Community Programs

Community programs are designed to fit the distinctive needs of each community. The training will help participants gain an understanding of:

  • How the Three Principles create our experience of reality
  • Why people perceive things differently
  • How people’s outlooks on life can effect their behavior
  • How people can change their outlook and solve their own problems.
These principle-based  programs demonstrate that people are inherently psychologically healthy and, regardless of environment or circumstances, can be consistently hopeful and creative. It is the opposite of the conventional psychological model that focuses on illness, asserting that what has been damaged in an individual must be repaired before one can get on with her or his life. The Principles demonstrate how everyone can constantly reawaken what is already wise, strong, and whole within oneself, cultivating those qualities of heart and spirit that are available at every moment. It sees the individual as a bundle of assets, rather than problems. It calls for an asset-based approach, rather than a deficit-based approach.

The Three Principles have been used extensively in community empowerment, recovery, rehabilitation and prevention programs. This paradigm was adopted in Miami, Tampa, South Bronx, Fresno, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Minneapolis/St. Paul and other cities in large-scale community revitalization projects. The Three Principles empowered residents to more deeply appreciate and use their innate capacity for wisdom, draw on their assets and assert their leadership abilities.

These realizations allowed residents to take ownership of the community development process, to guide providers, foundations and the private sector toward what each could contribute that would genuinely make a long term difference in the community. Control group studies and demonstration programs showed that people have the potential for directly accessing this discerning, wiser mode of thought in a sustained way, across ethnic, racial and socioeconomic groups.

The NBC Today Show (1991) featured the Modello Project in Miami, Florida for the positive, sustained outcomes. In addition, a police officer trained in the Three Principles, was recognized by Janet Reno, Attorney General at the time, for his remarkable achievements in community projects in  Oakland, California.

 

Participant Comment

“I want to personally thank you for guiding all of us at the Community Resiliency Project toward discovering our inner wisdom and health." M.A., Therapist

 

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Updated: November 12, 2007