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OUR MISSION
The mission of The Jean Houston Foundation addresses global need. The Foundation promotes positive social change by developing international communities of leaders in Social Artistry™ to apply a wide range of cutting edge leadership and human potential development skills for finding innovative solutions to critical local and global issues. The Foundation offers training, research, consultation, leadership, and guidance with the aim to advance individual, social and cultural development both locally and globally. It is a global movement with a goal to reach over 100 million people worldwide with transformational leadership in action in the next ten years.

OUR PRINCIPLES
The key qualities with which we engage:

	Source all action from deep wisdom & inspired guidance
	Respect and care for Earth and all of life in its diversity
	Promote human rights, fundamental freedoms, and social and economic justice
	Support peace

The Jean Houston Foundation was created as a non-profit leadership training organization, specializing in exploring and applying untapped human capacities in its participants to assist in creating positive change at the local and global level.

Its programs hold a direct focus on whole-systems change and personal empowerment and work directly with and within organizations such as the United Nations and other professional bodies and institutions throughout the world to train 10,000 trainers over five years, ultimately reaching 100 million people in 10 years.

Read Jean’s thoughts on the new ways of leadership that our times demand.

GOVERNANCE
The Jean Houston Foundation is governed by a Board of Trustees who oversee its mission of implementing Social Artistry™ trainings and programs throughout the world. Additionally, Dr. Monica Sharma, Director of Leadership and Capacity Development for the United Nations, serves to guide and orchestrate the mission of the Foundation, its programs and trainings. Elizabeth Zinck Rothenberger, archivist of Jean Houston’s work since 1984, serves as a principal advisor to the Foundation.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Jean Houston, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board, is a scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities; one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement; a past president of the Association of Humanistic Psychology; and instrumental in the development of the new field of Social Artistry™. She is author of 26 books.

Alison May, board of directors Goodwill industries of San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo Counties and King Arthur Flour; former CEO RedEnvelope, Inc. and Esprit de Corp and Gymboree clothing stores; past president Patagonia, Inc. She now dedicates her time to helping companies develop alternative corporate and organizational structures based on values based leadership.

Diane Powell, M.D., former faculty member at Harvard Medical School; John Hopkins-trained neuroscientist; member of a think tank on consciousness at the Salk Institute; director of research John E. Mack Institute, panelist for the PBS documentary, The Science of Peace, which is still in production; recent author of The ESP Enigma. She currently has a private practice in Medford, OR.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Peggy Dean, MBA, founder of Peak Performance Corp; consultant to Merrill Lynch, Smith Kline Beecham, University of Miami, Charter Medical; headed international cross-cultural project teams with focus on empowering leadership for a healthy shift in large-scale systems in Russia, Turkey and Dominican Republic; former manager at Recognition Equipment and senior VP at M Banks.

“Social Artistry™ is a new model for leadership that is building leadership capacities for change all over the world. It is at work at all levels of leadership, across cultures and continents, in developed and least developed countries, inspiring and moving people to deepen their individual capacities to create a world that works for everyone. We invite you to join us in contributing to lasting, positive change in our world now and for generations to come.”
–Peggy Dean Executive Director

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Start with what they know; Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, When the work is done, The task accomplished, The people will say, We have done this ourselves!
-Lao Tzu (700 BC)

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