Welcome
International Wellness Network, Inc., is a 501C3 global missions ministry (organized in 2006, received 501C3 status in 2009), serving as co-creator in creating a "poverty free world where all children can thrive". Our mission is focused primarily on limited income families/families of color in America, Europe, Africa and Latin America, incorporating our organization's 7 Principles to Optimal Wellness for a community:
These principles are:
1. Spirituality - exploring the meaning and purposes in life: values, ethics, love, friendships, kindness, forgiveness, charity, trust, and gratitude.
2. Intellectual - stimulating the mind and creatively using resources available to expand, knowledge, education, continuing education, libraries, reading and cultural activities.
3. Emotional - recognizing one's feelings and relating to others positively: goal setting, planning, expression of feelings, assertiveness and stress management.
4. Physical - striving toward optimal health and fitness with a proactive lifestyle, activity, recreation, nutrition, weight management, smoke free living, medical, self care, self exams, appropriate use of medical care and chemical (drug and alcohol) control.
5. Social - environmental - responsible and cooperative interaction with the world around us, family planning, friends, building social support, community involvement, volunteerism, safety and pollution control.
6. Economical - striving for fulfillment in one's life through work, career planning, continuing education, leadership training, decision making, time management, retirement planning, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
7. Political - defining and developing a "well conscious" public policy system inclusive of all citizens based on culturally sensitive traditions, that make up a community.
International Wellness Network, Inc.'s primary mission is to support the empowerment of urban communities, individuals with creativity and visible skills through "social entrepreneurship".
WHAT IS A SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR?
According to David Bornstein, Author of "HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR AND THE POWER OF NEW IDEAS", states that "Social Entrepreneurs are the new Sheroes and Heroes in the 21st Century. "social entrepreneurs identify resources where people only see problems. They view the communities as the solution not the passive beneficiary. They begin with the assumption of competence and unleash resources in the communities they're serving".
Bill Drayton, CEO, Chair and Founder of Ashoka states that, "social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry."
We all can agree that a social entrepreneur identifies and solves social problems on a large scale. Just as business entrepreneurs create and transform whole industries, social entrepreneurs create and transform whole industries, social entrepreneurs create and transform whole societies. Social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss in order to improve systems, invent and disseminate new approaches and advance sustainable solutions that create social value.
Unlike traditional business entrepreneurs social entrepreneurs primarily seek to generate "social value" rather than profits. And unlike the majority of non profit organizations, their work is targeted not only towards immediate, small scale effects but sweeping change.
The job of a social entrepreneur is to reorganize when a part of society is stuck and to provide new ways to get it unstuck. He or she finds what is not working and solves the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution and persuading entire societies to take new leaps.
Identifying and solving large scale social problems requires a committed person with a vision and determination to persist in the face of daunting odds. Ultimately, social entrepreneurs are driving to produce measurable impact by opening up new pathways for the marginalized and disadvantaged, and unlocking society's full potential to effect change. The past two decades have seen an explosion of entrepreneurship and a healthy competition in the social sector, which has discovered what the business sector learned from the railroad, the stock market and the digital revolution. Nothing is as powerful as a big new idea if it is in the hands of a first class entrepreneur.
The revolution is fundamentally changing the way society organizes itself and the way we approach social problems.
International Wellness Network, Inc., joins Kiva, Ashoka and others in the mission in creating opportunities for individuals within their own community to pull themselves up by the bootstraps through "social entrepreneurship and community organizing". Through education, community building and small monetary investments, communities can work toward turning themselves around with a "little bit of help from friends". We believe through International Wellness Network, Inc., we can make a difference by supporting communities in which we serve, through self help. We want you to join us in our mission in "creating a poverty free world where all children can thrive".
JOIN WITH US IN BRINGING OUR 5 YEAR PLAN TO FRUITION AS CO-CREATORS OF "GARDEN OF EDEN SCIENCE OF LIVING CENTERS THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITIES.
OUR GARDEN OF EDEN SCIENCE OF LIVING CENTERS, A SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY PROMOTING HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOR ALL PEOPLE, WILL PROVIDE A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALING AND EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES THROUGH SERVICES AND PRODUCTS THAT SUPPORTS HEALTHY LIFESTYLES, COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT AND NURTURING OUR YOUTH FOR TOMORROW. SOME OF THE SERVICES AND PROJECTS OFFERED THROUGH GARDEN OF EDEN SCIENCE OF LIVING CENTERS INCLUDE:
MASSAGE THERAPY SERVICES
NUTRITION
CULTURAL DIVERSITY TRAINING
LISTENING CIRCLE TRAINING
BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES
INTERNATIONAL MOTHERS CLUB EMPOWERMENT CIRCLES FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
BOYS TO MEN TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, A DRUG, ALCOHOL AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION INITIATIVE PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG MEN TO BECOME ALL THEY CAN BE AS SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND ENTREPRENEURS
"HEALING DRUM TOURS", EVANGELIZING COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE POTENTIAL FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, PROVIDING BUSINESS AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR URBAN ENTREPRENEURS AND INDIVIDUALS OF LIMITED INCOME. WE BELIEVE THAT OUR CREATOR ALWAYS HELP THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO HELP THEMSELVES TO THE TREE OF LIFE. WE BELIEVE THAT WITH A VISION COMMUNITIES GROW, WITHOUT A VISION COMMUNITIES PERISH. OUR VISION IS TO WORK WITH SUPPORTING THE EMPOWERMENT OF THE "TEMPLE WITHIN MAN", TO PULL FROM THEMSELVES ALL OF THE IDEAS THAT THE CREATOR HAS GIVEN TO US, TO PLANT AND GROW COMMUNITIES THAT ARE SELF SUSTAINING.
OUR MISSION OUTREACH IS DRIVEN BY GENESIS 1 THROUGH 2:2-3
WE BELIEVE WE CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH THE YIELDING OF THE CREATIVE SPIRIT WITH US, AND THE COLLECTIVE POWER OF COMMUNITY, IN TRANSFORMING THE SPACE GIVEN TO US TO CARE FOR.
THE "HEALING DRUM TOURS" SERVES NOT ONLY AS AN INSPIRATIONAL TOOL, BUT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PLATFORM, UNITING COMMUNITIES CROSS THE GLOBE IN THE "POWER OF COLLECTIVE ENERGY, PROVIDING A HEALTHY SPACE FOR OUR FUTURE GENERATION".
WE ARE THE HEADQUARTERS FOR OUR INTERNATIONAL WELLNESS NETWORK, INC. TOASTMASTERS CLUB, ESTABLISHING PUBLIC SPEAKING CLUBS THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING THE RAISING OF "YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS, AS WELL AS ADULT GROUPS".
WE BELIEVE OUR CREATOR PROVIDED FOR ALL THAT WILL AND WORK TOWARD SELF SUFFICIENCY, THE ABUNDANT LIFE. WE WANT YOU TO BE PART OF OUR MOVEMENT TO SELF SUFFICIENCY IN THE 21ST CENTURY.