Our Goal: Everything Not David
The IDEAS Institute is a non-profit whose main goal is making the wisdom of experts across a diversity of disciplines available to those looking for the next level of personal, professional, and relational growth. How do we offer unique passionate experiences to those who do not get an opportunity for such things?
The work of The IDEAS Institute exists at a place of post-education, post-therapy, post-training, and post-current work history. It is about placing people in situations and relationships that will have the power to offer them paradigm shifts, vision expansion, and a more whole version of themselves. We take the intellectual capital (wisdom of the mind, heart and soul) from one part of the population, and offer it to another part of the population.
The tale goes that when asked how he created such a masterpiece, Michelangelo answered,
“I just looked at the block of marble, and chipped away everything that wasn’t David.”
We believe society at large benefits from the collaboration of The IDEAS Institute and the often overlooked population of people who already feel they have “peaked” in their growth. It is our intent to continually offer opportunities and experiences that “chip away” everything that no longer supports authentic personal expansion and communal impact.
The IDEAS Institute is expansive and inclusive. It is not a one single faith-based or one single vocation-based or one single topic-based system, but offers a dynamic engagement in the realms of the spiritual, the purposeful, and the processes of oneself. There is a large segment of the population with much potential for positive growth yet to be unlocked; in their own lives and in the lives of everyone around them.
This is our best attempt at a key.