ABOUT US
5 Bridges gives you simple to use tools that help you make real change in your life. Our easy-to-adopt system integrates into your current routine to make small shifts where it counts– without a huge time commitment or disruption of your day-to-day. The system is focused on five key areas: Bond, Fuel, Move Rest & Give Our approach takes familiar concepts and gives you new perspectives and approaches so you can view the challenges you face with a renewed outlook. Created by Jacob Moore, Founder of NoStigmas mental health nonprofit, this science-backed system is the result of two decades of research, clinical opinion, lived expertise, and experimentation. From inpatient and outpatient facilities, private and public schools, for-profit and non-profit organizations, we empower staff and clients to build resilience and learn to thrive in life. More than 15,000 individuals have been served to date with transformational results!
What is 5 Bridges?
MISSION
We envision an expansive culture of wellness where everyone has access to the knowledge and tools necessary to thrive in life. By empowering organizations, wellness practitioners, and clients with the 5 Bridges system, we can create a worldwide community of total wellness. Lifelong wellness begins by meeting people where they are and growing from there. Through 5 Bridges coaching and workshops, anyone can discover opportunities to improve their wellness through strategies and tools that are simple to implement and build resilience.We aim to be the go-to standard for holistic wellness programming.
VISION
We aim to be the go-to standard for holistic wellness programming. To accomplish this, we’ve created opportunities for engagement on three levels: Organizational leaders Staff and volunteers Clients and community
GOALS
We meet individuals where they are and grow from there, create a culture of wellness within organizations and communities, strengthen existing networks through program integration, bring added value and revenue opportunities to providers, show measurable program outcomes. Our Objectives & Outcomes are to empower individuals to take ownership of their wellness, help build sustainable wellness practices, introduce modalities that build resilience, utilize wellness as prevention, and increase one's capacity to thrive in life.
THE PROGRAM
ENDLESSLY CUSTOMIZABLE
We all have health and wellness challenges, staff and clients alike. 5 Bridges provides the opportunity for everyone to address these concerns using modalities that anyone can understand. Using one system helps to break down unuseful hierarchies within treatment.
ONE SYSTEM FOR ALL
There's no one-size-fits-all for wellness. That's why 5 Bridges has been designed as a framework to explore and build customized strategies. Every body is different and each path to wellness should be as unique as the individual.
WORKSHOPS
This strategic mix of lived-expertise, focused discussion and activities provides the tools to begin the wellness journey in a low-pressure environment.
COACHING
This progressive multi-session deep-dive guides individuals through our evidence-informed curriculum using motivational interviewing in a group dynamic or one-on-one.
WHAT ARE THE 5 BRIDGES?
HOW YOU CONNECT
BOND is the act of connecting to anyone or anything that provides you with some form of support. This can include your beliefs, people, pets, places, objects and even knowledge—your sources of strength.
WHAT YOU INTAKE
FUEL is anything and everything that goes into your system in any way. Beyond food, we look at conversations, media, and even the air we breathe. Everything that goes in has an impact on the system.
WHAT YOU DO
MOVE is the kinesthetic output of your body. Most commonly, we think of physical fitness, but this can also include the internal movements that happen within your body all the time, like circulation & digestion.
WHEN YOU RECOVER
REST is any time your body, mind or spirit get to recover and reset. Sleep is our primary source of REST, but we go deeper to examine other approaches, such as time in nature and restorative practices.
YOUR OUTPUT
GIVE explores how we contribute to others and the world around us in positive ways. GIVE can elevate us to another level and feed our soul, but as with every Bridge, it's important to learn balance and boundaries.
