The Whole Health Center
Over four decades of healing, community, and enlightenment
From 1981 to 2023 The Whole Health Center, founded and directed by Paul, offered a natural and nurturing approach to whole health and personal and spiritual growth on beautiful Mount Desert Island. Our classes, workshops, retreats, groups, and individual and couple counseling services were for all those seeking to promote self-realization, integration, reciprocity, and heart connection in our inner and outer lives. It was fertile ground for service, and for the evolution of a deepening coherence of spiritual outlook and understanding that has offered an integrative and transformational vision and practice – based on our personal experience and on the confirmation of all the wisdom traditions – regarding the evolutionary journey and developmental needs of our species, and of each of us human beings, growing in harmony with the web of life.
Today, this beacon of community healing and teaching no longer occupies the physical location that was a welcoming home to so many. It rests in many hearts. But it continues to be the foundation of our ongoing non-profit work that is now assuming new forms.
New or old friends who would like to review some of our history may read more here.
One member of The Whole Health Center community offered this lengthy perspective – for which we are extremely grateful..
“When you enter the Whole Health Center, you become aware of an atmosphere, more specifically, an energy of inclusiveness and interconnection that touches you in a very intimate way. You intuitively know that you have come into a safe and sacred space… ”
— Janice
In August of 2023, some of the community gathered – from near and far – for a ceremonial offering of gratitude and gift-giving back to the land that hosted us for so long.
We have made a point of acknowledging The Whole Health Center on this website because it is important to acknowledge and express gratitude for the blessings of significant history and of shared experience. But even more so as an acknowledgement and a thank you to all those individuals over the years who supported and made our work and our community possible – who brought their hearts to the Center and to each other, and who still carry us all in their hearts.