Mission
Our mission is “to bring light into this plane” to rebuild relationship eradicating oppression by providing services, education, and applied research for sustainable community development.
The Nature Studies Conservatory (NSC): Center for Healing, Education, and Applied Research is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization/public charity and a comprehensive resource dedicated to cultivating altruism, relationship development, environmental stewardship, transformative learning/activism, and community restoration to help eradicate oppression for the healing of planet and humanity. The Conservatory provides heart-centered programs, education, services, and resources to holistically nourish the spirit, optimize health and wellbeing, improve the quality of life, heal emotional pain/trauma, and offer assistance in achieving one’s full potential. Our emphasis of assisting underserved/disadvantaged populations, who are often disproportionately BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), is for personal and collective empowerment and sustainable/regenerative, socio-economic and environmental restoration.
Vision
For each person to experience heart-inspired, inner awareness and engage in altruistic relationship with one another and the planet.
Values
We are Spirit…
“We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
Welcoming people of all backgrounds; we inspire, empower, and cultivate inner awareness, self-knowledge, and connection to our heart/spirit/power source to passionately express our lives with altruistic purpose that includes contributing to social-economic-environmental revitalization, activism, and stewardship.
Heart-centered, reciprocal relationship lays the foundation for personal, family, community, and environmental renewal.
Expanding our definition of self to include self as others: family/ancestral, community, and Earth/environment; which, forms an evolving individual and collective sense of self.
Holistically developing the spiritual-conscious, emotional, mental, physical, creativity, and relational dimensions of the self awakens a different relationship with the world.
Interfaith Principles
The Sacred, Nature, and Human Potential
We understand that each of us encounter the Sacred in our own personal way. Respecting differences, we seek and practice a life of compassionate action and engagement with one another and the world.
- The Sacred is present in all creation, Nature; which, may be expressed or unexpressed.
- We have the ability to express the Sacred in our everyday interactions and engagement via love and compassion.
- Development of inner relationship with our Higher Self/the Sacred facilitates the awareness and expression of the Sacred and our human potential.
- We create how we show up in the world and manifest a life which brings us healing and wholeness.
- Altruistic, heart-centered expression of our truth/purpose in all aspects of our living/being contributes to the healing of humanity, sentient beings, and the Earth.