Guiding Principles

• The people we serve and encounter deserve our complete attention and a quality of care and teaching that addresses the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of their existence.

• Symptoms of illness are understood as purposeful phenomena to be explored in a creative way that can be used to unleash people's hidden potential.

• In order to effectively help, clinicians and health professionals need to have an attitude of curiosity and patience. They need to be able to listen and to be the catalyst of the growing process and to become the midwives of the soul.

• All life activities should address the need for discovering ways of caring for the whole community: developing attitudes, wisdom, and skills of Elders.

• The aging and the mentally challenged have specific needs and opportunities that we strive to understand from their perspective. Old age and unique states of consciousness are just as important an aspect of life as any other, a time of life review, and a meaningful aspect of personal growth and outstanding awareness.

Goals

Pacific Institute aims to provide an academic approach and a comprehensive system of care that is responsive and appropriate to the present state of the evolution of global consciousness. Some of the Institute's goals are as follows:

• Educate the next generation of leaders in gerontology, mental health, and care services.

• Lead the next generation of humanistic research in those fields.

• Deliver tomorrow's care today

• Maintain and develop outstanding levels of awareness towards others and towards us.

• Collaborate to contribute to the welfare and wellness of the community

• To advance the implementation of our Gerontological Wellness Program that provides comprehensive care and supportive services to the elderly living in residential care facilities.

• To advance the implementation of our Awakenings model of mental wellness.

• Building healthy communities where the elders have a place of wisdom and the youth learn from the elders in a full circle of appreciation and respect.