The goal of this campaign is to create awareness within the
alternative community of the alternative community. We are a crowd funding campaign building a website to connect and inform schools, students, and clients in the alternative community about one another, to increase cross-discipline communication, and to create and give access to a central cal lender of local, national and international events, classes, lectures, workshops, and trainings. Sound strange? The only thing strange about it is what led
to the idea. From personal experience, I know that many alternative schools, healing modalities (some only minutes from one another) and scientific speakers are completely unaware of what the others do or that they even exist. On average the contacted schools know of a small handful or so of other modalities somehow related to their own, but details are often
sketchy. One is mostly referred to Google. Google is cool, but it is a far cry from a personal recommendation from a friend or even an Amazon.com review. Another issue is the lack of communication. Guest speakers are
coming from other countries, across oceans, spending hours on
planes and in cars, preparing lessons and lectures, but they are frequently under-appreciated.These are heads of and/or innovators in their fields and guiding lights to those who are applying their knowledge to healing. But I might hear about these special opportunities two months later. I also often hear how the room was half empty and they won’t be back in a while because of poor turnout. Alternatively, I may hear ahead of time but the event overlaps with 5 other events that I want to go to. The rest of the month is empty. Clearly there is a lack of scheduling coordination! This needs to change. If we are to call ourselves a
“community” then we need to start acting like one.
“Comm” as in communication, “unity” as in united, community. Practitioners, schools and potential clients all need one bulletin board where they can know what is available. Funds for this project will be used to build a website where
alternative health schools for all healing modalities, and
scientists and experts in fields that contribute to the
advancement of health and wellness, can register and post
their class/workshop/lecture/special event/social
event/study group schedules on one public calendar that
can be searched by date, area, country, subject, etc.. Users will be able to come to one place for a clear view of what is available in their area and with their schedules without slogging through an intensive web search, that may not be successful. A second purpose of the site will be to allow
schools/speakers to post information and links that explain
themselves and their work and, in turn, to allow students
and attendees to post amazon.com-like reviews so that
those interested can know what they can possibly expect
and those offering the event can get feedback on whats working or how they might improve. As the site develops, it can be
refined and expanded to serve a more defined
community with new needs emerging. Let’s become a more
defined community! Let’s help each other to grow and
learn and educate. Let’s say hello to our neighbors and
share the many desperately-needed resources we hold in
common, to strengthen ourselves and our professions so we
can all grow!
