Facilitated by Natalie Plachte White and Alexis Slutzky.
Experience the age-old practice of Council and learn ways to use it to enrich all your relationships: couples, families, schools, businesses, communities ...
Interested in learning about the Way of Council? Looking to deepen your council practice in your work setting or in your personal life? The Ojai Foundation's Center for Council Training has announced a full slate of council trainings for 2012. Sign up today!
Visit the new European Council Network (ECN) website to learn about the growing number of individuals and organizations entering the practice of council in Europe. After five years of introductory and now advanced trainings in Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and the UK, there is now an Annual Gathering of Council Carriers to build this emerging community. This year, a number of the European Trainers will be acknowledged and encouraged to continue thier work. A focus on council in schools is just taking shape, with a first Council for Educators training this past summer in Germany. Click here for more information.
The Los Angeles Times ran a feature story on Saturday, November 27th profiling TOF's groundbreaking work bringing council to schools throughout the region. Our Council in Schools programs have evolved over 25 years and now serve over 12,000 students!
CCT Council Trainer and Wonderland Avenue School faculty member, Julia Mason Wasson, has an article featured in ASCD's publication Educational Leadership discussing how she integrated council into the mentoring of teachers new to the profession. Click here to read the article!
An innovative collaboration between The Ojai Foundation, Southern California Foster Families and Adoption Agency and the congregation of Kehillat Israel Synagogue works to build community across cultural barriers, recognizing that we all have much to learn from one another.
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03/14/2010
Our center in Ojai is a semi-wilderness, sustainable-model educational sanctuary for living in right relationship with each other and the earth. We host council trainings,
rites of passage retreats, a ropes course challenge, permaculture workshops and more for youth and adults.
For more than 25 years, The Ojai Foundation's award-winning Council in Schools Initiative has been providing school communities with training and support in the practice and integration of council into the life of school. See our new Council in Schools website by clicking here!!
Ceremonies, like birthdays and graduations, help youth and young adults to mark certain times in their lives and to realize their individual importance in the world. The Youth Programs at The Ojai Foundation allow youth to mark such times of significance while also providing a rich background that helps to frame these experiences.
Our Ropes Course offers groups of all ages, corporate teams, and families the opportunity to overcome personal limitations through exciting and rewarding mental, emotional, and physical challenges. With the assistance of our trained staff, such experiences can become doorways into greater self-confidence, improved ability to relate to others, and opportunities to make empowering choices.
For the past nine years the Foundation has been supporting a variety of council-based programs in Israel. These include councils in schools, women's empowerment groups, municipalities, intimate relationships and inter-cultural councils directed at the creation of a truly Shared Society in the Holy Land. These initiatives resulted in the creation of an Israeli non-profit organization, Ma'agal Hakshava" (Listening Circles), that continues to work closely with Ojai. For current information and links, please click here.
In 2007 the Foundation became the Fiscal Sponsor for a medical research program in Mali, Africa. The clinical part of the Program involves the evaluation of an immune system enhancer called Low Dose Naltroxone as a way of preventing HIV positive individuals from subsequently developing AIDS symptoms. Participants in the clinical trials can also participate in monthly councils involving men and women discussing issues of intimate relationship, health and cultural mores that directly impact the spread of HIV. For current reports and links, please click here.
Ceremonies, like birthdays and graduations, help youth and young adults to mark certain times in their lives and to realize their individual importance in the world. The Youth Programs at The Ojai Foundation allow youth to mark such times of significance while also providing a rich background that helps to frame these experiences. 
Our Ropes Course offers groups of all ages, corporate teams, and families the opportunity to overcome personal limitations through exciting and rewarding mental, emotional, and physical challenges. With the assistance of our trained staff, such experiences can become doorways into greater self-confidence, improved ability to relate to others, and opportunities to make empowering choices. 
