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The HEAL Foundation
Goals HEAL is an organization of people, who care about people and who are committed to: Exploring fundamental elements and dynamics of human relationships; Identifying tools and techniques for encouraging healthier, happier relationships between individuals and themselves, their families, their friends, and their communities; Promoting healthier relationships by increasing awareness and use of these tools and techniques; Creating positive change by utilizing knowledge and understanding of relationships to assist in conflict resolution, community building, and addressing social issues and problems. We believe all humans have the desire to increase their own health and happiness and to decrease their suffering. HEAL seeks to affirm and stimulate each individual's capacity to live in healthy relationships. Our work is based on the assumption that human relationships have similar dynamics and commonalities. The lack of loving and nurturing relationship skills is at the hearts of many pressing and disturbing problems that trouble our society. We hold the belief that improved understanding of our basic human characteristics and relationships are essential ingredients in understanding and dealing with many of the problems and challenges faced by individuals, families, societies, and even nations in the world community. It is not our goal to present some form of ultimate truth. It is our hope that our work will help identify certain aspects of the human family that can be used to increase positive, harmonious human interaction while reducing negative, harmful human interaction. Relationship formation and maintenance play major roles in defining us as people. In fact, a vast majority of our time is spent interacting in an incredible number and variety of relationships. Failure to form and sustain healthy relationships frequently leads to abusive relationships, which pose fundamental challenges to our individual and communal health. Relationships are part of all aspects of our lives. We are involved in them at home, on the job, in the car, in our spiritual groups, even when we are alone. Looking at these activities and seeking to understand them better could open a new approach to living life, to connecting and communicating with people, to loving and nurturing those we care about, and to reducing and resolving conflicts with others. |
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