Heartwood Institute Core Ideology
Our Core Ideology is comprised of Heartwood Institute's (HWI's) Purpose, Values, and Mission Statement. These help to define our overall reason for existence as an institute and community: Purpose: this is 'why' Heartwood exists. Heartwood's Purpose is: Service is Love in Action |
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Values: this is 'how' we intend to achieve our purpose.
The main ingredients that make Heartwood unique are:
• Integrity
• Holistic World Practice
• Loving Service
• Personal Growth and Healing
• Honoring Spirit
Mission Statement: this is 'what' Heartwood does in order to express its Purpose and Values:
Heartwood Institute is a holistic learning community that honors the essence of each individual. Our mission is to help individuals fulfill their dreams of a career with heart.
A Holistic World View |
Entrance to Heartwood's This sanctuary for quiet reflection is a handcrafted post-and-beam straw bale structure. |
We neither invented these concepts nor set out to make them the basis of our culture. Instead, these core values have come into being over the twenty-five years of Heartwood's life, enriched by the intentions of our students, faculty and staff who came here to learn, work and share their lives. These values permeate the fabric of life at Heartwood. In the classrooms, meetings, personal relationships, work and play, they represent the way we are in the world. They are timeless and possess a changeless quality.
We support these values and intend to create practices and mechanisms that foster and enhance their existence here. Likewise, we seek to eliminate practices and mechanisms that mitigate or trivialize them.
These core values enrich our very lives and the lives of every person
who comes here.
At Heartwood, we live our dream of a better world.
