Our team are passionate about achieving the following mission:
- To relieve people of the distress associated with transformational crises by offering qualified support around the world via our affiliated offices and members. Qualified support may include peer specialists, trained licensed healthcare providers who have acquired a specialty in this particular work via our training, as well as sharing resources online via our website and /or providing residential care in respite homes that we manage or that are managed via our affiliated offices.
- To advance wellbeing or the saving of lives through supporting people experiencing spiritual crisis with the potential reduction or cessation of their perceived need for self-injury, including suicide and/or over-dependence on potentially harmful psychiatric medication.
- To advance a peer community of support for those experiencing spiritual crisis around the world through the development of local and online support groups and forums.
- To provide opportunities for volunteers to create additional member networks and other organisations around the world to support those going through spiritual crisis by assisting with their development.
- To establish and maintain a dynamic and orderly internet presence through which our resources are readily accessible to our members throughout the world and through which our members can more easily contact each other and enjoy supportive dialogue.
- To work in collaboration with other satellite members and organisations aiming to create a more compassionate and transpersonal conceptual framework for emotional distress.
- To decrease stigma and advance tolerance of diversity for those who are experiencing spiritual crises in communities that are still uninformed of this natural human experience.
- To advance education for four groups internationally:
- people experiencing spiritual crisis by providing guidance as to how to reduce their symptoms, understand the stages of the process, and by providing a conceptual framework toward an arc of healing
- people supporting those in spiritual crisis, particularly but not exclusively healthcare professionals, psychological and holistic therapists, by raising awareness of and recognising how to treat, the symptoms of spiritual crisis
- family, friends and peers of those in spiritual crisis, by increasing understanding so they know how best to support those in spiritual crisis
- our member networks in any country by assisting in their development or augmenting their existing expertise
- To raise awareness of the phenomenon of spiritual crisis to two audiences: by introducing new studies into the curriculum within educational facilities such as schools, universities, mental health training clinics and other organisations. Also, to provide education in order to normalise the phenomenon of spiritual crisis for the public benefit within mainstream society via published articles and social media posts.
- To promote and support international research in the field of spiritual crisis by facilitating networking and collaboration, providing regular conferences and online resources including a newsletter, in particular but not exclusively.
- To strengthen the bridge between science and spirituality, and thus contribute to a cartography of the human psyche that can benefit those struggling to understand their most profound life experiences.
- To advance interdisciplinary science through the facilitation of international and national conferences bringing together breakthrough research in various fields related to spiritual emergence.
- The promotion of the moral or spiritual welfare or improvement of the community through the provision of information, support and resources to those in spiritual crisis, thereby helping to increase the numbers of those who embody unusual spiritual awareness, capacities, and active altruism.