Vive Academy, Inc.
Nurturing Intellect, Intuition, Imagination
Our Services
Cultivating diverse, dynamic, and fertile places to honor and strengthen health
What Is Vive Academy?
Vive Academy, Inc. a 501(c)(3) nonprofit started in 2016 by Jason and DeeAnn Dean to address the root causes of chronic disease in youth and adults.
FUNDRAISING FOR A FARM SCHOOL
We are raising funds to start a farm school for preschoolers in Elkton, TN.
“The power of imagination is to see things whole, to see things clearly, to see things with sanctity, to see things with love.” -Wendell Berry
Practice The Basics
At Vive Academy, we encourage everyday practices and personal relationships to address the root causes of sickness and disease. Together, we Breathe, Listen, Ask, Look, Touch© real life to cultivate material intelligence and learn practical skills. By practicing the basics together, we honor and strengthen unity, solidarity, goodness, harmony, and growth of the whole person.
Vive Academy’s Mission Statement
Our Mission:
Vive Academy is a place of education. We focus on growing imagination, deepening intuition, learning from science, knowing reason, and expanding the intellect. We are a place of learning where the spirit, heart, mind, and body are engaged, and the whole person grows. Our 'Practice The Basics' curriculum encourages individuality rooted in belonging to a living loving community.
Our Purpose:
We work to cultivate the place (the good soil) and the web of personal relationships to ensure diversity, complexity and ‘healthy’ development. Strong human relationships cannot be replaced or simulated by technology. Instead, these living connections are essential to give and receive love, encouragement, inspiration, nourishment and blessing. Thus, allowing for Love, Truth, Beauty, Joy and Wisdom to flow, fly, crawl, sing, vibrate, shimmer, dance, and constantly move within, around, and through us.
Our Belief:
Only through collective being, living, working, worshipping, and playing can we ignite Awe and Wonder, honor the sanctity of life, and discover our unique calling. Our health, wholeness, and holiness are nurtured in the process, not merely in the outcomes. We ‘Practice the Basics’ to become our best selves through our relationships and our daily interactions with the people, places, and things.
Experience:
We guide our teachers, students, and parents to actively participate in hands-on learning.
Strength:
Healthy communities consist of healthy individuals. At Vive Academy, we cultivate ‘real’ places for real people to practice real principles to remember and strengthen our real connections in a real community.
Hope:
Our hope is seen in our pursuit of ‘whatever things are true, whatever grand, whatever right, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever of good repute- if there be any virtue and be any praise” believing our actions will support health recovery, enhance relationships, and transform the habits, routines, and practices essential for both personal and communal flourishing.
Resources:
Our greatest resources are an abundance of Love, Truth, Beauty, and Wisdom flowing through Creation and Creatures.