The WellNest Center is a non-profit community, co-operative healthcare initiative that will introduce alternative healing and well-being strategies and practices to restore and rejuvenate one’s body, mind, and spirit. The WellNest Center will offer people tools to improve or sustain a positive quality of life. Many people are only familiar with traditional forms of health care, i.e. physicians, therapists and medication, but the WellNest Center will educate and introduce people to non-traditional alternatives. By hosting educational forums and hands on sessions under one roof, the community will learn where to go to avail themselves of new tools and resources to live a healthier life. Some tools, strategies, practices and programs to be offered may include, but not be limited to: yoga, meditation, nutrition, Reiki, Tapping (EFT), Rolfing, IntenSati, dance group therapy, art, journaling, music/ drumming, gardening, essential oils, mudras, crystals, and more. The target population of the WellNest Center will be broad, for example: A mother or father that gave up their career to stay home with their children, only to feel like they are now missing a big part of who they knew themselves to be; A divorcee who finds herself alone for the first time in years, maybe the first time ever; Newly separated or divorced people finding themselves lost in a mess of bills, taxes and other financial obligations, and at a loss with regard to home and car repairs; People who find themselves isolated from friends they knew when they were younger; Empty Nesters whose kids went off to college, or moved away for a job or to establish a new family; Adults who have lost a spouse or aging parent. The WellNest Center will offer tools to help people re-acclimate, and shake the sadness, depression, and anxiety in order to move forward in their lives and reclaim their vigor and zest for life. The WellNest Center is likely to have something for everyone, not just for those people who have experienced a loss, but people who want to live life more fully and embark on a new path to wellness. The uniqueness of this community, cooperative WellNest Center is that alternative care practitioners and other professionals will be asked to donate several sessions in order to demonstrate and introduce people to their practice or skill. By donating their time, the practitioners will not only be giving back to the community, but will likely gain additional clients from their involvement and demonstrations. The cooperative nature of the WellNest Center anticipates that will need to ‘give’ in order to ‘get’. Visitors to the Center will be invited to make a donation, but will not be required to pay for introductory classes. By rotating practitioners on the schedule, the Center will afford many professionals the opportunity to demonstrate their practice and at the same time offer the community the opportunity to try-out new wellness tools. Wellness centers are not a new concept, but the cooperative nature of Life Management’s WellNest Center and the expansiveness of the offerings is rather unique. This model could very well lead to replication elsewhere. Now, more than ever, we need to come to a new appreciation of our health and wellbeing, and learn to share our expertise and experience with others. We may gain a new understanding that feeling good and feeling necessary go hand in hand. Volunteering or just word of mouth about something that has been healing can make a monumental improvement in someone else’s life. The WellNest Center will provide opportunities for people in the community to share in some way and to improve the lives of people around them. “It takes a village.” and “I will take care of me for you, and you take care of you for me” will be exemplified by the structure of the WellNest Center at the historical Crane Building.