The OPEN MIND FOUNDATION
ASSISTING ALL LIFE IN ACHIEVING ITS GREATEST POTENTIAL
www.omfglobal.org
501 ( C ) 3 #68-0211232

PROGRAM DIVISIONS:

The EMPOWERMENT INSTITUTE
THE THINK TANK OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
DAVINCI UNIVERSITY
CREATING EMPOWERMENT THROUGH GREATER UNDERSTANDING 
The URBAN BIOSPHERE
MODERN MAN IN AN ECOLONOMIC ROLE
ALL CREATURES
ENHANCING THE ANIMAL WORLD
WORLD BOTANICAL INSTITUTE
STUDY AND NURTURE OF THE BOTANICAL WORLD
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILIES
THE CORE OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
FOUNDATION FOR INDIGENOUS DEVELOPMENT
RESOURCES FOR ABORIGINAL EMPOWERMENT
The EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES CENTER
PRODUCTS, PROCESSES, & PROFESSIONALS FOR EMPOWERMENT
OPEN BUSHEL
LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE
CONSILIENCE
TECHNOLOGIES FOR EMPOWERMENT
GRIFFIN
THE INNOVATOR'S CRÈCHE FOR THE HUMAN POTENTIAL 
IDIC PUBLICATIONS
PUBLISHING SERVICES FOR THE EMPOWERMENT INDUSTRY
EARTH FRIENDLY 
PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FOR EMPOWERED LIVING
EATING WELL
EDUCATIONAL NUTRITION FOR EMPOWERMENT
HIGH TOUCH WEO
THE WELLNESS ENHANCEMENT ORGANIZATION

THE EMPOWERMENT INSTITUTE
THE THINK TANK OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
(Hub of The OPEN MIND FOUNDATION)
DIRECTOR: James C Torgersen, MD DSc PhD

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
TO RESEARCH AND PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL AND COOPERATIVE EMPOWERMENT 
IN THE CONTEXT OF A HEALTHY FAMILY AND SOCIETY.
ASSISTING ALL LIFE IN ACHIEVING ITS GREATEST POTENTIAL.

SECTION I
METHODS:
1.) Through original, scientifically valid and verifiable basic research and data storage; emphasizing areas not under active consideration by other institutions, strongly focused on new interdisciplinary work and consilience. Individual thought processes and organizational themes are NOT interfered with; this is a fully operational, non-judgmental, and open think tank, where every member works independently in synergy with the team as a whole. 

2.) Through the cooperative talents of a diverse team of highly qualified and motivated individuals and organizations creating and utilizing multilevel, inter and intra specialty networking, within the institution and throughout the world, including other like minded Associations, Coalitions, Universities, and Foundations; both on and off site.

3.) Through Education (with DaVinci University).
A.) Academic Degrees, especially in training and credentialing field professionals in the empowerment arenas, and in creating satellite academic programs in diverse geographic areas.
B.) Multi modal learning center
i.) Video and audio cassettes
ii.) Books
iii.) Computer programs
iv.) Hardware Examples
v.) Processes
vi.) Investigational laboratory and shop facilities.
vii.) Music and fine arts
C.) Applied Maps Media and Edutainment
i.) Regular Radio and TV broadcasts 
ii.) Paid Infomercials
iii.) Guest appearances/keynotes
iv.) Educational TV
v.) Original stage plays
vi.) Feature films

D.) Seminars and Symposia
E.) Guest Lectures in Educational Programs 
F.) Advertisements and Trade Shows
G.) Creation of new Programs as needed 
H.) Volunteer work in all areas

4.) Through publications (with IDIC Publications)
A.) Textbooks and novels
B.) Reviews and articles in periodicals
C.) Scientific papers and journals
D.) Audio and video cassettes
E.) Computer programs
F.) Original music and integrated programming

5.) Through applied research (with Griffin) 
A.) Comprehensive health
B.) Ergonomics
C.) Nutritional helps
D.) Economic products and processes
E.) Professional feedback and follow up
F.) Time and motion
G.) Social studies

6.) Through active enhancement of projects empowering nuclear families as the core of u healthy society (with the International Association for Families).

7.) Through certifying and assisting direct marketing of products for modern living that are unique, economically sound, and lead to higher empowerment (with Earth Friendly).

8.) Through certifying and promoting nutritionally empowering venues and lifestyles (with Eating Well).

9.) Through creating and enhancing programs to restore the natural world in a modern context (with The Urban Biosphere, All Creatures, and The World Botanical Institute).

10.) Through example. The OPEN MIND FOUNDATION policy mandates all associated activities as economically and socially friendly; preferring recycled, solar, renewable, biodegradable, bioenergetics, and other similarly appropriate technologies whenever they are possible. The Empowerment Resource Centers (ERC’s) are non-smoking and non-alcoholic facilities, and all members have committed themselves to the highest of positive lifestyles.

11.) Through the non-partisan support in governmental bodies worldwide of projects empowering human and life potential. We offer our services to any political party in need.

12.) Through High Touch WEO personal care and counseling.

SECTION II
TEAM MEMBERS AND ASSOCIATES
We welcome all with a desire to better the condition of humanity and the biosphere, who have open minds and are willing to be team players, and who choose or do the quality of applied and theoretical work that stands up to international scientific and philosophic scrutiny.

At present, our skills include as a minimum: Acupuncture and EYV, Allopathics, Animal Rehabilitation, Art, Autogenics, Biofeedback, Chiropractics, Community Health, Counseling, Dentistry, Developmental Neurology, Economics, Educational Psychology, EMDR, Emergency Preparedness, Environmental Law, Epidemiology, Ergonomics, Estate Planning, Futurism, Gerontology, Herbalism, Homeopathics, Hypnotherapy, Imagineering, Kalos, Laboratory Skills, Material Science Applications, Massage Therapy, Mnemonics, Naturopathics, Nursing, Nutrition, Occupational and Environmental Law, Occupational Medicine, Optometry, Oriental Medicine, Osteopathics, Personal Appearance and Beauty, Pharmacology, Physical Training, PNI, Podiatry, Primitive Technologies, Psychology, Public Broadcasting, Public Relations, Public Safety and Health, Reiki, Scientific Legitimacy Evaluation, Shamanism, SiddhaVaiydics, Social Psychology, Social Work, Space Technologies, Sports Psychology, Tai Chi, Toxicology, Triom, Virtual Reality, Wellness Financing, and Fork Hardening. We actively solicit others.

We are associated in various degrees with: The Academy of Natural Health Sciences, Amnesty International, The Anthony Robbins Foundation, The Brain Bio Center, The Carl Pfeiffer Treatment Centers, The Center for Science in the Public Interest, The Children’s Miracle Network, CHOICE, The Committee for Freedom of Choice in Medicine, The Cousteau Society, The Environmental Defense Fund, Exodus, The Foundation for Women’s Health in Alabama, The George Lucas Educational Foundation, Hogle Zoo, The Institute of Economics, The International Academy of Lymphology, The International University of Professional Studies, Itchen House, NIH, National Geographic Society, The National Wellness Association, The Natural Law Party, The Nature Conservancy, NGO Family Voice, Pacific Synergy, The PCRM, Rivendell, RMCOEH, SDI, SHIM, UNPA, The World Well-Being Network, WIGS, The World Wildlife Fund, and many local organizations.

SECTION III
SOME FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS

The Empowerment Institute offers assistance to local team members, including financial grants in some cases. However, all permanent on site team members are expected to be able to stand financially in their own, and assistance primarily comes in the form of facility space, team synergy, and networking. Laboratory, shop, or greenhouse space; classroom or lecture hall time; kitchen facilities; convention room; meditation and isolation time; overnight accommodations; and other shared facilities should be scheduled with Support Services. Grant Applications can be obtained from the same office on from the Office of the Director. A list of outside grant sources for which the OMF mediates is also available.
Finder’s fees are awarded for new grant sources.


SECTION IV
MISCELLANEOUS

The Empowerment Institute will offer a limited number of in house residencies for qualified researchers in the empowerment sciences. These tyke the form of 1, 2 or 4 week blocks; single to family suites; room and board; and complete team membership and facility access for the duration of the activity (no stipend). Novel applications of economic principles, modern applications and integrations of ancient methods, and high impact empowerment strategies will be given priority in the application process. Application forms may be obtained through the Office of the Director, and must be filed at least three months in advance of the anticipated time of residency.

All team members are expected to have a strong open door policy for each other, in house students, und the inquiring public.

In keeping with the educational tenets of Utah Virtual University, all classroom sizes are small (excepting large symposia, film viewings, etc.), typically limited to less than 30 students or 15 student teams. Team members with empowering educational ideas that can fit into this format are encouraged to develop their ideas with Mount Olympus University or through the Office of the Director. If team members are teaching classes on their own and wish their students to receive academic credit through one of our academic affiliates, the instructors should file the appropriate paperwork as soon as possible, preferably before the start of class.

The SLC Empowerment Institute is the Hub and Overseer for the OMF network, though considerable flexibility will continue to be the norm throughout. Local area Empowerment Institutes may be started in any reasonably sized geographical area comprising roughly 500,000 people, or physically remote from other existing sites; and should be designed to meet the needs of population served. The primary State or Provincial Empowerment Institute will oversee activities of local satellite sites. Parties interested in starting a satellite site may file forms (found at the end of this brochure) with the National or Divisional Office for their region.

We request that all team members solicit expansions for our Wellness Enhancement Organization (High Touch WEO), as an alternative for existing insurance and HMO programs. Our database is rapidly expanding, and we have proven our ability to dramatically impact the bottom line of member organizations. Finder’s fees are available for this program, as for all other OMF financial programs.

For more information: James C Torgersen
801-949-9072 
www.omfglobal.org


The Empowerment Institute
WOMEN’S STUDIES PROGRAM
Director: DeVona Johnson

The Women’s Studies Program presently has a threefold focus:

I.) I Am A Woman, Knowing myself through a healthy body, an alive mind, an understanding heart and relationship with all things. Simplicity of Lifestyle Heals Me. 

II.) I Am A Woman, Participating in the world, fulfilling my simplicity of purpose and developing my given intuition and talents. Simplicity of Product and Environment Heals the World.

III.) I Am A Woman, Creating a foundation to bring forth healthy children, healthy families, and a peaceful world. Simplicity of Generation Heals the World to Come.

These themes of knowing self, evolving personal health, participating in the world through our own personal gift, and creating healthy children, families, and a peaceful world; may be quickly and easily done through reducing the complexity in our lives in favor of a healthy simplicity of approach in our personal, community, and future lives.

Please contact us at: 
The OPEN MIND FOUNDATION.
801-949-9072
www.omfglobal.org 


The Empowerment Institute
EMPOWERES YOUTH
Director: Katherine Torgersen

The Empowerment Institute, a program division of The OPEN MIND FOUNDATION, is proud to announce the Empowered Youth program, planned and administered BY youth FOR youth. Adults serve only as resources and role models. Academic credit and resourcing are shared with the Rainbow Academy.

It is increasingly clear, as the social fabric of our world becomes ever more eroded and the cost of even minimal health care and living necessities rockets past our collective ability to pay, that a new attitude be taken. We cannot afford to pay for disease and repair, when empowerment is so much pore cost effective. This is especially true when attitudes of self-reliance, a respect for the Earth, and preventive health are learned early and well.

Working in close coordination with private and public school systems, youth clubs, Scouting, civic groups, and other youth organizations; The OPEN MIND FOUNDATION stands ready with educational, motivational, and physical resources to further the goals of Empowering Youth today for a strong tomorrow.

Two primary programs presently exist to further these foals. Others will be created as needed. Contact your local Empowerment Institute for details on your local program.

EMPOWERMENT FAIRS

In coordinated efforts with local schools, The Empowerment Institute professional youth staff and adult resource team will provide the following helps K - 12:

1.) Special topic assemblies are provided once a month per school during the school year. These cover nine individual areas of interest in any order. Subjects include practical ergonomics, ecolonomics, comprehensive health, substance awareness, physical fitness, safety, efficiency, civics, family and social skills, spiritual awareness, and others as chosen by the school. Each assembly is delivered multimedia with limited adult staff assistance.

2.) Teacher training sessions will be conducted by our combined professional staff for interested teachers in the topic of the month, so that teachers may serve as resources for the students under their care. Scheduling is flexible, usually involves 4 to 8 hours a month, includes handouts and project ideas appropriate for the school level, and may carry CEU credits for sessions arranged in advance with the School Boards.

3.) The Empowerment Institute wily assist intensively in setting up the school’s Empowerment Fair at the end of the school year (typically in May). Awards ranging from Certificates of Participation to exotic location trips and cash scholarships will be granted to qualifying students at each grade level in each major (monthly) category. Marketable products and processes developed through the course of the year and fair will be developed by the Empowerment Institute for profitable distribution in coordination with the sponsoring school and student(s), with equal profit sharing for involved parties. The top student per grade will be entered in the National all around competition, with one grand prize awarded per year per grade level.

4.) The Empowerment Institute serves as a comprehensive free resource pool alongside the Rainbow Academy for all public and private schools and students involved in the programs. Latchkey assistance programs are also available.

COMMUNITY AWARDS PROGRAM

Nominations are accepted for youth ages 4 through 68 achieving high levels of individual excellence in the Wellness and Empowerment sciences for an awards program each November:

ERGONOMICS For user-friendly tools and processes, especially for student use.
COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH For programs creating higher levels of health and/or health awareness, especially with regard to issues especially impacting the young population.
ECOLONOMICS For designs combining ecological awareness with good business.
FAMILY EMPOWERMENT For enthusiasm and innovation in strengthening the core of life: the family unit. 
COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH For activities specific to improved youthful health.
CIVIC PRIDE For community-based activities.
SUBSTANCE AWARENESS For activities leading to a higher awareness and individual choice empowerment, and not limited to classic drugs alone.
POLITICAL AWARENESS For youth showing and interest and ability to affect the political machine in their favor, in spite of having no vote to cast.
SOCIAL AWARENESS For youth activities specifically targeted at social issues affecting quality of life: homelessness, adverse gang cultures, racisms, etc.
SPIRITUAL EMPOWERMENT For activities within or without formal religious or philosophical organizational backing that raise the spiritual awareness of youth.
FINE ARTS For outstanding achievement in all areas of the performing and visual arte.
OPEN CATEGORIES For activities not clearly fitting within an existing category.

Only one category per entry will be considered. Forms may be obtained from local offices, or entries may be telecommunicated. Awards take a number of forms from cash to exotic trips. Plaques of winners will be displayed in local EPCs, and local ceremonies and banquets will be covered by local media. 

For Information: Katherine Torgersen, 
801-949-9072
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The URBAN BIOSPHERE
MODERN MAN IN AN ECOLONOMIC ROLE
DIRECTOR: CALVIN N. ANDRUS
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
MAN AS A POSITIVE AND INTEGRAL PART OF THE BIOSPHERE.

Methods:
1.) By seeking out and facilitating earth friendly and ecologically sound processes and products.
2.) Bf educating the public and professional world concerning the true range of options with regard to interfacing with the living and natural world.
3.) By designing Economic products and processes for modern living with the highest possible environmental report card, and then facilitating their entry into the business world.
4.) By fostering individual and corporate environmental empowerment through the wise use of energy and resources of all kinds.

The OPEN MIND FOUNDATION believes that man has the capacity and ethical responsibility to actively enhance and preserve the natural world while living and working in harmony with it through government, business, and private programs:
1.) Healing retreats and centers that reunify mankind with the natural world as a necessary part of any empowerment paradigm.
2.) EcoVillages where a return to the values of ecosensitive living is paramount, while maintaining comfort levels and contact with humanity at large.
3.) Energy and resource independent housing and industries, in the furtherance of self reliance and empowerment.
4.) Ecolonomic products and processes making the fullest use of reclaimed, recycled, and renewable resources while reducing or eliminating the exploitation of non-renewable natural resources.
5.) Programs that rectify the mistakes of the past, through reforestation, wetland reclamation, plains restoration, and enhancement of biodiversity in all native ecologies; all in the context of valid economic principles.

The Urban Biosphere is actively involved in multiple sites worldwide, in cooperation with a multitude of organizations public and private, to fulfill its stated mission and role. 
In partnership with the ecolonomics inventors at Griffin, the academic team at Utah Virtual University, the Institute of Ecolonomics, and other organizations, the Urban Biosphere has created an academic course and text: The Urban Biosphere, Practical Ecolonomics. Practical solutions to a variety of issues are promoted, and all industrial partners of the OMF are encouraged to take the course and participate in all related activities.

WWW.omfglobal.org 
OR 
Calvin N Andrus @ 801-548-2683

ALL CREATURES
ENHANCING THE ANIMAL WORLD
DIRECTOR: JENNIFER STONE, DHVM CANDIDATE

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
TO RESEARCH AND EMPLACE ECOLONOMIC STRATEGIES 
THAT ENHANCE THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.


Methods:
1.) Supporting existing programs of other NGOs and governmental agencies that meet the empowerment objectives of the OMF.
2.) Creating and promoting new programs as needed where no other organizations are meeting recognized needs.
3.) Integrating IDIC Institute coursework with the holistic needs of the animal and veterinary world.
4.) Training Veterinary and Agricultural professionals in Earth and Animal friendly modes of business.

The focus of activities wile be:
First: domestic livestock and agricultural animals.
Second: household animals and pets.
Third: wild and feral species, especially those endangered or in negative contact with human populations.

Priorities are given to those arenas where urgent action is needed, with a reasonable expectation of positive results as a result of All Creatures intervention. 


For more information:
Jennifer Stone, DHVM Cand., 801-949-9072
www.omfglobal.org 


The WORLD BOTANICAL INSTITUTE
STUDYING AND NURTURING THE BOTANICAL WORLD
DIRECTOR: Walter Wagner, PhD
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
TO FOSTER THC STUDY, PROPAGATION, AND PRESERVATION OF RARE, VALUABLE, AND ENDANGERED PLANT SPECIES. TO INVESTIGATE AND IMPLEMENT EARTH FRIENDLY NEW BOTANICOTECHNOLOGIES 

1.) The WBI promotes the creation of botanical preserves with the World Botanical Gardens (a for profit entity) where plant varieties from across the world will be carefully protected and studied as combined tourist attractions in support of local industry empowerment and as sites for basic research.
2.) The WBI investigates commercial processes involving botanical resources:
A.) By promoting essential oil and pharmaceutical producing plant sources such as arigum, melaleuca, and lemon grass in lieu of less cost effective or chemical enhanced agriculture.
B.) By developing alternate pulp sources such as kenaf, hemp, and rice husks for pulp based manufacturing processes.
C.) By developing commercially viable processes harvesting alien pest species, such as EcoLumbers from Tamarisk.
D.) Using air and water purification systems of active botanical beds such as wheatgrass in remediation of sick building syndrome and environmental degradation.
E.) By promoting ecotourism as a viable alternative to deforestation.
F.) By promoting betelnut and exotic plant use in sustainable roles to support native peoples in historical cultural roles without habitat destruction.
G.) By developing parks and recreational areas that enhance local plant populations, such as xeriscaping.
3.) The WBI supports the efforts of botanical groups and research protocols worldwide through the acquisition, coordination, and dissemination of technologies, supplies, and grants.
4.) The WBI supports the efforts and assists in the writing and promotion of legislation in support of a strong biome and biodiversity.
5.) In cooperation with groups of similar or compatible roles (the Nature Conservancy, The Environmental Defense Fund, etc), the WBI supports appropriate reforestation, restoration of wetlands, and replacement of native species. Reversal of desertification and the reversal of the possibility of global warming are a great priority.
6.) When resources are available, academic chairs will be established in major universities in defense of a major educational thrust for sustainable development of the Botanical World.
7.) In coordination with the Urban Biosphere and the IDIC Institute, the WBI will research, collate, and publish in all available formats for general distribution to the peoples and institution of the world.

Horticulturists, ethnobotanists, agronomists, and other professionals in the botanical sciences are invited to join with us in every capacity. 
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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILIES
THE CORE OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
DIRECTOR: CLAUDIA GOATES
MISSION STATEMENT: 
To provide a model, reproducible program where the challenges of individuals and families can be better understood and solutions can be implemented faster and more effectively. Healing individuals in the context of their families automatically heals the greater community.

Families today face a multitude of problems, many of which are unique to this period of history. Agencies both public and private with the commission to assist families and enhance and protect family values are following agendas incompatible with their commission.

The IAF promotes rational family counseling and solutions through the enhancement of already well designed programs, provision of office space and other helps to special need organizations, coordination and mediation between family organizations with incompatible activities, the creation of family oriented educational and media products, the creation of family oriented resource centers, and other activities designed to promote healthy family in modern societies.
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FOUNDATION FOR INDIGENOUS DEVELOPMENT (FID)
RESOURCES FOR ABORIGINAL EMPOWERMENT
DIRECTOR: FRED BOHMAN, ND
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
To rediscover traditional values and rebuild honor and pride in native peoples in x healthy earth and the modern world

As an unfortunate statement on humanity’s inhumanity, most indigenous peoples the world over find themselves in various states of disempowerment; and most peoples over the world are disenfranchised from their heritages. Whether from indifference on the part of more powerful neighbors, active hostility from rival groups, or disempowering government polices; the results are often much the sane. Aboriginals no longer control their fates or adhere to traditional values, lands, or religions; and few modern peoples have a clear sense of historic identity and connectedness with the rest of life and the planet. Thu following corrective tools are preferred:
1.) Education. Without question, the most powerful tool in reestablishing cultural strengths and presenting further loss is the appropriate application of open education on all fronts. It is the position of the FID that traditional cultural values can almost always be reconciled with the needs of modern societies, with both sides winning as resolutions occur. We specifically target traditional knowledge and crafts for this effort.
2.) Legal Procedures. When indicated, clients may request specific or class action assistance from the professional legal staff.
3.) Work and career opportunities. OMF and for profit partners preferentially employ aboriginal or native groups in all business ventures.
4.) Physical assistance. Where necessary, food, health, clothing, and housing assistance is available to eligible aboriginal groups.

For more information:
Fred Bohman, ND
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EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES CENTER
PRODUCTS, PROCESSES, AND PROFESSIONALS FOR EMPOWERMENT 
DIRECTOR: STEVE JONES, MS
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
A CONVENIENT SINGLE STOP FOR ALL EMPOWERING NEEDS

Each OMF physical facility contains as an integral part, a brood selection of services and products for enhanced lifestyles. These are available for all in house personnel, OMF members, and walk ins.
The Empowerment Resources Center acts as physical synergist between clients, wellness and empowerment professionals in the professional mall, educational services through Mount Olympus University, and proximate retail services such as the Earth Friendly Store and Eating Well Restaurant. It thus triages the needs of the professional staff and the potential client base so the most efficient utilization of resources on all sides is realized.
A new client coming to the main reception area of Empowerment Resources Center is given a PIN for computer access and completes an entry survey to establish the initial profile. From this profile, the empowerment team is alerted to the expected nerds of the client, and the most propitious course of action begun. Further contact may actually take place in many circumstances via various telecommunications avenues, obviating the need for physical travel to the location itself except when physical presence is essential for the particular healing modality or commodity needed.

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OPEN BUSHEL
LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE
DIRECTOR: CAROL POPE
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
A TALENT CRÈCHE
In light of the increasing trend in the public schools, to scale back or even eliminate the artistic/creative talent facets of the human condition, The OMF has chosen to support these efforts for gifted students and masters and for anyone else with the desire to develop a talent, at all Empowerment Resource Centers worldwide with the following services and options:
1.) The standard curriculum at Utah Virtual University and the Rainbow Academy includes classes encouraging all the fine and performing arts, and individual creativity is given the fullest possible reign, credit, and exposure. Larger centers incorporate performing groups end talent academies as free standing entities.
2.) All sites include gallery space for the creative work of local artists and students.
3.) All sites also contain a minimum of a time shared stage & auditorium, shop & support space, and a selection of primitive and modern musical instruments. Studios have high priority in rental and permanent membership. Since talent training organizations are often seriously under funded and poorly managed, talent trades, time dollars, and other non-monetary means are encouraged as means to compensate the Empowerment Resource Center for the use of facilities. Additionally, the staff often contracts management functions, freeing artistic directors to depend all their time in their creative spheres where they are most qualified, and with a strong emphasis on K-16 students with talents needing fostering. 
4.) Directors keep records of talent of all sorts within their communities and serve as a public service synergy hub and informational center for talent needs. They are expected to work with local talent agencies as well as independently in a non-competitive atmosphere.
5.) Local directors are expected to maintain a paid professional staff with at least thx following areas of expertise: dance and movement, performing instruments, architecture, painting, sculpture, voice, drama, creative writing, primitive instruments, and children’s performing arts. These may be handled locally by existing organizations invited to join the ERC team on-site, of by starting and fostering new startups as indicated by local situations. 
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CONSILIENCE
TECHNOLOGIES FOR EMPOWERMENT
DIRECTOR: Calvin N. Andrus
MISSION STATEMENT:

To search out and bring together diverse technologies that synergistically meet the needs of modern humanity under sound ecolonomic principles. 

COMPREHENSIVE TECHNOLOGY BASE

ECOLONOMICS

GRIFFIN
THE INNOVATOR’S CRÈCHE FOR THC HUMAN POTENTIAL
DIRECTOR: 
MISSION STATEMENT:
To bring together diverse talents and possibilities in the creation of new products and processes that meet the needs of modern humanity under sound economic principles. 

Griffin functions primarily in the role of facilitator for independent inventors with possibilities meeting the qualifications of the OMF. They are assisted in the necessities of final R&D (with the Empowerment Center), product education (with Utah Virtual University), and intellectual protection.

Revenue from successful projects is shared 85% or more with inventors. If you have an idea you would like to see explored, come and sea us or contact us! Come play in our shops and laboratories! Explore your potential!

IDIC PUBLICATIONS
PUBLISHING FOR THE EMPOWERMENT INDUSTRY
DIRECTOR: Rick Bean

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
TO FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE EMPOWERMENT INDUSTRY AND FOR IN-HOUSE PUBLICATIONS SPECIFIC TO THE OMF AND ASSOCIATES.

All members are requested to make publication submissions and modifications as soon as possible before publication or symposia dates, so that sufficient time is available for printing, binding, and distribution. If at all possible, have all art camera ready or complete within the body of the publication already on disc at the time of submission. And please make yourselves available to answer questions and assist in the creation of the final product.

IDIC Publications will keep all publications permanently on disc and in the IDIC Publications hard drive. Updating of the computer files are the responsibility of the submitting individual or organization. There will also be a bound hard copy of the most current version of printed materials available in the media center of the local ERC.

Copyright and trademark hatters are responsibility of the submitting party. IDIC Publications will submit appropriate publications to the Library of Congress and obtain ISBN numbers. All publication positive cash flow will be distributed to authors after IDIC overhead expenses are covered.

For submissions or to have questions answered, contact the IDIC Publications office in your local ERC, or contact the national office. A list of current publications can be obtained from the same sources. All publications are available through the Earth Friendly Stores located in all ERCs.

EARTH FRIENDLY
PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FOR EMPOWERED LIVING
DIRECTOR: DAVE CARD
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
CERTIFICATION AND ECOLONOMIC REPORT CARDS
Earth Friendly serves as the pre-retail outreach and certification division op The OPEN MIND FOUNDATION. Its purpose is to find and facilitate the marketing of those products for retail sale that:
1.) Have the highest environmental report card.
2.) Have the highest impact on human empowerment.
3.) Simplify lifestyle.
4.) Are otherwise difficult to obtain.
5.) Employ solid Ecolonomic principles in their sourcing, manufacture and end use.

A five star rating requires a score of 90% or better on a scale including all the above areas. 80% earns a four star rating, 70% a three star rating, etc. Organizations may make application as often as they wish, and Earth Friendly will advise on areas where changes will lead to the greatest improvement for the lowest resource output. Generally, the OMF ecolonomics staff can improve bottom lines while dramatically improving ecologic and sociologic imparts. These ratings may then be displayed in conjunction with the product along with an explanation of what the rating means.

Earth Friendly will not exclusively endorse individual product lines except where clearly exceptional values and impact exist, and promotes a non-competitive mode in all of its for-profit recipients. Inquiries coming to Earth Friendly concerning individual product lines and processes will be researched and responded to with no product or company bias, and as a public service based on the best information the Earth Friendly staff and associates can obtain. All physical retail outlets, Internet marketing pages, educational institutions, catalogue sales organizations, and virtually any type of business desiring an Earth Friendly seal of approval for their organization, process, or product may contact Earth Friendly for application forms at: 393 South 2650 West, SLC, UT 84104, or at the Web Site at www.omfglobal.org. 

The service is free. The Earth as not.

EATING WELL
EDUCATIONAL NUTRITION FOR EMPOWERMENT
DIRECTOR: Fred Wix
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
CERTIFICATION OF HEALTHY NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS AND PLACES 

Eating Well is the division of The OPEN MIND FOUNDATION specifically dedicated to facilitating and endorsing eating and nutritional establishments and products that foster empowering nutritional standards.

Eating Well does not endorse any national ethic or nutritional product lines, and seeks rather to promote highly diverse cuisines meeting the needs of v broad population base. 

THE FOLLOWING SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE:
1.) PRODUCT AND/OR PROCESS SEAL OF APPROVAL. This is a free service available to all commercial establishments. Application forms are available from the office of the director. Multiple holistic criteria must be met for approval eating by the Eating Well certification board. 
2.) PRODUCT MODIFICATION. For a reasonable fee, current or proposed products or personal recipes will be analyzed and suggestions made nor nutritionally empowering changes while maintaining or improving product integrity.
3.) REFERRAL SERVICES. Clients seeking sources for nutritionally sound restaurants and retail outlets, or seeking information on the creation of the same, may contact Eating Well. Individual research usually carries a modest fee.
4.) COMPUTERIZED RECIPE SERVICE. Clients may obtain a bound copy of a great number of Eating Well recipes, as selected by the client from a computerized data base. There is a modest charge from IDIC Publications for this service.
5.) EDUCATION. In partnership with Utah Virtual University, Eating Well provides interactive classes and seminars in nutritional science and the preparation of nutritionally embowering foods. All classes carry academic credit at post secondary levels.
6.) PUBLICATION. In partnership with IDIC Publications, Eating Well will facilitate the publication/distribution of recipe books and nutritional texts meeting Eating Well standards.


HIGH TOUCH WEO 
WELLNESS ENHANCEMENT ORGANIZATION
DIRECTOR: STEVE JONES, MS

Introductory Principles
As John Naisbitt correctly predicted in Megatrends, the inroads of High Technology on and in our personal lives has led to a backlash of “High Touch” services and products.
No where is this trend more pronounced than in the Wellness and Empowerment fields. The modern Western medical model, with its increasing reliance op sub specialization and technology, has followed the High Tech route to the point where vast numbers of system users (no longer “patient”) are defecting to models where empathic touch vs still the norm. While this movement has led to significant cost savings over current allopathic models, greater health through greater awareness of options, and a resurgence of interest in “primitive” or “alternative” health forms; it has also led to a great deal of antagonism between various camps and fanaticisms that severely limits access to therapies and forms not within their present paradigms.
The High Touch program at The OPEN MIND FOUNDATION walks the line in synergy between all factions in this state of affairs. A High Touch approach to all things is essential, but this does not entail a denial of the efficacy of the scientific advances of she past decades or centuries. Therefore, we have chosen to integrate the services of a great variety of heretofore independent or even conflicting services into a package that offers the best of all worlds into a whole that is simultaneously inexpensive and effective beyond anything experienced before.
The High Touch approach to corporate and individual Wellness embraces a paradigm level above the Traditional Wellness program. Try these A, B, C’s in comparison to present programs:

Access: A High Touch program aggressively pursues access to the broadest possible base of health and empowerment professionals: Acupuncture and EAV, Allopathics, Animal Rehabilitation, Art, Autogenics, Biofeedback, Chiropractics, Community Health, Counseling, Dentistry, Developmental Neurology, Educational Psychology, Emergency Preparedness, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Ergonomics, Estate Planning, Futurism, Gerontology, Herbalism, Homeopathics, Hypnotherapy, Imagineering, Kalos, Laboratory Skills, Materials Science Applications, Massage Therapy, Media Development, Mnemonics, Naturopathics, Nursing, Nutrition, Occupational and Environmental Law, Occupational Medicine, Optometry, Osteopathics, Personal Appearance, Pharmacology, Physical Training, PNI, Podiatry, Primitive Technologies, Psychology, Public Safety and Health, Reiki, Siddha Vaiydics, Social Coordination, Social Psychology, Social Work, Sports Psychology, Tai Chi Chuan, Toxicology, Triom, Urban Biospheres, Wellness Financing, and Work Hardening. 
All clients are expected to act as the head of their personal empowerment and wellness teams, and remain intimately involved in their own quality care.

Behavior: Recognizing that the largest single factor creating the enormous cost of health and wellness care today is personal responsibility, High Touch places great effort in personalized education and directed Behavior Modification. While this is focused on health and empowerment issues such as substance awareness and lifestyle change, the principles are universal and are applicable to job and task improvement as well as personal empowerment. 
We are experts at multiplexing incentive and compensation programs for productive change, in manners specific to the client. No two clients are identical in their potential resources or their population base. We anticipate no possibility of identical programs in non-identical clients.

Cost: In order for a program to be ultimately successful, whether personal, corporate, or national; the bottom line must be worth the effort. Many factors are involved in this effort, of which health care dollar savings are often the lowest in priority. Employee stability, corporate efficiency, lowered turnover, dedication, and sense of family are often of much greater financial benefit than simple health care dollar savings. We at High Torch are so completely confident in the value of our product that we offer u variety of payment options, of which an essentially infinite variety ox permutations are possible and encouraged:
-Percentage of savings. Using cohort studies, meta-analysis, or other professionally accepted methods, High Touch will accept as payment an agreed upon percentage of the saving realized by the client as a result of our activities. In all honesty, this is almost always the most expensive method to the client, though perceived as the most secure since it is baked entirely on performance.
-Up front payment for service. This involves o simple bid for service package that is specific for the client being served.
-Payment in kind. Trades for service or products, Time Dollars exchanges, and other forms of non-cash payments are often preferable to both parties. This method is generally the least expensive payment option, and is generally non-taxable, but negotiations may be resource consuming in their own right..
-Payment at time of service. This service is moderate in cost, cut requires an ongoing flow of cash which can be a bookkeeping nuisance en both sides of the contract. Following the HMO model, usually a client will make a monthly payment to High Touch for services rendered, while individuals make a co-payment of a predetermined nominal amount for every usage of the service.
*All High Touch services are unconditionally guaranteed, and we follow the Oriental payment mode; if we do not deliver as promised, the client has no obligation to pay. And the efficacy of the service is entirely up to the client to determine.

Dedication: High Touch envisions long term relationships in a team sharing environment with all clients. We encourage contact at need with our staff any time of the day or night, weekday, weekends, or holidays. And call us from anywhere at all, worldwide. Our professional triage people are very well trained as Holistic Health Facilitators, and generally hold advanced degrees in this field. At the very least, they are certified Toolbox Therapy practitioners. We will never charge extra for off-hour work or abandon a client in need.

Empowerment: The bottom line of the High Touch program is Empowerment and a return to self sufficiency at every level. Therefore, we will use our stable of experts to evaluate everything a client needs and assist in transformations across the board. Look again at the list if team members under Access and just imagine what we can do for you!
Almost always, participation in our programs involves a number of unusual side benefits: academic credit, volunteer cross sharing, and the opportunity to become involved in processes usually considered out of reach for the “average” worker.
All participants in High Touch programs are considered Members of The OPEN MIND FOUNDATION and are awarded all member privileges, including academic discounts at Utah Virtual University, store and restaurant discounts, facility use, and all other benefits.

First Opinion
The combined clinical, HMO, legal, engineering, and management team at High Touch WEO has come to the unanimous decision that interfacing the High Touch WEO combined Wellness and Empowerment programs with traditional insurance and corporate plans without major restructuring may be quite difficult. For instance, how does High Touch WEO bill for an hour of typical mixed consultation and therapy, when only parts of the hour are covered under even the most progressive if existing insurance plans?

Enter the First Opinion interim proposal. 

Simply put, First Opinion places High Pouch WEO in the position of cost savings and efficiency Consultant, rather than Therapist. Though various therapies, consultations, engineering’s, and eclectic researches are universally employed, the only visible entity to a contracting source is thy High Touch facade. 

High Touch WEO accepts payment based on bottom line cast savings and efficacy only, with tie actual functioning within the “black box” only as visible as the client chooses it to be, just as any other savings and efficiency consultant would be.

When a client discovers a potentially expensive situation, they contract with High Touch WEO First Opinion to create better service with a lower outlay of resources than possible before the consultation. High Touch WEO receives compensation either as fee for service or as a percentage of savings; and only if the results are apparent to all parties involved. 

High Touch WEO 
CORPORATE EMPOWERED WELLNESS PROGRAM

PREVIEW
The corporate Implementation package targets two primary areas of concern: the organization and the individuals therein, usually in a comprehensive three part methodology (other areas cay be identified as the process goes forward in individual cases): 
I.) Major concerns are addressed and recommendations made for those interventions most likely to positively effect the outcome with minimal expenditure of resources. 
II.) Potential interventions are targeted that require allocation of resources but still could result in major net gains for the institution.
III.) Those items which are considered useful from a Wellness point of view but unlikely to result in economically favorable results may take many forms or be dispensed with altogether in selected cases.
The ultimate goal of this program oz a corporate level is to reduce expenses by improving corporate and employee Empowerment states to the point where the need for most medical or injury claims is obviated and such claims as are still manifest are less costly in all respects, while efficiency and creative effectiveness are enhanced. The savings generated by this program will be creatively shared among all involved parties, in a won/win/win/win scenario. Additional bottom line improvements evolve as efficiency and empowerment take hold, employee stress diminishes, and a sense of employee family and caring take hold.

PHASE I 
(Setup and discovery survey)
Group: For the institution, this phase consists of a professional walkthrough and site analysis by the Empowerment team. We videotape, take environmental and medical measurements, request OSHA and company medical records, and do spot interviews of representative employees. Using this information, we generate the three tier recommendation for Wellness improvements on the organizational level:
1.) Items already or nearly in place that may require only minimal effort or reinforcement to make a major impact.
2.) Items that would be simple/cheap/quick to convert that would be highly cost effective.
3.) Items with doubtful cost effectiveness that could be considered in future reconstruction or education.
Individual: For each individual, a comprehensive Empowerment profile will be produced. As far as is feasible, the information for this profile will be generated by the employees themselves, by billing out simple questionnaires, performing simple physical tests, requesting doctor's statements, and se forth. This profile will be confidential as are all medical records. This profile will be used for the purposes of co-payment, premium, deductible, profit sharing, or other program incentives and can be computer interfaced for update at the worksite on a monthly or even bi-weekly basis. 
(Further participation in this process is voluntary on the part of the employees, and is not solicited until after the profiles have been generated and distributed to the employees. It is expected that program enrollment wily be primarily derived from those employees most likely to be able to change their status with guidance and encouragement, thus improving their can retirement packages and cost benefits; and those employees already enjoying a high degree of Wellness and wanting to benefit from their exiting status.)

PHASE II 
(Education and counseling)
During this phase, both the organization and the individual employees are educated in courses of action to take in pursuit of higher Empowerment and Wellness states. The incentives for change are explained (enhanced retirement plans, fringe benefits, vacation days, in-house discounts, direct paybacks, lower premiums, higher productivity, awards, service exchange, etc.), and professional guidance offered on the particulars. 
One monthly 2 hour seminar is offered for the duration of the contract by the High Touch professional team on subjects selected from those chosen during PHASE I in either the organizational or individual areas. Employees wishing to improve their Wellness status according to their contract (and reap the benefits) in the program are required to attend the seminars targeted to their needs. Corporate issues dealt with successfully by the insured business will result in appropriate savings to the client from the insurer. Insurers can be chosen from the High Touch stable or by the client, or as a combination.

PHASE III 
(Implementation and health care)
Once target populations or corporate problems are identified with a continuing or anticipated need for interventionary care, counseling, engineering or construction, predetermined dollar amounts are allocated from the High Touch accounts for this purpose and competitive bidding among qualified professional providers will take place for this service. Usually, this bid will go to an in-house account, but outside bids are welcome. Once bids are awarded, the entire amount awarded is banked against that provider's account, and dispensed immediately as billed by the provider with the agreement of the client shat adequate service has been rendered. The account cannot be overdrawn and the predetermined ceiling will be adhered to, but underutilization results in all concerned parties sharing in the savings. Team approaches to care and construction within the Wellness paradigm is fostered.

The High Touch WEO team will handle catastrophic health intervention or major facility reconstruction when necessary, but works first to reduce the likelihood of such occurrences and provide such triage and counseling as indicated for lowest cost and most effective care; such intensive modes of care are typically reduced over a period of years as empowered lifestyles take hold. Catastrophic care may be handled as presently constituted under the existing plan or au determined from a menu of choices based on available care in the client xerographic area.

All Phases are covered under a single low fee structure usually based on a small dollar amount per employee or family member. These amounts are covered in the accompanying brochure, and will be negotiated as indicated at the time of contract.

HIGH TOUCH WEO PARAMETERS
High Touch WEO, the Wellness Enhancement Organization division of The OPEN MIND FOUNDATION, operates under the following parameters: