Stage 1: Concept Design (2025)
1. Understand (Completed) ✔️
Period: 📅 March 6 to April 30, 2025
Season: 🌱 Spring 2025
Goal: 🎯 Identify and define the specific problem that the initiative will seek to address.
3 Main Tasks 📋:
- Examine Solution Spaces
- Select priorities
- Conduct discovery research
Status: (Completed) ✔️
2. Design (Completed) ✔️
Period: 📅 May 1 to June 16, 2025
Season: 🌱 Spring 2025
Goal: 🎯 Set the design parameters that will support our proposal
3 Main Tasks 📋:
- Selecting and structuring the type of proposal
- Determining eligibility criteria
- Establishing assessment criteria
Status: (Completed) ✔️
3. Proposal (Completed) ✔️
Period: 📅 June 17, 2025
Season: ☀️ Summer 2025
Goal: 🎯 Align Proposal with PMWI
3 Main Tasks 📋:
- Setting timelines, including stages
- Undertake stakeholder identification
- Submitting Proposal to PMWI
Status: (Completed) ✔️
4. Semi-Finalist Announced 🎉 ✔️
During Fall 🍂 On December 1st, 2025, Ameno Wellness Society was announced as one of 20 semi-finalists in the Producer Mental Wellbeing Initiative (PMWI), receiving the Challenge Prize from Impact Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Prize Won: $50,000
Stage 2: Proof of Concept (2026)
1. Understand (In Process) ⚙️
Period: 📅 December 21, 2025 to March 20, 2026
Season: 🥶 Winter 2025 into 2026
Goal: 🎯 Identify and define specific problems that our concept tools will seek to address
Tasks 📋:
- Create a communications and engagement plan including the website
- Develop the application form and co-creator guide
- Open applications to participants (co-creators)
- 🌎Knowledge Exhange with Blue Zone Global Peers
- Create Advisory Panel
Status: (In Process) ⚙️
2. Design (Pending) ⏳
Period: 📅 March 21 to June 20, 2026
Season: 🌱 Spring 2026
Goal: 🎯 Co-Design Modules
Tasks 📋:
- Advisory Panel sessions
- Co-creator sessions
- Launch Wireframe
Status: (Pending) ⏳
3. First Test in Nova Scotia (Pending) ⏳
Period: 📅 June 21 to July 31, 2026
Season: ☀️ Summer 2026
Goal: 🎯 Proof of Summer Module
Tasks 📋:
- Pre-Alpha Unit testing
- First Test of Summer Module
Status: (Pending) ⏳
4. Proof of Concept (Pending) ⏳
Period: 📅 August 1 to September 21, 2026
Season: ☀️ Summer 2026
Goal: 🎯 Validate the concept and submit for Stage 3
3 Main Tasks:
- Analyze Pilot Data: Aggregate feedback from the Nova Scotia test group (user engagement, stress reduction metrics, and qualitative testimonials).
- MVP Iteration: Implement critical "must-have" fixes or features identified during the summer test to polish the prototype.
- Submission: Compile the "Proof of Concept" report and the "Implementation Plan" for national scaling, and submit to Impact Canada.
5. Finalist Announcement (Pending) ⏳
Period: 📅 (Estimated August)
Season: ☀️ Summer 2026
Goal: 🎯 Secure $100,000 Prize & Greenlight for Scale