Guadalupe Foundation for Wellbeing
Wellbeing | Resilience | Community
Our Intent
Community
To reduce the human suffering and improve the well-being of the most vulnerable regardless of their background, creed, class, race, status, or gender.
To provide information, tutorials, resources and learning opportunities for individuals to reach their highest potential and be the best version of themselves.
To make Evidence Based Interventions for well-being accessible, clear, and culturally sensitive.
To be help individuals be transformative active members of their communities.
To be an integral part of our community and its collective well-being.
To have fun as we mutually grow, heal, and create a meaningful life for our community and for future generations to come.
Our Values
Community &
Interdependence
As humans we were are not created to live alone, it is only in community what we find our fullest potential. We value and practice solidarity by seeking the common good for our community. We believe every individual has a shared duty to promote the welfare of the community and the right to enjoy from that welfare.
Human Dignity & Inclusivity
Kindness & Solidarity
We believe that together we can make a difference and together we are much stronger.
As members of the one human family, we have mutual obligations to promote the rights and development of peoples across communities. Kindness & Solidarity are our fundamental bonds of unity with our fellow human beings and the resulting interdependence.
Community &
Lifelong Growth
We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other’s dignity, rights and responsibilities makes the world a better place to live for all of us. We believe continuous learning and development is critical for growth and well-being. Lifelong learning it not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development, but also self-sustainability.
OUR FOCI
Ending the
Stigma
Mental health suffering is everywhere and it needs to be embraced. 1 in 5 Adults will experience a mental health crisis, worse yet most won’t receive professional care. Sadly, we often find that stigma is perpetuated by intergenerational silence, shame, systemic racism, poverty and inequity. But we are bigger than our struggles and perceived differences and we can work together to bring down the barriers that prevent us from seeking help.
Synergy & Interconnectedness
We are all interconnected, all of us are linked by unseen bonds and together form a kind of universal family. Concern for those who suffer needs to be met with sincere love for ALL fellow human beings and an unwavering commitment to resolving the mental crisis problems of our communities. Because, as the wise Jean-Bertrand Aristide stated, “When one suffers, WE ALL suffer.”
Replacing Failed Systems
There needs to be a distinctive way of looking at mental health, a new way of thinking, policies, an education programs, a lifestyle and a spirituality which together generate HOPE & paradigm SHIFT where we viewed mental illness not as a sickness or pathological condition but rather an experience of discomfort, distress and mental pressure that is a normal part of life.
Liberty, Justice, & THRIVE for ALL
To Suffer is human. Yet, systems that deny millions of our brothers and sisters their most basic economic, social and cultural rights only creates more suffering through poverty and unequal access to resources. Everyone deserves the right to community support, socio and economic resources, and affordable care to manage suffering and to THRIVE in life. It is about giving to the poor and to the suffering what is theirs by right. WE ALL have right to THRIVE, not just a privileged few.