WHO WE ARE
IDEAL Society, the Institute for the Development of Education, Arts and Leisure is located in Jaffray, British Columbia, on 480 beautiful acres of land in the Canadian Rockies. It all began in 1993 when Dr. Natacha Kolesar, the founder of IDEAL Society, launched an educational project with a group of parents including teachers, artists, health-care workers, musicians and other professionals. Together, they developed programs and activities that encompass many branches of education.
In 1996, IDEAL Society was incorporated as a not-for-profit Society under the provincial law of British Columbia, Canada, and six years later, IDEAL-SPRING International Foundation, a United States 501(c)(3) tax exempt corporation, was created to promote and fund IDEAL ’s activities.
Meeting Hall IDEAL Society
In July of 2004, IDEAL Society was accepted as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
In 2005, IDEAL Society was designated a Non-Governmental Organization associated with the Department of Public Information at the United Nations.
OUR GOALS
• Communicate a vision of humanity as one family
• Foster moral, social and aesthetic values through educational programs, artistic, leisure and travel activities
• Establish local, regional, national and international prenatal and perinatal educational programs, birth centres and youth centres
• Initiate local, regional, national and international seminars, artistic musical and cross cultural activities
• Develop a way of life that embraces the laws of nature and respects the earth as a living organism
IDEAL Society offers a wide range of knowledge in the fields of self-development and human behaviour, the arts, natural health, organic gardening, educational travel and leisure activities.
Due to the success of our programs, IDEAL Society intends to share its experience, especially in prenatal education, with ther educational organizations such as public and private schools, universities, alternative schools and independent youth and adult education facilities.
BRANCHES OF IDEAL SOCIETY
To reach our goals, we have created the IDEAL Research Centre to serve the global community by sharing our experiments and studies in many fields including education, health, psychology, energy production and consumption, and new concepts in housing development.
Ecosun Development and Construction was created in 2006 to serve western Canada and more specifically the East Kootenays. Ecosun functions as a general contractor offering services in residential and commercial construction, renovation, interior and exterior finishing and back-hoe service.
Ecosun’s priorities are the respect of natural resources and local development regulations. (more information in Construction)
In response to our growing number of music students, the I.M.A.G.E. School Association was created in 2006. I.M.A.G.E. functions under the umbrella of IDEAL and the music faculty offers voice, violin, piano, guitar, flute, percussion and piano classes to students of all ages. Lessons are taught on a weekly basis on sight at IDEAL Society and at the Fernie Academy See. See the I.M.A.G.E. School page for more information.
We are pleased to announce we have started the development of a Ideal Wellness that will offer a synergetic approach to health. Geared to increase the wellbeing of individuals, couples, pregnant women and families, it will provide counseling, prenatal advice and preventive health care in our beautiful mountain environment. See the web page for more info.
In 2007, IDEAL Society created a company called Eco-Seawater which is introducing a new product to Western Canada, the Quinton Ocean Plasma. A food supplement made from 100% micro filtered natural sea water, Quinton purifies and revitalizes the body and is 100% assimilable.
