About The Highest Ground Institute
Mission
The mission of The Highest Ground Institute is to facilitate the emergence of an integral approach to emotional intelligence that
- encompasses a holistic and heart-centered view of being human;
- fosters self-mastery, internal emancipation, and the ability to bring about everyday transformation; and
- provides individuals with the keys to empowering and accelerating their personal growth and evolution on a sustainable and ever-expanding basis.
Vision
Holistic
We envision a world in which having a holistic understanding of how to be emotionally intelligent is commonplace. This integral emotional intelligence approach to personal development encompasses all four domains of human expression and how they interact: mind, body, emotions, and spirit or consciousness.
Empowering
Our aim is to provide individuals with the knowledge, tools, and coaching necessary to empower them to be their best selves. In other words, to enable individuals to empower themselves to develop self-mastery, cultivate an unshakeable sense of their inner being, and operate more fully from their personal highest ground.
Collaborative
We envision working collaboratively with like-minded individuals and organizations to make integral emotional intelligence education and coaching more widely available. This includes expanding the community of people who are committed to fostering emotional intelligence and empowering them with practical ways of generating co-creative, “you and me” outcomes in their lives and in the world.
The Highest Ground Institute is committed to empowering individuals to achieve positive outcomes across all areas of their lives.
Here are some of the intended outcomes possible for our clients.
About Us
What Our Clients Say
Everyone is at a unique place in their path of personal growth and evolution. Wherever you are is the ideal place from which you can grow and evolve.
We have developed a way of working with clients that is a combination of life coaching, counseling, and teaching. While our clients have reported that their work with us has been deeply healing and therapeutic, our approach is more proactive and instructive than traditional talk therapy.
We feel strongly that these reasons are not mutually exclusive, and we work to empower our clients to master the ability to turn breakdowns into breakthroughs while they are doing the work of inner emancipation.
We begin working with each client by clarifying their goals and creating a process that is custom-tailored to their individual needs. We strive to avoid applying band-aid solutions to problems and instead work to heal and transform the underlying dynamics.
When clients come to us in a state of disequilibrium, we work with them to recover their sense of equilibrium. This work is done within a larger context of empowering them to gain the emotional literacy, practical skills, and sense of their inner being necessary for deep change and sustainable growth.
Finding Your Highest Ground
Being emotionally intelligent is not a destination; it’s a moment-by-moment practice of constantly bringing yourself back to your most centered, grounded sense of self.
There are two basic paradigms or domains available from which to approach life at every moment: either adversarial (you or me) or nonadversarial (you and me).
You have a choice about where you operate from in life. You don’t have to be different from the way you already are. It is a matter of changing your perspective and choosing to take a more heart-centered approach to life by replacing old, habitual, and dysfunctional patterns with more functional ones.
