The
Taos Institute is a non-profit educational organization, designated as a 501(c)3. Our activities are sustained primarily by individual donors, small grants from foundations, our programs. Both to continue the Institute's activities and to
expand the resources we offer, we must rely on the generous support of
others.
The Taos Institute is an international learning community
that addresses the social processes essential
for the construction of meaning, reason, knowledge,
and human value. Our focus is on how social groups
create and sustain their beliefs in what they
experience as reality and defined as being of
value. We recognize that, as people create meaning
together, they also translate new meaning into
action. Meaning and action create the future.
We are committed to exploring, developing and
disseminating ideas and practices that promote
creative, positive and collaborative change in
people, families, organizations, and communities
throughout the world. We have given particular
attention to the fields of organizational change,
community development, mental health, counseling,
social work, education, medicine and gerontology.
The Taos Institute provides conferences, workshops,
publications, a Ph.D. program, a distance learning
program, newsletters, web-based offerings, and
this website. At the same time, there is a vital
need for improving and expanding the offerings
of the Institute. There are special needs for
scholarship funds to support minorities and third
world participants, for translating resources
into languages other than English, and for supporting
partnership programs in Latin America and South
Africa. As a nonprofit organization we rely on
the generosity of people like you to sustain and
expand our efforts. We welcome all gifts - large
or small - supporting our mission of generating
ideas, educational resources and practices that
will contribute to positive futures for the world's
peoples.