WellSpring has sprung

Welcome to the blog for WellSpring.co.nz

The site is a place for people to discover more about wellness and personal growth.

I launched it in 2003 as a way to help practitioners and the public to learn about the various options offered in areas that are often called complementary health or alternative. I am not a practitioner. My background ins marketing and publishing. My motivation was to help my then partner, a chiropractor, to launch her business here in New Zealand when she returned from the United States. It seemed a waste to simply build another web-site so I created a portal style site that could benefit many users and offer a greater service for consumers as well.

One of the ideas that I felt was important was to create a WellSpring Code for clients of the various practitioners to use in order to ensure that they receive care that is both safe and value for money. It embraces ideas like informed consent and consumer law and is fair to both honest, qualified practitioners and their clients.

The practices listed range literally from A-Z (Accupuncture to Zero Balancing). Practices are described and, in many cases, listings of New Zealand practitioners are shown so that a practitioner can be found. In the coming months the free practitioner listings will probably be deleted and replaced with another means of locating practices. It is a useful service but difficult to keep up to date (I run the site alone, so it is not practical).

There are other changes I have planned for the year ahead including an innovative magazine style section and a major redesign to bring the site up to date, make it easier and more pleasing to use.

If you are looking for information about Wellness and Personal Growth I hope you'll visit WellSpring.

If you are a practitioner (anywhere in the world) and have an interesting story to share with either people who use your services (or who might) - or have had an interesting experience with a particular form of care please feel free to mailto:info@wellspring.co.nz?subject=A shared experience from the WellSpring blog share them with me

In this blog I will talk about my experiences with the site, share stories and information that come to me from the WellSpring community and new ideas that arise for practitioners to grow the understanding and appreciation of their form of care.