Our Beautiful Vision: As an outcome of our work and the work of our partners who are committed to trauma recovery, we see engaged and productive community members who have been able to put their trauma behind them and move on. Free of the devastating impacts of past trauma, with regained resilience, power of choice, and increased control over their lives, we envision people who have benefited from our programs contributing to overall community resilience and thus increasing the community’s ability to meet their challenges and build a world that works for everyone.

Our Core Principle: We honor the innate wisdom of all human beings and their ability to explore their own challenges and experiences within the context of their own culture and worldview and come to their own conclusions about them.

Our Committed Values: Here's what we consider to be important in achieving our mission:

1.    Accessibility, because if it costs money people don't have or is too hard to understand, what good is it?

2.   Collaboration, because teamwork is how things get done.

3. Connection, brought about by listening and authentic, open communication, because it fosters empathy, loving compassion, and community.

4.   Person-centeredness, based on recognizing the innate wisdom and fundamental goodness of all humans and that we are each the expert and authority on our own experiences.

5.   Respect, born of the unprejudiced recognition of mutual humanity and inherent equality, because superiority and inferiority are barriers to our connection.

6.   Restoration of Hope, grounded in both reality and possibility, hope that sparks action, because without hope we are lost.

7. The Spirit of Play, which provides the lightness needed to carry these heavy things.

8.   Humility to manifest and live by each one of these values.

Our Bold Assertion: Unresolved trauma is the single most damaging threat to public health in communities worldwide. It is the core issue underlying individual and, thereby, community ill-health and dysfunction. Unresolved trauma is what thwarts our ability to make choices that are conducive to thriving across the spectrum of life, extending in widening spheres of community from the individual self to the collective of humanity, all life, and the environment. Because at the core of most human suffering is unresolved trauma, the most valuable approach to addressing human suffering would be an effective way to resolve trauma broadly.

Our name, LifeSpheres, refers to the domains (or spheres) within which we each play out our lives. They start with self at the center and extend outward to those who are closest to us, the groups we belong to, all humans everywhere, all living things, and all that exists. Our individual and collective wellbeing, in fact, our thriving can only be assured in association and cooperation with each one of these spheres. For better or for worse, the state of these interdependent concentric spheres resonates outward and back to the center of self. How we are all doing is dependent on the choices we each make with regards to our life spheres. They are the context within which we live. They are our spheres of influence, responsibility, community, relationship, and connection. They are the Spheres of Life. We each reside within our own set of spheres in a multiverse of overlapping spheres.