Are you committed to serving in a way that is relational, not transactional? Decentralized, not controlled? Evidence-based, not policy-based? Reply to attend roundtable with like-minded colleagues.

If you believe that compassion and accountability are hallmarks of good care, join us the last week of Jan as we inform and inspire each other in the revolution of health & wellness care.

Dear friends and colleagues,

I sent this invite last week, seeking providers who would like to attend a roundtable where we learn from and inspire each other.

I’ve confirmed 16 people in addition to me — including health coaches, PhDs, MDs, DOs, and people who have healed from chronic disease by seeking providers outside of the allopathic system.

Even though we’ll be relying on tech to connect with each other, I’m imagining the vibe you get at a sidewalk cafe like in this picture.

This is the last invite I’ll send before scheduling our meeting — to be held sometime during the week of Jan 26th. If you’re interested, please let me know.

We’ve been trained to think in terms of followers, transactions, conversion rates, administrative efficiency, SEO, and what-not. We’ve been advised to conform to policy, meet administrative burdens, align with respected institutions, and on-and-on. I’m not suggesting that such business activity is inherently inadvisable, just that people over a certain age remember a time before the propaganda onslaught to convince us of all the gains that systemic growth and automation would bring and, eventually, the heavy blanket of choiceless inevitability of it all.

I love using tools for efficiencies. I worked for Microsoft in the 90s and I’ve founded and worked fulltime in online businesses for decades. This is not anti-tech advocacy. It’s a call for each of us to prioritize human values and take actions to demonstrate and promote them.

It’s a call to recognize the inhumanity that has been normalized along with automation and how this inhumanity has invaded our most vital and sacred acts of living, including how we care for our bodies, minds and souls and how we help each other to do so.

It’s a call to look the engineered status quo in the face: the failure, the corruption, the immoral business model, the corrupt centralized authority, and the enforced conformity.

In short, I’m inviting you to connect with your colleagues to inspire each other in reclaiming what is authentic, humane, right, and good in our communities and in our service work. I think this roundtable is an example of the many ways that we can rebuild community that inspires and supports us to each live our truth in a sustainable way.

I invite you to reply back to schedule a call with like-minds where we can learn what others are seeing and doing. Let’s share our vision for how things are changing and what we’re focused on, and how we think our work relates to the whole. Let’s make an opportunity where we can share and listen and learn and inspire each other.

Whether you’re a provider, coach, or teacher and whichever of the plethora of tools and techniques you use, I hope you’ll consider coming together to collaborate on building the future we know is possible.

Let me know what you think.

Sincerely,

Shelly Thorn