Our Philosophy: The Intersection Of Nature, Nonprofits, Therapy, Community And Change

  • The natural process of the universe where things join together to create something larger than themselves, being made up of the original things, but completely other than the original things in their internal consistency. Subatomic Particles join together to create Atoms, which are made up of Subatomic Particles, but completely other than Subatomic Particles in their consistency. Atoms join together to create Cells, which are made up of Atoms, but completely other than Atoms in this consistency. Cells join together to create Tissue. Tissue, Organs. Organs, Living Organisms. So what if Living Organisms can join together to create something larger than themselves, made up of themselves, but completely other and beyond themselves. What would that next stage look like?

  • There is a population of people with an abundance of something. There is also a population of people with a scarcity of that exact thing. The Nonprofit exists to facilitate helping the abundance meet the scarcity. Would it be possible to take the intellectual, relational and experiential capital of one population and offer it to another population in need of those very things?

  • In a therapy room, two souls and stories meet in an intentional purposeful relationship for the goal of effectual change. It’s a one-on-one endeavor. What would it look like to extend out these therapeutic movements? What if instead of one-on-one, it was a many-on-many interaction? What could be created if you took this highly individualized reciprocal cooperative communication and made it communal and interactive on a large population group size?

  • It is very easy to fall into routine and autopilot, in thoughts and behaviors. Sometimes to actually “see” something, one has to forget the name of it, one has to forget what it thinks it knows about that something. What if we could offer such a diversity of personality and experience and topic, in such an intense and specific way, that the growth movements/themes that are underneath most therapeutic and spiritual practices could truly be felt, allowing a breaking to occur, rather than just self-management? It would change the conversation from content to processes, from topics to themes, from the linear to the systemic, from left-brain-dominance to neural-integration.