Once applicants have been assigned a cohort, we will work with each cohort’s participants and families to decide on our a schedule that fits everyone best. Most likely, we will meet on one weekday evening and on one Sunday afternoon.

In addition, there will be two overnight weekend trips to bookend each cohort. These are expected to occur on the first weekend and the fifth or sixth week.

Unfortunately, participants must be randomly assigned to either the Winter or Spring session. We hope you can participate in the session you were assigned, but we cannot reassign you to the other session.

Yes! We can make sure that household relatives are assigned to the same session.

If your application has a space to indicate if multiple family members are applying together, please indicate so there. If your application form did not include the option to disclose household co-applicants or more members of the household signed up at a later date, please contact tpipest@uw.edu.

In order to participate in our Winter and Spring programming, we ask that you are able to travel to varying locations throughout Tulsa twice a week. 

In addition, our program occasionally takes excursions out of the city. For activities more than an hour-long drive out of Tulsa, we will try our best to offer transportation accommodations to as many participants as possible. In these situations, we will arrange for pickup and dropoff locations in Tulsa.

Yes! Beyond exercising and making healthy life choices during Wakaya programming, we will hold additional meetings and opportunities for our participants to keep up with their personal health goals.

Over the three months following the six-week program, we will hold monthly group check-in sessions where participants discuss their health journeys in the wake of Wakaya. In addition, each participant has the option to participate in one-on-one mentoring sessions with program leaders to discuss their wellness journeys. Lastly, participants will reconvene and demonstrate their leadership skills by working together to contribute to an event for their community.