The real problem is therefore not the problem of knowing this or that, but of being in this or that way.
- Socrates
Human beings are the only beings who desire to be aware of the nature of their being. Our survival and evolution depend on this awareness. Pacific Institute Academia pursues raising people’s awareness as the only mean to know oneself, others, which is the only way to personal and professional awakening.
The PI Academia proposes an educational model based on the phenomenological involvement of the student and that is studied. Only by vigilantly raising our consciousness, can we really find ways to apply the acquired knowledge and unfold personal skills that help others and promote healthy relationships and communities. Our highly differentiated educational approach attend to nurturing the whole person, mentoring and inciting personal, therefore, professional growth by taking the person and the educational phenomena as a whole instead of dichotomizing as me and the other. Pacific Institute has a proven track record of providing cutting edge approach to professional training on process-oriented, client-centered care. The Institute’s approach is revolutionizing the field of mental health, gerontology, and gero-psychology by showing that a non-medical model is not only possible but suitable.
The lack of awareness constitutes a shadow that becomes an obstacle in our flowing with the universe and our specific purposes. This purpose being helping elders to find meaning in their lives, helping the mentally unique to be part of the universe, or being part of a healthier relationship and community.
In order to heal and transform the wounded states of consciousness we need:
- personal and interpersonal awareness work
- social and political changes
- new ways of looking at reality and new myths that would help us to stay in touch with the basic interconnectedness, the Dreaming, the flow.
~ Bogna-Szymkievicz
Pacific Institute Europe
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body...
- Walt Whitman
