North Fork Valley Holistic Health Cooperative
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Creation of NFVHH Cooperative Coming Together in Community! Join us in collaborating our vision. Educational Lecture Series Coming Soon. NEWS: Updated as it happens ~ Our next meeting is Tuesday, June 30, 6:30 - 8:00 PM Paonia Public Library, Meeting Room, 3rd Street, Paonia, Colorado As a direct result of the wonderful turnout of the holistic health fair, the Paonia Chamber of Commerce is going to print a Health and Wellness Directory. If you desire to have your name and business in the Paonia Health and Wellness Directory, please download a form at www.paoniachamber.com, get one from Expressions Books Store or either call Gloria Crank at (970) 270-3811, or email her at gloriacrank@hotmail.com. The deadline is July 15, 2009. They would like to have it out by the Harvest Festival in August. You do not have to become a member of the Paonia Chamber to be in the directory, unless you would like to support them with this endeavor. The cost, as of June 2009, is $20 for an individual for the rest of the year. The yearly cost is $40 for an individual. If you know of anyone who wasn't part of the fair and might be interested in putting a listing or ad in the directory, please forward this to them or have them call Gloria Crank. Our first organizational meeting June 2, 2009 at the Paonia Public Library gathered many great ideas and we would like to share them with you! We opened with a recap about the holistic fair through looking at the web pages created for it. One goal is creating a website for North Fork Valley Holistic Health Cooperative. I do web creation through Yahoo Webhoster, a new site would be $6.47 per month first 3 months, then $9.95 after that. We would include an expanded directory with photos of practitioners and/or advocate locations, postings and links to YOUR events, specials, articles, etc.,upcoming events of the cooperative, members forum, blog, on into infinity! Next, we talked about co-op models explored on the internet. Those links follow. Vision, Mission and Mandate | Victoria Community Health Co-operative Montana Faith-Health Cooperative Community First Health Co-op Two ideas resonated with our group from the Victoria, BC Co-op: 1. Evening events open to the public to continue sharing our creative ideas for the co-op. Followed by two holistic health professionals speaking on, and demonstrating, their work/modality/therapy/facet of holistic health (healing foods, herbs for healing, feng shui, dance and music for healing.) Locations would be varied amongst the surrounding communities to draw people from these locations, such as Yoga Tree in Hotchkiss, Paonia Public Library Meeting Room, Blue Sage, etc. These potentially could be called: North Fork Valley Holistic Health Cooperative Educational Series ~ Coming Together in Community 2. Monthly Wellness Clinics Offering the health services of participating holistic providers to Co-op members Appointments would be scheduled in advance through each provider. Everyone also filled out the ways they would be interested in assisting the new cooperative: Wellness/health professional/provider/user of health care of education services, Administration, Communications/Promotion, Education, Event Management, Financial Management, Hospitality, Human Resource Management, Web-site Management, Other We discussed as well, Benefits for providers: Getting to know each other and the work we do via exchanges or lecture demonstrations, then using this networking for referrals for our own patients/clients/customers. Supporting each other through health care. Reiki Exchange. We discussed the desire to have a holistically minded physician in the co-op, homeopath, naturopath, osteopath, acupuncturist, herbalists, all types of massage, energy bodywork and more! Our second organizational meeting Tuesday, June 15 at Hotchkiss Yoga Tree was an inspirational and strategic meeting. We looked over the Montana and Canadian cooperative’s information and then discussed how we would like to create our own cooperative. Below are some of the subject matters we discussed. A. Our Vision and Mission Statement (most important who are we and what do we offer, etc)? The group who met agreed that this is essential in order to move forward with continuity and a solid foundation. B. Administrators, or if non-profit, board members With summer upon us, Margaret and I are seeing that there are times in the coming months that we will be out of town and would need others to assist with the continued creation of the coop for those times. Loraine Adams has divinely stepped in for some of that time, but we are in need of a few more people. C. Clinics (once a month, or 6 times a year, practitioner’s offer their services to those in need…. appointments are set up with the client/practitioner, the exchange/donation is an agreement between the two, and the work is done from your facility) D. Educational Programs (once or twice a month to educate community and members) We have connected with the Blue Sage and they are very interested in promoting this under their Lecture Series….we are meeting with them this coming Monday 22 June to talk about specifics for the community educational programs. We would like to offer educational programs in other towns around the area also. And, we have talked about setting up educational programs for exchanging practitioner’s offerings for possible referrals and knowledge. E. Design a Website (directory, information, vision, mission, offerings, etc) F. Memberships (how much annually or monthly and what are benefits of being a community member or practitioner member)? We would like to see a new paradigm here and with the Clinics G. Fairs (once to twice a year) H. Funding (through memberships and other funding options to cover expenses, expand future offerings and fairs, and to assist those who are in need) Out of the discussions, we created questions with the list of goals and are asking you for feedback as to “how you see the cooperative working for you and the community and what part will you provide for the cooperative”. This will assist in representing a design that resonates with all of us as to how and what the cooperative will look and be run. Let’s create a new paradigm and be as creative as we are inspired to be. Please share your ideas and suggestions in the categories below and return it to us as soon as possible. 1. Vision and Mission Statement (who are we and what do we offer, etc)? 2. Administrators or Non-profit, board members? 3. Clinics-ideas about how to set them up, their purpose, the exchange/donation. 4. Educational Programs-revolve through the clinician members? 5. Design for a Website? The benefit? 6. Memberships-how much, various categories, what to spend the $ on? 7. Fairs-ideas? 8. Funding? You may go to the Contact page and submit your ideas for the Cooperative Creation! Next meeting's progress will be updated here If the above catches your interest, and you have great ideas to share, please join us ! We will continue to discuss the creation of the co-op during regular meetings at the same time of moving ahead and arranging our first in the NFVHH Educational Series. Remember we believe holistic health includes everyone represented at the health fair! In joy creating! Blessings to all! pages created and maintained by Margaret Gilfoyle and Yahoo Sitebuilder oneheartworld.com |
