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Service Organizations

• Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) -- website includes both Member Links with "links to the web sites of AHP members and their humanistic practices, organizations, products and services" and a Professional Directory that "contains listings specifically submitted by AHP’s Professional Members ... in a wide variety of disciplines, categorized by state."
• Center for Imaginal Psychology -- "to foster the emergence of Imaginal Psychology ... to go outside the discipline of psychology to other knowledge domains. Specifically these knowledge domains include: Spiritual Traditions, Somatic Practices, Creative Arts, Mythology, Indigenous Wisdom, Literary and Poetic Imagination, Deep Ecology, and Social Critique." You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the hour of new clarity.– Rainer Maria Rilke
• Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (CFM) -- "the umbrella organization for the Stress Reduction Program and a range of other activities dedicated to the integration of mindfulness meditation practices into the mainstream of medicine and health care, as well as its integration into other areas of society including education, corporate leadership, the workplace, criminal justice and sports."
• Institute for Personal Growth -- offers professional workshops, consulting services, counseling, published books, internet courses, and a free-standing doctoral program.
• Coach Referral Service -- sponsored by the International Coach Federation. "Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives.... The coach's job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has."
• Constructive Living Learning Centre -- "presents an educational method of approaching life realistically and thoughtfully, based on our own experience, rather than on theories about how life should ideally be. The action aspect of Constructive Living emphasizes accepting reality (including feelings); learning to co-exist with unpleasant feelings, while re-focusing on purposes/goals and objectives; and then doing what needs to be done. The reflection aspect of Constructive Living provides a method to see reality more clearly, including the moment-by-moment support we receive from others, and that by our own standards, how we cause inconvenience and trouble for others. It shifts our attention from self to other." Includes a Resource Library.
• Esalen Institute -- a place "of adventure, of unexplored frontiers, of human possibilities yet to be realized.... 120 acres of fertile land carved out between mountain and ocean, blessed by a cascading canyon stream and hot mineral springs gushing out of a seaside cliff."
• Jungian Links -- links to other groups and organization related to the work of C.G. Jung. The International Association for Analytical Psychology site includes a U.S. directory of Jungian analysts.
• Live Consciously -- "Feel more alive—and aligned with your values. Tired of the work and spend treadmill dictating where you are going, or how fast you get there? We can help. Slow down, take a breath, reconnect with family and friends, have a little noncommercial fun, find balance in your life." A project of the Center for a New American Dream.
• National Disability Rights Network -- "the voluntary national membership association of protection & advocacy systems and client assistance programs ... providing quality legally based advocacy services. NAPAS has a vision of a society where people with disabilities exercise self-determination and choice and have equality of opportunity and full participation."
• National Empowerment Center -- "to carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people who have been labeled with mental illness. We carry that message with authority because we are a consumer/survivor/expatient-run organization and each of us is living a personal journey of recovery and empowerment." Offers a toll-free information and referral line.
• Omega Institute -- "a pioneer in exploring, teaching, and embracing new ideas. We have also had another mission: to create a peaceful oasis in a hurried world. To this end, we have made our campus a healing center, a place where you can relax, rejuvenate, and feel at home in the midst of nature's bounty and a community of warm, caring people."
• Reflective Happiness -- "World-renowned psychologist and the foremost leading authority on positive thinking, Dr. Martin Seligman, has developed a groundbreaking program which has accurately measured and improved depression and happiness in over 90% of test subjects."
• The Simple Living Network -- "an international network of like-minded individuals who enjoy sharing their ideas and insights about "simple living" (a.k.a. 'voluntary simplicity')."

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