Mission, vision, overview

Grounded in the belief that healthy societies begin with healthy individuals, the Centering Center provides natural respite and creative space for individual reflection, revitalization, and experimentation. The hub and spokes model will locate its experimentation headquarters in a rural setting, and will connect to partner sites in urban neighborhoods that look to incorporate spaces for respite . The main Center will create a unique space in nature for individuals to rejuvenate, to explore spaces of empathy and understanding, experiment in multi-sensory spaces, and to practice ideas and habits to bring back and incorporate into daily practice.

The Center will build a coalition of artists, academics, new systems thinkers, community activists to advance thinking and practice to support individual and communal mental health, economic stability. By inviting cross-sector groups of creative thinkers to convene in residency, the goal will be to create prototypes of both physical and virtual tools that can be shared out to a wide range of people in need of both internal and external spaces to rest, pause, imagine.  These cross-sector groups will build a network of support to move the hard work of practicing peace and compassion in community forward.