A Description of the Center

About the CSC

We teach educators, youth-service workers, communities and families how to engage the innate resilience—the natural human capacity for learning, creativity, compassion, common sense and well-being—in the youth they teach and care for, and, as importantly, in themselves … to become outstanding role models for our children.

The Center’s work is built on three decades of successfully applying a principle-based/innate health psychology to communities and schools across the nation. We see an understanding of the principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought as the “essential curriculum” for students, educators, caregivers and parents that will assist our younger generations to most rapidly shed insecurity, fear, and the biases and prejudices of the past; and to more fully harness their innate goodness, creativity and wisdom to create a world of unforeseen possibility and sustainable change.

The Center’s primary activities include:

  • Producing principle-based materials for the fields of education, youth services and parent outreach & education about the fact of innate resilience, and the psychological principles that govern learning, positive growth, ideal role modeling, and bringing out the best (maximizing resilience) in children and young people from all walks of life.
  • Offering comprehensive training programs to deepen the understanding of these principles for teachers, administrators, parents, community members and other caregivers so they are most effective in their crucial roles as caretakers and educators of the next generations—and so the “microclimates” within which our children are raised are in alignment to a paradigm of hope, and effective, sustained positive change.
  • Designing and implementing research and outcome projects (as well as written reports) around our work in order to publicize the efficacy of principle-based interventions to the relevant fields and the general public.
  • Offering tailored, individual, couples’ and family consulting programs, as well as seminars and workshops, through our offices in the South Peninsula (San Francisco Bay Area).
CSC Upcoming Events
Summer Learning Institute 2008! in the redwoods of Saratoga, CA: “Releasing Resiliency in Youth & Families” with CSC Director Ami Chen Naim and guest presenters. Focus on children & families at risk. August 7-10, 2008. Registration due July 15. Click here for program description & registration form.
The Center’s Summer Learning Institute is held for four-five days the second weekend in August of every year, in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains.
Announcements
Spring News! The CSC has just partnered with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to provide training and support services to low-income families and communities in Des Moines, IA & Charlotte, N.C. via our National Community Resiliency Project. Contact the Center to learn more.
Visit Mr. Sydney Banks, author of “The Missing Link” and “The Enlightened Gardener” on You Tube! If you feel moved to do so, please also rate his video and add your own comment. Click here and search on “Sydney Banks.”
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Customized individual, couples’ and family consulting is always available with CSC staff at our consulting offices in Los Gatos, California.
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Current Fundraising Campaign: Become a founding donor to the CSC, or contribute in other ways...
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Now in Its Second Printing:The Spark Inside: A Special Book for Youth” by CSC Director Ami Chen Mills-Naim.
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Building Relationship: CSC and the Shinnyo-en Foundation
“ … bringing forth deeper compassion among humankind” –from the SEF mission statement.
Principles-based books and materials, including those authored by Sydney Banks and CSC President Roger C. Mills, Ph.D., can be found at www.lonepinepublishing.com.