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
May 4-6th, "Reconnecting to Love & Good Feelings:" Two-and-a-half-day Couples’ Retreat in the Redwoods at the Inn at Saratoga. Space is limited. Please register by April 27.
May 16-18th, 2007 Santa Clara County State of Mind Training,
June 6-8th, 2007, Santa Clara County State of Mind Training, Part II, Applications.
August 9-12, 2007, CSC Summer Learning Institute at the Inn at Saratoga.
October, 2007 (dates TBA), Advanced Training in Clinical Applications of the Principles.
November 10 & 11, 2007, CSC Board Meeting, Location TBA
Announcements
Customized individual, couples’ and family consulting is always available with CSC staff at our consulting offices in Los Gatos, California.
Current Fundraising Campaign: Become a founding donor to the CSC, or contribute in other ways...
Now in Its Second Printing: “The Spark Inside: A Special Book for Youth” by CSC Director Ami Chen Mills-Naim.
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.