Genius in Action -- Creating a Model for a Community Wellness Center

After a lot of discussion, collaboration, expression of thoughts and ideas, we're now poised to take our ideas regarding a new healthcare paradigm and put them into a definitive form. The purpose of this experiment is to create a vision that is well-enough defined that someone could, if they so desired, actually put it to use or at least utilize it to provide a significant inspiration for what they would like to create in their own town or community.

I know that putting things to form can be a little tricky and so I'm going to layout a methodology here that I realize is a) not perfect; yet b) is based on an attempt, at least, to be sensitive to the various styles and approaches to which the group who's come this far on this endeavor, seem to respond well. If the approach I'm using isn't ideal for you, I hope you'll pardon its less-than-ideal nature, and share your thoughts, ideas, and visions with us anyway.

The form I'd like to use is the following:

For each entry you make, please choose an area of the vision upon which to focus (i.e. focus on an area like one of the following: the exterior appearance of the center, the underlying philosophy, the various fields of service that would be available, the interior space, how the center handles its financial needs, patient education, community outreach, etc.).

There are numerous areas from which to choose and many not named here. There are also a variety of ways of naming categories that might provide a new linguistic angle that will have us see or think of the area differently or in a totally new way. I want to strong encourage us to feel free to be very creative in this regard.

Since I would like to combine our work into a single document at one point that I'll re-publish on this site as a collective work, I'd like to ask for a small favor. At the beginning of your comment, simply begin by labeling the area your particular post will address as follows:

INTERIOR SPACE:

I see an interior space that is... (or whatever language you'd choose).

The primary point is that the focus area will be in caps and that the commentary will be 2 spaced lines below. This will allow for all of us to easily read through comments and find the material we're looking for and it will allow me to capture the content later and be able to work with it much more easily in order to prepare a collective piece to re-publish here.

One last detail. Rather than disagreeing on someone else's contribution... just add your own vision about the same area. What we're going to do is look for an additive process... or a collective process. Someone may write a vision you think is totally wrong. That's okay. Just describe your vision of the same category in your commentary. Later, we'll take a look at the various versions of each area and see what we feel accomplishes the overall vision the best.

Remember, we're looking to accomplish a couple of goals with this process:

1. Create a well-defined, exciting, invigorating, fresh, practical, and solution-based, vision for a wellness center; and

2. We're looking to have fun in the process (we don't have to create the perfect vision... just something that provides a good springboard).

I'm very enthused to see where we can take this together. We've assembled some good minds with good intent. Feel free to invite others to this process and contribute to as many different areas of focus as you'd like as many times as you feel would be useful.

Let's create something amazing together!

Thank you,
Christopher

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