The mission of The Whole Health Center is to be an agent of integration and deep healing, through promoting both the integrity and self-realization of the individual and genuine reciprocity and conscious communication between people. 

We see both together as essential to wholeness. 

The collective testimony of humanity’s spiritual visionaries suggests that human beings have a greater capacity for love and for conscious attunement than they normally express.  Emerging research in neuroscience gives us a growing scientific foundation for understanding how this capacity is actually an evolutionary inheritance or potential mediated by the structure and function of the heart and the brain.  Psychological and psychodynamic research and understanding shows us how this potential can be encouraged or discouraged by early childhood development and subsequent cultural factors.  And new and ancient technologies of meditation and mindfulness can inform conscious human development.

Though human beings continue to flounder culturally and politically at a very immature stage of development, we no longer need to be in the dark about our evolutionary potential as human beings.  All the fields of understanding are made available to us.  Just as we emerged once from an age of faith into an age of science, we are now emerging into an age of holistic inquiry that needn’t be circumscribed either by the dogmas of faith or the dogmas of materialistic science, but which can widen the boundaries of both faith and science.  Loosing the bounds of both the material and the supernatural we may engage in open-minded investigation of both the subjective and the objective worlds with a creativity of the brain not divorced from the intelligence of the heart.  

The culture is in need of an emerging model of humanity that makes clear the true nature of our evolutionary potential as well as the true nature of our current dysfunctions.  Without this we are adrift.  Evolutionary complexification is able to express a greater level of consciousness and a greater complexity and harmony in the integration of experience.  Morality at the deepest level – the recognition of the “oneness” of being – as well as empathetic attunement, integrated awareness, and altruism – are not mere psychological variables or cultural artifacts, but evolutionary potentials mediated by the prefrontal cortex. We need to understand how to translate this potential into realization and functional behavior.  "Evolutionary psychology" will not truly serve us until it lifts its attention from the provisional genetics of survival and reproductive dominance to the greater genetic potential of conscious choice and direction and harmonious integration.

Throughout four decades of educational and therapeutic work with individuals and groups, and extended workshops, retreats, and community conferences, The Whole Health Center has been an agent of  such awakening and self-realization, conscious communication, integration and and deep healing.  Our programs have always put a premium on cohesive intellectual structure; practical and experiential immersion; a deeper sense of contact and community among participants; and transformational intent and results.