NOHC MOVIE
To watch the NOHC.mov file *Instructions*: Please allow time to load. Make sure you have the quicktime player installed. If you do not have the quicktime player it can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/quicktime.

Put the cd in the cd drive, the computer should ask what you want to do with the file, select “open with quicktime” and click “Ok”.

If the computer does not ask what to do with the file, or if you do not have the “open with quicktime” option, open “my computer” double click on your cd drive then double click on “nohc.mov”

The quick time player window will open up, when it is finished opening click on the triangular play button that is centered on the bottom of the window. (Alt. Version can be clicked here:  nohc2.html )

Challenges and Strengths
We recognize that healing must occur holistically and synergistically on the energetic, physical, environmental, economic, intellectual, emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual levels at once. It must be available to everyone, no matter what race or income.
The challenges we face are precisely our strengths and elucidate the absolute necessity that we fulfill our mission. Our significant challenges include establishing the first, nontraditional, holistic healing center in the Gulfsouth, a pioneering location, serving all races and income ranges, subsidizing the poor, and requiring the contributions of a developing team with disparate viewpoints and skill sets.

The Healing Center Governing Board will be composed of racially diverse businessmen, healers, artists and academics, all with well-considered opinions and perceptions who share our commitment. It is the diversity of worldviews and talents among the members of the Governing Board that will assure our extraordinary mission and vision will be accomplished. Additionally, we are aware that we will need to make significant outreach efforts into the community.

City Revitalization Impact
The Healing Center together with the planned revitalization of the St Roch Market has implications far beyond the immediate neighborhood. Intense development at this intersection (Universal Furniture and St. Roch Market) including the adjacent and vacant Colton School will catalyze the revitalization of the entire St.Claude/Rampart corridor. This corridor is the front door to the French Quarter, Marigny, Bywater and Upper Nine neighborhoods on the riverside and the Iberville, Treme, St. Roch and St. Claude neighborhoods on the lake side.
St Claude can become an eclectic and vibrant Magazine St. which 25 years ago was in the abandoned and underutilized condition that St Claude is today.. St.Claude/Rampart occupies the same relationship to the river on the downtown side of the historic city as Magazine does on the uptown side. MORE

Description of The Healing Center
Housed within the Healing Center are five complementary and synergistically interrelated “silos” each of which, in their own unique way, crystallize the Center’s mission—to tend to the mind, body, and environmental health of the resilient citizens of New Orleans. MORE

Other Tenants
An assortment of complimentary, health-related tenants will use the remaining space in the building. To date we have received positive interest from WWOZ, the local community-owned radio station, The Regen Group, which develops home-based regenerative energy designs, The Vitality Blend Café, a juice bar/health café, The New Orleans Police 5th District Sub-station, which would contribute significantly to the Center’s security.

The entire Center works synergistically between silos. The uniquely conceived NOHC will provide immediate availability, within the same facility, to a variety of services offered concomitantly, all of which strive to eliminate the causes of illness—physical and emotional. While the NOHC offers integrating paths to a balance of mind and body and, as a multidimensional institution, is itself an integrated balance of form and function: in the same way all the healing modalities—Rolfing, Shiatsu—symbiotically complement each other, they, collectively, interact with the physical, exercise components—Yoga, Tai Chi—which in turn augment the educational component’s efforts, through lectures and seminars, to clarify the impact of mental, spiritual perspectives and life style on personal health. All of these then focus on the community grocery store which encourages appropriate diet while the health food restaurant demonstrates how nutritional food may be prepared. To embrace all of these synergistic therapeutic systems will be a fine art component displaying the themed work of community artists celebrating multi-cultural images of the struggle to achieve mind, body and spiritual equipoise.

Conclusion
The Healing Center will bridge the gap between polarized aspects of our society and culture, bringing together profit, non-profit, public and private business models, government and grassroots organizations, Black/ White/ Hispanic/ Asian, rich/ poor, male/female, tourist/local, Uptown/Downtown, spiritualist/police, and Eastern/Western approaches to healing. It will do so naturally and organically. The healing of these polarities has already begun in the planning process as diverse members of the community come together in trust and positively in order to make the Center manifest. As people from all walks of life begin to work together, they get to know each other as fellow human beings, all committed to the improvement of our common human condition.

We come together to create healing on every level for every individual, for our community and our city. New Orleans is a unique city, but it is not unique in its need for healing. If we can heal New Orleans (and we will, the healing has already begun), the most toxic of places, we can apply our model to other communities and cities, and eventually our world.

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