About Us
The first farmers in Arkansas built their homesteads with broad know-how, rough tools, and the sweat from what two people could carry by hand. This farmhouse was re-built to make an old truth new again: greater change comes when we work together. Sharing the load gets a job done, sharing ideas seeds progress.
BlakeSt embodies some lofty principles and big goals: to be well rested, well fed, and well informed. To disconnect from work. To consider differing views. To pour a great cocktail. To both hear a great album and have the quiet space to meditate. To improve our backstroke… or maybe just get that first chin-up.
It is ambitious — anything worth doing usually is.
It’s also simple: we support you, and your neighbor, in the pursuit of a personal best. What can we help you carry?
Progress, in any fashion, is honorable.
Values
Personal Best
Good health, clarity of mind, and a degree of camaraderie are foundational human needs. Two thousand years ago philosophers perfected the notion that mind, body, and soul must each be developed to ensure not simply survival, but a life lived to its fullest potential. Today we’d call that your personal best.
Community Pillar
There are few roofs in our culture that shelter thinkers, athletes, artists, and mothers who just need a moment to themselves (fewer entities still that recognize those could all be one person). We’re missing places that encourage expert and beginner alike to play lightly with ideas — between reps or between the next round of drinks.
At our dinner table or in our pool, in the library or in a yoga class, you find neighbors, new friends, experts from other walks of life, and hosts ready to lend a hand. To join BlakeSt is to join a crew founded in the principle that we go farther, together.
Greater Good
Be it spinning a record or spinning a yarn over lunch, co-mingled events and chance encounters often lead to new ideas. Such diverse understandings beget inspiration, seeding the potential for positive change.
Community Norms
BlakeSt encourages Members from all different backgrounds to join and look for a shared common ground of:
Exhibit a willingness to ‘play lightly with ideas,’ keeping an open mind and suspending judgment
Share a desire to pursue their personal best — not perfection — and recognize the honor of such a pursuit in others
Actively engage, or desire to be engaged, in their community
Foster the mutual trust and friendship inherent in good camaraderie
Value equality and stand against racism, hate, and social injustice
Wellness
At BlakeSt we believe in a holistic approach to wellness and place equal importance on physical, mental, emotion, and intellectual well-being. We take time to appreciate the small moments, breathe deeply, care for others, create positive habits, and work on our physical health. Wellness is an intentional mindset, and we seek to help our Members create a space for wellness in their lives.
BlakeSt Team
A level of Membership in itself, our talented Team shares the values of BlakeSt and its Members. The BlakeSt Team seeks to break down barriers as opposed to building them, to connect rather than classify and is united by the crossroads of experience. Get to know our Team Leaders here.