Lauren Barkan's Contact Details

Lauren Barkan's Company Details

Open Source Wellness

Oakland, CA, US • 10 - 19 Employees
Healthcare Facility/Healthcare Services

Open Source Wellness is dedicated to transforming health care and health outcomes with the communities that need it most! Representing the next generation of behavioral medicine and operating at the intersection of healthcare and community, Open Source Wellness is a scalable delivery system for the health behaviors underlying individual and population-level health outcomes and costs.Open Source Wellness functions as a "Behavioral Pharmacy." In partnership with clinical healthcare, low-income housing, employers, and communities, we deliver via our signature "Community As Medicine" model while uplifting our universal prescription: MOVE (physical activity) NOURISH (healthy food) CONNECT (social suport) and BE (stress reduction). Open Source Wellness's offering is fundamentally experiential: no classes, lectures, or extensive intakes. Instead, we focus on high-quality interpersonal attention, relationship building, and shared practice in a community setting.Open Source Wellness was founded by two clinical psychologists, Dr. Elizabeth Markle and Dr. Ben Emmert-Aronson, who bridge their healthcare expertise with their deep and transformative experience of intentional community, cooperative living, and social/systems design to manifest paradigm-shifting community interventions for well-being.For a quick overview of what we do, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xwyfg4-0GE