An opportunity to apply for a grant was made known to me, and immediately I thought of BodyTalk Access, knowing it is a powerful tool that can easily be taught, learned and used. And for the small investment in time and money, many people can have lifelong, and even miraculous benefits.
Through a series of conversations it became clear my pursuing this was meant to happen. The encouragement and contact referrals helped inspire me to reach deep and to “show up” and do something I had never done before. That alone (my following through on this vision) was a miracle.
Thank you again to all of those that helped in making this happen. Your encouragement and contacts helped give me the energy to move forward.
The grant proposal is below. If you are a BodyTalker looking to do anything like this please use whatever text is helpful.
I will keep this site posted with any new info I receive regarding the Prize.
Mollie Yunker
Let the Healing Begin!
Live United Social Innovation Prize
10. Abstract: What is the significance of the innovation? 50 words.
Taking a proven way of self empowerment for individuals and applying to a community by having multiple BodyTalk ACCESS classes simultaneously – thus influencing a critical mass. School-based communities will learn a simple affordable wellness program, healing themselves and their communities!
BodyTalk ACCESS (hereafter referred to as ACCESS)
11. What Building Block(s) to a good life does this innovation address?
Education – yes; Income – yes; Health – yes.
12. Statement of issues/problem. What issue or problem related to one or more building blocks does the innovation address: Who will benefit from this solution (250 words)
Learning disabilities, chronic health issues, obesity, violence, and stress are Health, Income and Education issues.
Stressed individuals make more mistakes, have poor learning outcomes and lowered immune systems. They experience more personal pain and conflicts, thus reducing productivity and draining the resources and energy of the individuals, schools, businesses and community.
Poor health hampers the ability to earn an income, inhibits potential for learning, adds stress to family and friends.
The chronically ill, emotionally challenged, and learning disabled require teachers to take extraordinary time away from teaching.
Individual’s receiving ACCESS show significant changes in health: reduced stress, strengthened immune systems, balanced physical structures, and enhanced whole brain communication which supports the individual on all levels.
Testimonial: After two weeks of having her class do an ACCESS technique, a parent called saying “my 5-year old daughter is no longer stuttering!”
The Fast Aid routine helps the body recover from all sorts of minor to major injuries by shifting the body out of a state of shock and trauma back into the growth and healing mode. Fast Aid can be used instead of or while waiting for professional help to arrive.
Testimonial: Laura was called at 11am to take her daughter home, as were three other parents, for the flu. Laura did ACCESS on her daughter 4x and by 6pm she was playing and ready for dinner. While her daughter returned to school the next day, the other children were out for several days.
This small investment has a great return for the community.
13. The Innovation: How does the innovation address underlying causes, reduce needs, or develop new and innovative ways to meet human needs? What logistics or resources are involved in making the new idea work: 250 wds
ACCESS is based on the comprehensive foundation of the BodyTalk System. The five powerful balancing techniques, including the Fast Aid routine, have a comprehensive effect on overall health and effectively address up to 60% of what a person or family encounters in a month.
The ACCESS routine helps re-establish lines of communication within the bodymind. This helps the individual have more resiliency towards stress and other factors that are detrimental to long term health. ACCESS can be done once a day or more, depending on need.
The techniques balance the brain, the metabolic processes of the body and the immune system, and helps to balance the physical structure of the body.
ACCESS sessions take 10 minutes and require no equipment or additional learning, providing powerful tools for a lifetime to use on yourself, family and friends. This is a huge return on a small investment.
When health is maintained and improved, illness is reduced: fewer medications, visits to doctors, therapists, lost school time, etc.
Testimonials: Nine weeks since taking ACCESS, I am happy to report that the pain, stiffness and swelling in my hands has nearly gone away. Myke
Over the phone I talked my Mom through the Cortices technique I saw on the video. She was having a seizure which was working its way up her body and it stopped midstream and they have not returned. Ellen
Learn the Cortices technique: http://bodytalksystem.com/learn/access/cortices.cfm
Resources needed: Instructors’ fees and housing, manuals and certificates, facilitation of proposal and Instruction days, and follow-up reviews.
14. Effectiveness of the Innovation. What are the specific results or tangible difference the innovation will make to the issues, area of social concern, community or people the innovation is designed to improve (150 words)
A one day ACCESS class is a lifetime healthcare package, in steps easily shared.
Realizing the ease of use and seeing results will shift overall perceptions and attitudes. More clarity of thought means being less reactive, resulting in less violence and more energy for realizing potential.
ACCESS Technicians have tools to:
Increase focus & attention, reducing learning disorders and disruptions
Relax the nervous system
Improve immune systems, reducing sick days
Improve injury healing
Alleviate repetitive stress injuries
Improve sleep and energy levels
Respond to pressure with more ease
Improve performance & output
Reduce the need for medications, medical care, therapy, saving time and money
Improve structural alignment, reducing muscular tension and painful or limited mobility
Support first aid emergencies (reducing liability)
Build morale & good will
and more… the results can be astounding!
ACCESS is an affordable solution that supports everyone long-term, through all the environmental ups and downs.
15. Innovative and Adds Learning: What aspects of the innovation are distinctive? What elements are original, creative, unusual or have never been done before? How can learning be collected from the innovation and used in developing other efforts? (150 words)
ACCESS is safe, fast and effective, requires only six hours of training, and children and adults can learn it easily.
By having multiple ACCESS trainings simultaneously, a critical mass will have a supportive environment to practice and ask questions. With everyone “getting it”, an exponential shift of consciousness and health can occur quickly.
Testimonial: … by the end of the class, the students exhibited an understanding of their interconnectedness with each other. The majority of students do not have experience with hands-on healing or bodywork… gratifying to see them experience how easy these techniques are to learn and how powerful they are. Watching the lights go on in their eyes, realizing that they now have helpful tools they can use on themselves and their loved ones, is a wonderful sight.”
Just one child changed transforms a classroom, a family, a world.
16. Finance: What sources of revenue and what major expenses are anticipated for this innovation? What minimum capital requirements are needed to stage progressive growth of this idea? Is this a nonprofit or a for profit venture (250 words)
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This not a source of direct revenue. Rather it is an opportunity to have better physical, mental and emotional health for individuals as well as the environments they live and work in, creating a savings of time and money, and an improved quality of life.
With successful learning outcomes, well-being, and non-violence, students go into higher education, often receiving scholarships, contributing to higher earnings, creating a healthy educated community.
Major expenses:
- Three ACCESS Instructors teaching three days: $7,500 – $9,000
- Manuals and certificates: $7.77/person
- Facilitation and coordination of ACCESS Instruction days: $400
To maintain the excitement and ensure proper technique, I recommend follow up to observe, answer questions, and share testimonials: $50/hr for two hours. Recommending two times per class the first month and one time per class the following month.
- Follow-up with nine classes three times: $1,350
Progressive growth can be handled by JCPS hiring an ACCESS Instructor and supporting teachers, PE Instructors and counselors in their ACCESS membership.
The International BodyTalk ACCESS Membership level, designed to provide further resources and community, includes an international discussion forum and weekly newsletter: $30/yr per person. May be able to negotiate a volume discount.
Instructor training: ~$6555/person and a year or more attending BodyTalk Modules and then ACCESS Teacher Training. Anyone coming through this program will be able to do much more for the schools, students and faculty than what is available as an ACCESS Technician.
Not a non-profit, AND everything is being offered at a reduced fee.
17. Implementation: List the steps to launching or advancing your innovation. Be clear on who, what, when, where. Who is the primary audience for the innovation and what is the plan to disseminate it? (500 words).
I have started a conversation with JCPS to implement ACCESS. The Wellness Magnet schools are ideal as they are designing a curriculum for wellness.
The Steps: continue the conversation with JCPS and work with the Wisdom Council to refine the proposal so it may benefit even more people.
Mollie Yunker will facilitate, coordinate and do follow up.
The primary audience is a school-based community: students, parents, teachers and faculty. This will benefit the most people in the shortest amount of time, creating a significant difference in a population.
I recommend training students in 6th grade and above. ACCESS will improve their mental, emotional and physical performance through the challenging years of puberty. And younger students can easily learn the Cortices technique. See the video online.
Testimonial: …an eighth grader was having troubles in school and with his homework. After being balanced a couple of times,… his grades went from D’s and F’s to As and B’s.
Trainings can take place at the schools. The trainings are six hours of instruction with lots of hands-on practice. Each ACCESS student is given a well designed manual including photos demonstrating the techniques. The hands-on practice sessions in the training often have participants reporting immediate shifts. At the end of the training each graduate receives an ACCESS Technician certificate.
The breakdown: Three ACCESS Instructors will train ~225 people, with ~25 students per Instructor’s class, implemented in one day classes over a period of three successive days = nine classes total.
The costs: $11,000 – $12,500 includes three Instructors for three successive days, facilitation, manuals and certificates, and suggested follow up.
Costs include discounted manuals, certificates, Instructor and Facilitator fees.
Not included is Instructor transportation (there are 4 Instructors within a days drive), Instructor housing, and shipping costs of the manuals and certificates. Additionally one or more ACCESS Technicians are needed per class to assist. There are currently sixteen in Louisville that may volunteer their time.
The market cost of these classes and follow up would be $30,015 (~62% savings)
Testimonial: … one of my students came running crying: ‘It wasn’t my fault’ and pointed towards another student holding his shoulder in pain, ‘I didn’t see Michael and I ran him over, and he fell on a tree root. He’s really hurting!’ A typical case for Fast Aid! All the kids in 4th grade had already learned ACCESS, so I started to give him Fast Aid.
All the others stood around, I could feel their desire to be of some help – they all started eagerly tapping out their Cortices to Michael’s shoulder. There we all stood: Me giving Michael Fast Aid, the kids tapping out their Cortices. After the first round Michael noted, obviously pleased: ‘Teacher, the pain has totally gone!’ …the students were amazed and relieved that everything was okay again. The combined helpfulness of the ‘team’ touched me deeply and I was pleased to see that they experienced their own ability to help themselves and others in emergencies. MK, Austria
18. Inclusive Attractor: How does the innovation have the power to draw people and resources? How does it offer opportunities for people to partner, give, advocate, volunteer, champion? How does the innovation involve and connect to the diversity of the community? (150 words)
Individuals receiving ACCESS are more vital and balanced, living a life beyond survival and daily duties, able to interact with compassion and able to offer more energy to an individual or cause.
Providing this self care program supports the development of human potential. Individuals will be taking health and well-being, their own and those around them, into their own hands, allowing for collaboration and partnership in maintaining and improving health in all its forms.
Self-esteem and a sense of accomplishment are the values necessary for creating and maintaining a healthy, educated, non-violent, cooperative community.
BT ACCESS Technicians can:
- give Access sessions to anyone, especially those compromised with health and or financial stress
- coordinate or host group ACCESS sessions, presentations, and any BodyTalk class
- Technicians can become members of the ACCESS BodyTalk Association, creating bonds with others all over the world
Anyone can teach the Cortices technique.
19. Scalable and Sustainable: Although the innovation may start off small, what is the projected path to growth? How is the innovation designed to be lasting/ongoing and generate its own resources? (150 words)
Fostering a healthy and intelligent community is not a “small” act; possibilities for improvements in Health, Education and Income are exponential.
To maintain the excitement and ensure proper technique:
- classes spend 10 minutes daily with everyone doing ACCESS on themselves
- follow up to observe and correct technique, answer questions, and share testimonials
- Schools can use health and academic improvements to promote their school.
Sustainability: JCPS can hire an ACCESS Instructor. Teachers, Counselors and PE Instructors become ACCESS members/Instructors.
Ideas to make this and future ACCESS trainings possible:
- JCPS help fund teacher training
- parents contribute toward training
- funds from other sources
- open the classes to the public, charging the market fee
- students offer sessions to the community for donations
The resources are improved Health, Education and Income for a minimal investment in time and money, exponentially impacting a community for a lifetime.
20. Idea origin/status: Whose idea is this? List the team member name(s). When was the idea first conceived? What is the current status of the innovation? (150-word limit)
Idea Innovator: Mollie Yunker, Certified BodyTalk Practitioner.
Team members are BodyTalkers located around the western hemisphere helping with the writing of the proposal. Friends have been instrumental in making connections to JCPS.
The idea to propose was immediate when Howard Mason mentioned the Social Innovation Prize and the three Building Blocks. ACCESS is an obvious answer to address the Building Blocks in a fun, self empowering way, especially benefitting the students with life long tools for health and well being.
While sharing the seed of the proposal, the idea to make it a part of the Wellness Magnet schools came from a conversation with Virginia Judd, Foundation Director at Humana.
I am planning on getting my ACCESS Instructor certification soon, making myself qualified to teach when the proposal wins and is implemented.
The status: Plans need to be made with JCPS before scheduling Instructors and implementing the proposal.