about us
vision
WaysMeet provides care for body, mind, and spirit that is:
* compassionate
WaysMeet practitioners, teachers, and facilitators are respectful of the preferences and responsive to the values of the people whom we serve. We bring to our work at WaysMeet our own life experiences, our intuition, our creativity and our careful listening. Believing that we all have the capacity to be sources of healing for ourselves and others, we offer our guidance and support to each other and to those for whom we provide care.
* competent
WaysMeet practitioners combine skills and knowledge about conventional approaches to health and disease with specific training in one or more alternative modalities. WaysMeet teachers and workshop facilitators bring extensive experience in their various fields to their offerings. Valuing both reflection and research, we serve as a resource for further study of the methods we offer and for the education of future health care professionals.
* complementary
WaysMeet practitioners offer approaches that complement the care provided by physicians and other health care providers. To ensure integration of all aspects of your health care, we pledge prompt and clear communication with you and, with your permission, with the others involved in your care.
* community-oriented
We believe that healing happens in community. We work together and are eager to collaborate with others interested in health care and education. In addition to opportunities for individual consultation and treatment, WaysMeet offers classes and workshops that bring people together for mutual sharing and support. We seek creative ways to work with groups and organizations in the service of healing our families, our communities, and the wider world.
communication
WaysMeet is committed to clear and open communication. We strive to make information about our services as accessible as possible and to provide easy ways for individuals to inquire about our offerings. On your first visit to WaysMeet, we will ask you to provide information on the best way for us to contact you and to let us know how you wish us to communicate with your other health care providers.
The WaysMeet Notice of Privacy Practices is available for your review. Any revisions will be posted on this website. This Notice provides a detailed description of the allowed uses and disclosures of your protected health information, as well as of other rights you have regarding this information. Copies are available in the Waysmeet waiting room and in each treatment room. You may obtain your own copy at the time of your visit or by written request to WaysMeet, 122 Main Street, Berea KY 40403.
Please understand that WaysMeet has no receptionist or office staff. WaysMeet practitioners and teachers give full attention to the individuals with whom they are working at any given time. WaysMeet is not able to respond to urgent messages or needs. For emergencies, please call 911. For other immediate health needs, please contact your conventional health care provider.
There are a variety of ways for individuals to contact WaysMeet.
For general information on WaysMeet services, email info@waysmeet.net. Contact information is provided on the website for each member of the WaysMeet collective. In most cases, it is possible to email or phone individuals directly about scheduling or canceling appointments. Messages may not be checked daily, however, and it may take as long as 3 days to receive a response to an inquiry.
Remember that email is not entirely secure, although WaysMeet members will take every precaution to protect privacy. Email communication should not be used for private health information. Email correspondence may be printed and placed in medical records for documentation purposes.
The WaysMeet telephone number is 859-986-0098. Messages may be left at this number 24 hours a day. In general, messages will be checked daily and relayed to the appropriate individual. You should expect a response within 3 days.
name
WaysMeet is a word that has been used for years in the British Isles as the name for a house or building at an intersection of roads. It reflects our interest in bringing together diverse approaches to healing.
logo
Our logo is based upon a traditional quilt pattern, Endless Chain, listed in Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns as block #1278 and first published in 1976 in the Progressive Farmer. It is similar to older patterns such as Job's Tears and Rocky Road to Kansas, all derived from Double Wedding Ring like patterns first used in the early 1800s. In choosing this logo, we honor our quilting foremothers' creativity and practicality. We selected this particular pattern to echo the flow, openness, and sense of elements coming together that we bring to our work at WaysMeet. We appreciate the wonderful way in which Sara Thilman of Flying High Design translated out ideas into images and developed the WaysMeet logo and website design. Thanks to Patrick Flannery-Reilly for his assistance with photographs for this site.
location
WaysMeet Healing Arts Center is located on College Square in the heart of downtown Berea, 35 miles south of Lexington Kentucky. For map and driving directions, see below.
WaysMeet waiting rooms, offices, and treatment rooms are located at 122 Main Street, second floor, just down from the
Boone Tavern Hotel.
Entrances to WaysMeet's College Square suites are located about midway in the Square. The door to WaysMeet is right between the doors to Berea Coffee and Tea and College Square Pharmacy. Enter either from Main Street or from the patio on the Short Street side of the Square. An elevator is available next to the Short Street entrance. Please notify us ahead of time, by calling 859/986-0098, if you will require the use of the elevator. The WaysMeet InnerSpace is located along with the office suites upstairs at 122 Main Street.
The WaysMeet Healing Arts Center GreenSpace is also accessible off Jackson Street. Look for the big windows facing Jackson Street and across from the Boone Tavern parking lot.
You will find ample street parking nearby, including a handicapped space on Main Street in front of the Berea College Bookstore. There is also free parking in the lots across from the Log House Crafts Gallery and behind Boone Tavern Hotel. Bicycle racks are conveniently located around both of the WaysMeet buildings.
When you visit WaysMeet, we encourage you to take time to see our
beautiful community. The
Berea College
campus surrounds College Square.
Information and maps are available and tours leave regularly from the Berea College Visitor Center located towards Boone Tavern in the Square. ArtSpace, home of the Berea Arts Council, located a few doors from WaysMeet, has information on the many studios, galleries, and shops nearby.
Berea is located 35 miles south of Lexington, Kentucky. To obtain driving directions from your location to WaysMeet at 122 Main Street, visit
MapQuest
.
From I-75, take exit 77 and follow the directions to Berea.
Proceed east on KY 595 (Walnut Meadow Road), passing the Kentucky Artisan Center on the right.
Continue on 595 for approximately two miles to the traffic light at the intersection of KY 595 and Ellipse Street. A "Berea College" stone sign will be on your right across the intersection.
Continue up the hill on 595 to the traffic light at the intersection with US 25. The Berea College campus will be on both sides. College Square will be straight ahead, between Main Street, Short Street, Center Street (US 25) and Prospect Street (KY 21).
Continue up the hill on KY 595 to the traffic light at the intersection with US 25. The Berea College campus will be on both sides. College Square will be straight ahead, with green awnings, stretching between Main Street (KY 595), Center Street (US 25), Short Street, and Prospect Street (KY 21). WaysMeet's upstairs suites are in the middle of the Square.
For convenient parking, turn left at the traffic light and then right at the first possible right, in less than half a block (just past PapaLeno's) onto Short Street. You will see the WaysMeet entrance on the right in less than half a block, set back from the first patio, across from the intersection with Jackson Street. Our green door is between the entrances to College Square Pharmacy and Berea Coffee & Tea. You may turn left onto Jackson Street to enter the parking lot behind Boone Tavern or the other lot down the street on the left.
WaysMeet's GreenSpace is also accessible off Jackson Street. Look for the vertical WaysMeet banner and big windows facing Jackson Street and across from the Boone Tavern parking lot.
