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  • Visiting Bill & Jude Thomas: Connecting the Past, Present, and Future

    By Kathy Hagen, Interim CEO, The Eden Alternative Recently, along with some of the Eden Alternative team and our Board Chair, Angie McAllister, I had the good fortune to spend time with Eden Alternative founders, Dr. Bill and Jude Thomas, at their home on Cayuga Lake, NY. The adventure began by traveling a dirt road…

  • The Groundwork and The Framework Bundle

    By Kristi Doan, Community Builder The Eden Alternative® I am excited to introduce our newest course bundle that includes The Framework: Reveal the Possibilities and The Groundwork: Rethink Your Paradigm. Growing and adjusting as an organization, as our world became highly virtual starting in 2020, pushed us to develop two courses that cover the basics…

  • The Eden Alternative Names Interim CEO, Elects New Board Chair

        The Eden Alternative Names Interim CEO, Elects New Board Chair   The Eden Alternative Board of Directors has appointed Kathy Hagen, MBA, interim CEO for The Eden Alternative.  Kathy has been with The Eden Alternative since January 2011 and has served as Operations Manager, Project Administrator, and since 2021, Head of Business Operations. …

  • The Eden Team Welcomes Tina Taylor

    A Conversation With Our Newest Team Member by Danna Pentes We’re at it again! The Eden Alternative® is growing and changing. Not only did we launch Eden Membership, but we’ve also added a Project Coordinator. Welcome Tina Taylor! Thank you for your thoughtful responses so we can all get to know you. What led you…

  • The Eden Team Continues To Grow

    The Eden Alternative Team Continues to Grow Introducing Evy, Carrie, and Kyrié By Danna Pentes, The Eden Alternative ®   The Eden Alternative team continues to grow, adding three new team members in the Summer of 2022. Longtime Eden Alternative Educator and friend, Evy Cugelman joins us as a Community Builder bringing a wealth of…

  • Sarah Thomas Joins The Eden Board

    Eden 2.0 Continues by Julian Flores, CMO Since the appointment of Patrick Bultema as CEO in 2021, Eden has quietly and quickly modernized into a nimble, future-leaning leader in the Aging Services industry. Today, we are proud to announce the appointment of Sarah Thomas to the Board of Directors; another step on the path towards…

  • Introducing Mel

    We keep growing at The Eden Alternative… by Laura Beck, The Eden Alternative® We are delighted to have another talented and long-standing friend of The Eden Alternative® join our Home Office Team. Welcome Mel Coppola!  As an Eden Guide/Educator, Mel will facilitate educational experiences and support the ongoing growth of our cadre of  Certified Eden…

  • Identity & Intersectionality

    By Laura Beck, The Eden Alternative®   We are more than the sum of our parts. We have an identity crisis in aging services. It’s not about re-branding or finding ourselves. It’s about how willing we are to really see each other and all of the parts that make us who we are. Why bother?…

  • Introducing Kristi and Julian

    We kicked off the new year with the addition of two exceptionally talented people to the Eden Alternative Home Office Team. Enter Kristi Doan and Julian Flores. As a new Community Builder, Kristi consults with and supports organizations implementing our approach. Julian serves on our newly formed leadership team as Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, he will spearhead innovative strategies for broadening our reach and deepening our impact.

    I had the opportunity to chat with Kristi and Julian about their new adventure. Here’s what they had to share…

  • What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You… And Others

    By Laura Beck, The Eden Alternative Years ago, while volunteering each week at a local organization, I met a nice guy, Jim, who always wore the same hat… day in, day out.  The rest of us benignly speculated about the ever-present hat… did he ever take it off?  Did he sleep with it on? We…

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