the emotional climate of society.

💼 Social Determinants of Business Health (SDoBiz) explores how work culture, entrepreneurship, and economic stability affect a person’s daily life and long-term health, while also showing how business ecosystems, economic mobility, and workplace policies shape societal health.

🕊️ Social Determinants of Death (SDoD) examines how a person’s relationship with mortality, grief, and legacy impacts individual wellness, and how community grief practices, end-of-life systems, and cultural beliefs about death influence population health across generations.

Applications open in Spring 2026 and programs begin in Fall 2026. Join the waitlist to receive early updates, inside details, and first access when enrollment becomes available.

👉 Join the Waitlist

https://www.leavesspeak.com/sdohsolutionary

11/15/2025

Reimagined Social Determinants of Health

The SDoH Solutionary® Immersive Fellowship offers a clinically adjacent, upstream approach to the forces that shape health, aging, and community well-being. Instead of relying on the traditional list of social determinants, we explore five reimagined domains that honor dignity, equity, purpose, and connection: Intragenerational Mobility, Intergenerational Equity, Soul Care, Community Networks, and Virtual Neighborship.

Participants can join through the Fellowship, the Designation, or the combined Fellowship plus Designation Bundle. You can also add specialty certificates that deepen your understanding of how personal experiences shape societal outcomes.

Social Determinants of Joy (SDoJ) looks at how meaning, joy, and emotional resilience influence a person’s health on an individual level, and how collective expressions of joy influence cultural well-being and the emotional climate of society.

Social Determinants of Business Health (SDoBiz) explores how work culture, entrepreneurship, and economic stability affect a person’s daily life and long-term health, while also showing how business ecosystems, economic mobility, and workplace policies shape societal health.

Social Determinants of Death (SDoD) examines how a person’s relationship with mortality, grief, and legacy impacts individual wellness, and how community grief practices, end-of-life systems, and cultural beliefs about death influence population health across generations.

Applications open in Spring 2026 and programs begin in Fall 2026. Join the waitlist to receive early updates, inside details, and first access when enrollment becomes available.

👉 Join the Waitlist

https://www.leavesspeak.com/sdohsolutionary

Explore the SDoH Solutionary immersive fellowship by Dr. Maurya Dominica Cockrell, designed to address the social roots of health through joy, justice, and legacy-centered care.

11/03/2025

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10/10/2025

At Leaves Speak, we believe ageism is one of the most overlooked public health issues of our time. It hides in plain sight in how we talk about older adults, how decisions are made for them instead of with them, and how society often values productivity over presence. Ageism harms not only individuals but entire communities by shaping how we view wisdom, purpose, and care.

Our elderspeak trainings help families, caregivers, educators, and professionals recognize that tone, language, and body posture carry power. When we simplify our words unnecessarily or speak in a way that sounds patronizing, we diminish dignity. When we invite older adults into real conversation, we restore connection and agency.

Through our work, we empower older adults to use their voices, share their stories, and lead the dialogue on what respect truly looks like. Families learn that inclusion is not about doing for their loved ones but doing with them.

On Ageism Awareness Day, we honor every life stage as valuable, every voice as necessary, and every generation as part of a shared legacy. Changing the way we speak can change the way we see.

10/10/2025

At Leaves Speak, we believe ageism is one of the most overlooked public health issues of our time. It hides in plain sight in how we talk about older adults, how decisions are made for them instead of with them, and how society often values productivity over presence. Ageism harms not only individuals but entire communities by shaping how we view wisdom, purpose, and care.

Our elderspeak trainings help families, caregivers, educators, and professionals recognize that tone, language, and body posture carry power. When we simplify our words unnecessarily or speak in a way that sounds patronizing, we diminish dignity. When we invite older adults into real conversation, we restore connection and agency.

Through our work, we empower older adults to use their voices, share their stories, and lead the dialogue on what respect truly looks like. Families learn that inclusion is not about doing for their loved ones but doing with them.

On Ageism Awareness Day, we honor every life stage as valuable, every voice as necessary, and every generation as part of a shared legacy. Changing the way we speak can change the way we see.

10/04/2025

🌿 Meet Our Fall MPH Intern 🌿

We’re excited to welcome Melissa C**n, a graduate student at the University of Missouri pursuing her Master of Public Health, to our team this semester. She brings valuable experience as a clinical laboratory scientist, where her work sparked a deeper curiosity about how data informs the broader field of public health.

Melissa’s academic and professional interests include social determinants of health, epidemiology, disease prevention, health disparities, and health equity. This fall, she is contributing her passion and perspective to our project, Intergenerational Solidarity: A Global Look at Public Health Impacts of Generational Cohesion.

We are grateful for her commitment to advancing equity and excited for the insights she will bring to this important work!

09/26/2025

Reimagined Social Determinants of Health

The SDoH Solutionary® Immersive Fellowship reimagines the social determinants of health by moving beyond the traditional list of factors like housing, income, and education. Instead, our framework introduces five reimagined domains that reflect a justice-centered and dignity-driven approach to health and aging: Intragenerational Mobility, Intergenerational Equity, Soul Care, Community Networks, and Virtual Neighborship. These domains expand the conversation from what communities lack to what they can create, sustain, and transform.

Fellows gain a deep understanding of upstream public health approaches, practical tools for grief-informed and elder-centered design, and the language and frameworks needed to shape programs, policies, and partnerships. Graduates are recognized as SDoH Solutionaries®, prepared to bring innovation and equity to the systems they influence.

The fellowship is designed for public health professionals, healthcare leaders, educators, community organizers, nonprofit leaders, spiritual care providers, doulas, and facilitators who are ready to engage in reimagined solutions. Participants can also pursue specialty certificate tracks in the Social Determinants of Joy (SDoJ), the Social Determinants of Business Health (SDoBiz), and the Social Determinants of Death (SDoD), extending their impact in focused areas of practice.

📩 Applications open Spring 2026. Fellowship begins Fall 2026. Join the waitlist today to stay connected and receive exclusive previews.

👉 https://www.leavesspeak.com/sdohsolutionary
info@leavesspeak.com

Explore the SDoH Solutionary immersive fellowship by Dr. Maurya Dominica Cockrell, designed to address the social roots of health through joy, justice, and legacy-centered care.

09/26/2025

Reimagined Social Determinants of Health

The SDoH Solutionary® Immersive Fellowship reimagines the social determinants of health by moving beyond the traditional list of factors like housing, income, and education. Instead, our framework introduces five reimagined domains that reflect a justice-centered and dignity-driven approach to health and aging: Intragenerational Mobility, Intergenerational Equity, Soul Care, Community Networks, and Virtual Neighborship. These domains expand the conversation from what communities lack to what they can create, sustain, and transform.

Fellows gain a deep understanding of upstream public health approaches, practical tools for grief-informed and elder-centered design, and the language and frameworks needed to shape programs, policies, and partnerships. Graduates are recognized as SDoH Solutionaries®, prepared to bring innovation and equity to the systems they influence.

The fellowship is designed for public health professionals, healthcare leaders, educators, community organizers, nonprofit leaders, spiritual care providers, doulas, and facilitators who are ready to engage in reimagined solutions. Participants can also pursue specialty certificate tracks in the Social Determinants of Joy (SDoJ), the Social Determinants of Business Health (SDoBiz), and the Social Determinants of Death (SDoD), extending their impact in focused areas of practice.

📩 Applications open Spring 2026. Fellowship begins Fall 2026. Join the waitlist today to stay connected and receive exclusive previews.

👉 https://www.leavesspeak.com/sdohsolutionary
info@leavesspeak.com

09/20/2025

🌟 Meet Our Fall MPH Intern 🌟

We’re excited to welcome Star-Lin’, a Master of Public Health student at the University of Missouri, to our team this semester. With a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Saint Louis University and deep roots in St. Louis, she is contributing her skills and passion to our Business Health for Boomers project.

Star-Lin’ is dedicated to disease prevention, disease surveillance, and advancing health equity. After completing her MPH, she plans to apply her knowledge to strengthen health systems and promote innovative, equity-driven approaches that support healthier communities.

We’re grateful to have her perspective shaping Business Health for Boomers this fall!