Introducing the Integrative Wellness Collective – A Co-op
Hello! My name is Stephanie Bucklin, and I am the visionary for the “Love Warrior Wellness Cooperative,” which is now known as the Integrative Wellness Collective. You can read about the history of this cooperative in our blog, History of the IWC.
The Integrative Wellness Collective is seeking to provide a holistic solution to resolve larger societal issues of obesity, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and food insecurity. We are empowering humanity to be more mindful of their individual choices that are affecting themselves and the planet. Our true target market is all human beings, ages 0 to 100, in every culture, internationally. Most often, we expect to serve women, supporting the strengthening of our divine feminine and the woman of the household. Men are welcome to join our collective in support of this objective, as well as to heal the divine masculine.
We are starting the collective with Phase One, our Founding Member’s Launch. We are creating membership programs to help wellness business owners who want to thrive in their businesses by learning valuable entrepreneurship skills and challenging their own limiting mindsets in favor of reducing stress and increasing revenue.
WHAT WE DO
The Integrative Wellness Collective – a Co-op! Is a membership organization, offering business support and education for wellness professionals.
HOW WE DO IT
We offer member benefits, based on different levels of membership, including:
● Hybrid education modules, evening workshops & weekend seminars;
● Bartered and discounted wellness services (Members Helping Members);
● Masterminds, accountability partners & networking opportunities; and
● A Member Directory with advertising options to increase visibility.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
Wellness business owners often struggle with imposter’s syndrome, usually because of mindset limiting beliefs about their ability to create a successful business. On top of that, they are not usually educated in business strategies that lead to success. Our proven methods will help our members co-create, build, grow and scale their
businesses for increasing ROIs!
We have three causes that we ascribe to through our business practices, programs and services – an individual, community and global cause:
INDIVIDUAL HUMAN POTENTIAL CAUSE: The collective will develop and offer programs and services that teach individuals and families how to access their innate self-healing abilities by acquiring proper nutrition from whole foods, detoxifying the body, mind and spirit, aligning to personal truths, resolving limiting beliefs, listening to intuition, unconditional self-love, and compassionate loving kindness, thereby creating the necessary mind-body-spirit connections for deeper somatic awareness and inner peacefulness.
ONE LOVE COMMUNITY CAUSE: To offer programs and services that teach Permaculture and sustainability skills for healthier practices for humanity and the planet, and to empower the community to be stewards for the Earth and live in peace with all living things. Our community services will include all the business support services offered by our collective.
GLOBAL UNITY CAUSE: To become a catalyst for positive societal change through our online humanity coaching, service-learning, and global citizenship programs, to help create the tipping point needed for humanity to transition to a peaceful society. We will also positively affect the global community with our virtual conscious wellness events.
As we grow the cooperative’s audience, we will find the community support needed to building a healing center. Our goal is to grow first with the wellness industry as a resource for inspiring businesses to thrive. Once we have dialed in the support of our wellness practitioner brothers and sisters, we will begin developing optimal wellness programs to educate and assist the community in weight loss, preventative maintenance and lifestyle medicine, as well as soft skills and holistic self-healing techniques. Our team will take a holistic team-based approach for every client. In doing so, the organization will become a key factor in building a healthier community, empowering individuals and businesses to live more sustainable lifestyles, and becoming a catalyst for disrupting the current healthcare model.
We are creating this business based on the concept of Social Entrepreneurism:
“Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change. Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to take new leaps…Just as entrepreneurs change the face of business, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss and improving systems, inventing new approaches, and creating solutions to change society for the better.” (Source: https://www.ashoka.org/social_entrepreneur)
The unique business structure will help create a self-sustaining business – a multi-stakeholder cooperative structure will allow the Investors, Founders, Practitioners, and Community Members will be co-owners of the organization. For community members, they will “buy-in” with membership fee [like an insurance premium] and receive access to all our products and services at discounted rates [like a co-payment]. Our intention is to replace the need for Health Insurance, disrupting that section economy to put the ownership of wellness back into the hands of the consumer.
Beginning in Spring 2024 Phase One of the Integrative Wellness Cooperative is focusing efforts into developing a team of Supporters, Partners and Co-Founding Members for this beautiful organization. We are actively looking for other social entrepreneurs to partner with during phase one of this cooperative business to join us as Founding Members. If you happen to know anyone that would resonate with this idea, please feel free to share this website!
The goals of the Integrative Wellness Collective are currently:
STARTING THE IWC
1. Raise Funds for the IWC. Re-engage the Founding Members Launch and run membership drives until June 2024. Prepare for Pitching Opportunities. Practice at Pitch In and other community pitching events.
2. Establish the IWC as a corporation by April 1st (note – this business is currently acting as a brand & DBA under Stephanie Bucklin Consulting LLC).
3. Rebuild the website to be a directory of healers. Create an account with Mighty Networks and hire help to build the directory.
4. Plan schedule for membership drives to occur on a regular basis.
CONSCIOUS WELLNESS EVENTS
1. Produce a beautiful, effective, and wildly successful events in 2024.
2. Produce a Summer Gala for the IWC for fundraising in July 2024
a) Reserve the venues & create the event pages for these events.
b) Sell at least 50 tickets per event.
c) Send out IWEC Event Surveys to all the attendees of our events.
TWO YEAR OBJECTIVES
In the Next Two Years:
1. Raise at least $350K for the startup, funding three W2 employees’ payrolls, and covering the first six months of our leasehold expenses.
2. Grow our Members on the platform to 100 business owners before 2025.
3. Create Planning Committees from the membership base to start the second phase of the organization.
4. Document all our progress as we develop the organization – saving the key information for franchising the organization in the future.