Our group intention is to uphold these values as we fulfill our mission. To the best of our ability we:
Exemplify empowerment and informed choice with regard to living and dying with dignity.- Create caring, individually tailored attention for clients and patrons; to meet their needs as best we can and within our scope of practice and skill.
- Provide mentoring for those with interest in our mission; including education for to youth, college students, wholistic and medical healthcare professionals.
- Offer these services at low cost or on a sliding scale to those persons showing financial challenges due to illness.
- Build community through open, multi-generational communication.
- Ever increase our collective knowledge and skill as a resource for quality of life, and end-of-life choices.
- Take a well-educated, proactive and self-responsible role in matters of our own health, well being; and end-of-life choices as we interact with colleagues, care agencies, clients, and the public at large.
- Adhere to the spiritual principles and ethical values unique to each of us, and to respect those of others.
- Recognize and value the use of ceremony, visual, healing, and experiential arts as a valid educational vehicle to this work.
- Aspire to a code of ethics that is hopeful, nonjudgmental, cooperative, compassionate, and respectful toward all life.
- Respect and appreciate our directors, advisors, staff, interns, patrons, donors, and clients.
- Support and uphold the principles of wholeness, equanimity, and the organic interconnection of all life.
- Advocate practices and philosophies that foster personal, family, community, and global wellness.
- Maintain a high degree of integrity and credibility as we fulfill our mission.
- Fund-raise effectively, successfully, and according to a high code of ethics; to operate under a balanced budget.
- Create a healthy work environment, conducive to creativity, personal empowerment, shared success and optimal productivity on all levels.
- Work as a conscious, co-creative team.
- Practice knowing and living the qualities of uniqueness, equanimity, oneness, grace, humanity, connectedness, and humility.
- Take authentic actions with presence, clear intent, ease, purpose, and vision.
- Uphold these values in personal and professional situations.