Endeavour College of Natural Health

2020. What a year. We don’t need to talk about the year that was as we all well and truly lived it. Instead, let’s take a look at which articles on the Endeavour Wellspring blog gained our attention in 2020. From a classic konjac noodle piece to exploring the modern wonders of an ancient treatment, here are the articles that piqued your interest this year.

2020 was the year where we spent more time at home, decluttered our space, picked up new hobbies and cleared the shelves of flour to make banana bread.

As a primary school teacher, Sarah Young knows well the heavy workload and expectations placed on teachers. While she loves teaching, when it started to impact her health, she knew she had to find a better way.

In the third year of her Naturopathy degree, Brooke Klower discovered she was pregnant. Rather than stop, she persevered with her studies, going into labour during an exam later that year. Two years on, despite some obstacles, Brooke has graduated with high distinctions, set up her own business and recently welcomed her second healthy child.

With two decades of experience in skin treatments and spa therapies, Eleni Cico felt studying Naturopathy was inevitable. Only after she had children, did she decide to pursue her passion for natural health.

The move to online learning as a result of COVID-19 was a godsend for naturopathy student Tara Hansen. As a single mother of three young boys, living in the remote coastal town of Busselton, Western Australia and studying full-time, Tara embraced the opportunity to learn from home.

Around the same time Tahlia Harvey started a business degree in Adelaide, she was delving into nutrition and creating raw food recipes. Her passion for this area grew, so much that she switched her degree to nutrition at the same university, only to find out the course was more about food technology and science.

Last time we caught up with Endeavour graduate Hayley Richards, she had a plant-based dessert business and was starting a plant-based grazing platters business. She was creating beautiful content for Instagram, developing recipes and running nutrition workshops. These days, Hayley’s young son is her top priority, but her career also continues to flourish.

How do you balance the human-centric and holistic traditions of natural health with the benefits of modern technology? Head of Academic Quality, Innovation and Teaching, Mark Payne is tackling this challenge as his team builds an improved digital learning environment for Endeavour.