Our Mission is to build resilience that empowers people to thrive by resolving trauma in peer-communities globally.
The Core Principle on which our mission is based: We honor the innate wisdom of all human beings and their ability to explore their own challenges and experiences within the context of their own culture and worldview and come to their own conclusions about them.
Our Vision, as an outcome of our work, is engaged and productive community members who have been able to put their trauma behind them and move on. Free of the devastating impacts of past trauma, with regained resilience, power of choice, and increased control over their lives, we envision people who have benefited from our programs contributing to overall community resilience and thus increasing the community’s ability to meet their challenges and help build a world that works for everyone.
Our Values: Here's what we consider to be important in achieving our mission:
1. Accessibility... because if it costs money people don't have or is too hard to understand, what good is it?
2. Collaboration... because teamwork is how things get done.
3. Connection… the catalyst of which is listening and authentic, open communication, because it fosters empathy, loving compassion, and community.
4. Person-centeredness… based on recognizing the innate wisdom and fundamental goodness of all humans and that we are each the expert and authority on our own experiences.
5. Respect… born of the unprejudiced recognition of mutual humanity and inherent equality, because superiority and inferiority are barriers to our connection.
6. Restoration of Hope… grounded in both reality and possibility, hope that sparks action, because without hope we are lost.
7. The Spirit of Play… which provides the lightness needed to carry these heavy things.
8. Humility... to manifest and live by each one of these values.