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About
Listening
Our intention at
Listening, The Barre Integrated Health Center, is to increase the well-being of
the community by promoting access to healthcare and encouraging self-education.
Located in a large, beautiful historic house adjacent to Barre Common, we offer
the services of a group of skilled and experienced healers from a variety of
complementary and allopathic medicines. Our intention is to be partner/guide
with our clients, working with them to explore what works for their unique
situation and what will help them to enhance their enjoyment of lie at all
levels--physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The close proximity of many
healers allows easy referrals and the ability to plan a course of treatments
that best suits the individual.
At the heart of the
healing work of each practitioner is the intention to listen and to encourage
the art of listening. To listen means to stop, even in the midst of our busy
lives, and to be alertly aware. We can all listen to each other, to nature, and
most of all to ourselves. It is at this place of listening, with awareness to
our own inner voice of wisdom, that healing and transformation take place.
Listening is a
community center, open to all, not just those needing individual appointments.
We offer a library, bookstore, cafe, and workshops and classes. Our intention is
to foster community through learning and exploration.
Listening, The Barre Integrated Health Center, is a non-profit corporation whose
mission is to provide ease of access to complementary care and to provide
community education on health and self-care. We accept tax-deductible donations
and grants for this mission.
Our Logo
We chose the gingko leaf as our logo because it is the oldest living plant
species. It has both male and female parts in one plant and is used by both
western and eastern cultures as a healing herb. It is used to promote clarity
and awareness. Therefore, we found the leaf of this extraordinary but ordinary
leaf to be the perfect logo for our Center.
The form of the leaf on the front of the brochure is very joyous with the stem
aimed at the earth and the veins of the leaf reaching heavenward. It is both
peaceful and alert, just the right listening pose.
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History of
the Center
The seeds for
LISTENING The Barre Integrated Health Center were planted in 1995 when Mick
Huppert, Director of Community Education at UMass Medical Center, Dr. Dave
Davis, Family practitioner in Hubbardston, MA, Joseph Goldstein and Sharon
Salzburg, founders of Insight Meditation Society in Barre, and Dedie King,
acupuncturist in Hardwick and Amherst, began meeting to discuss the idea of a
complementary care health center in Central Massachusetts. Various approaches
were analyzed and Mick Huppert brought in other people to do a feasibility
study. After a couple years of grappling with the inherent difficulties, the
project lost steam.
Not wanting to let go of her vision of a center dedicated to the idea of
partnership with practitioner and client, the idea of self-care on all levels of
physical, emotional and spiritual, and the concept of discovering one's own
wisdom and connection with nature, Dedie kept writing and talking with people
about the vision. In 1998 Dr. Bruce Lockhart moved to the area and was
interested in the concept. Bruce and Dedie both wanted the Center to be located
in Barre in order to be near the Insight Meditation Society.
The following spring, Bruce
and Dedie reconnected with Elizabeth Coe who on her own was also interested in
the idea of an integrated health center in Barre. Elizabeth's resourcefulness
and organization skills were the spark that ignited the mission into reality.
The beautiful Houghton House
just off the common in Barre Center was purchased in the summer of 1999.
Renovations were made to include a beautiful yoga studio in the back lot, extra
treatment rooms created, a ramp and accessible bathroom added, a classroom and
porch added, as well as many other changes with Elizabeth acting as chief
contractor. The small core of practitioners quickly swelled to 12 talented and
experienced healthcare people and regular meetings began.
Listening the Barre Integrated Health Center had its opening on January 15,
2000.
We also welcome tax-deductible grants to be used for community health education.
You can call the Center at (978) 355-3501.
Founders:
Elizabeth
Coe
Dedie
King
Dr. Bruce
Lockhart
Board of Directors:
Dedie
King, President
Kathleen
Hardie, Treasurer
Karen
Davis, Clerk
Mick
Huppert
Bruce
Lockhart
Staff:
Dedie
King, Clinical Director
Jocelyn
Langer, Executive Director
Renee
Malowitz, Administrator
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