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Donor
Visits and Endorsements
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We
encourage our donors and supporters to visit us here in
Antigua Guatemala. Below are some
photos
of their visits. Please contact
us if you would like to come see our work. For
more photos
from our work here in Guatemala, please visit our
Facebook page, which is updated weekly.
Joe and Andrea Shields visiting Antigua
Lydia Sorenson, GlobalGiving field representative
Bob and Shirley visiting Keller and Grecie
Kelly visiting the philosophy
program
Pat Goonan visiting Dinora
Anabella meeting Maria Emiliana
Michelle visiting Blanca at
home
Jeff Carreira painting with the tots
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Endorsements
for The Integral Heart Foundation:
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"The
Integral Heart Foundation is
doing incredibly important work, and,
just
as significant, is doing so by using (and
teaching) Integral Theory.
This
insures a truly inclusive and comprehensive
approach, something
so
important (and rare) in todays fractured world.
I
send them my very best regards, and highly
recommend you check
them
out."
Ken
Wilber, The
Integral Vision
Ken
Wilber is an American author who has written 25
books about
development
philosophy,
ecology,
and
developmental psychology.
His work formulates what
he calls Integral Theory.
In
1998, he founded the Integral
Institute,
for teaching
and applications
of Integral theory.
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What
our donors are saying; Joanna and Integral
Canberra
Andre Norman, National Gang Council
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Pat
Goonan
I
am very proud I can play a small part in raising the
visibility of this organization. Their work is
with individuals at a deep level, but also looks at the more
complex relationships between
various
systems, developmental levels and even the interior of the
society, which is to say
the culture.
Read Pat's blog post about his trip to visit us here: The
High Cost of Coffee.
Terry
Patten
It looks like you and Mick are doing a lot of good there, and
making good of our shared
name "Integral Heart". And I am sure you are both
learning a lot and growing and being
deepened and changed by
this rich phase of your lives.
Susanne
Cook-Greuter
I am gladdened that there are
folks like you and your wife who apply holistic ideas about
human well-being in places that are in such dire need. You
are doing important work in a
country where the loss of elders and intelligentia has
decimated the continuity of wisdom
and traditions. [Our great thanks to Susanne who donated the
proceeds of her recent
event at Boston Integral to our work here in Guatemala.]
Stephanie
Leombruno
I
have learned about an endless number of social programs and
NGOs and nonprofit organizations but
never have I believed
in one and truly felt they were capable of
creating real and lasting change like I
have felt for
Integral Heart.
Elisa Mishory
Good
luck with it all, and bless the three of you for taking on
as much as you do there.
Im very grateful!
Vedran
Peric
I'm
glad I can help, at least a little bit. You guys are doing
an amazing work!
Lynda St. Dennis
I
have admired your work for some time now and am so grateful
for the opportunity to support a child and
a family. I was
in Guatemala once for a day as part of a cruise. I gave a
girl there some shoes I brought that
didn't fit me right,
and was really taken back at how much the shoes meant to
her. They meant nothing to
me, and she was practically
stunned with her good fortune. Thank you for creating these
easy opportunities
to give. Your work is inspiring!
Ida Jaarvik Hetland
Good
luck and keep up the amazing work you are doing!! By the
way, when I tell people about you they
ask if you can come
and teach philosophy to Norwegian kids as well ;)) hehe!
Tell your lovely wife I say hi ;) Saludos de Suissa.
Tono Aguilar
Check out
Mick's awesome work at The
Integral Heart Foundation and buy his insight and inspiring
book,
The Uncommon Path, on Amazon.com
Pam
Fitches
Wow! Wow! Wow! Mick and Debora
- I just watched the film and I am amazed at the courage and
vision
you all show. Congratulations on your progress. My
heart is humbled and inspired at your willingness to
contribute to the evolution of consciousness right there in
Guatemala.
Danielle
Underwood
Debora
& Mick: Thank you for your dedication to others. Your
work is appreciated. Much love.
Jessica
Roemischer
Inspired by our conversation and your kids there. Thanks for the amazing
synergy of our work.
Ted
Saad
Hi
Debora,
So
nice to hear from you! You are very welcome, and I do
hope this can blossom with other integral communities!
I appreciate the work you and Mick are doing, and am
happy to be part of it in my small way.
I hope we can
meet in person at some point in the future. Give Mick
my love.
Much
love to you.
Ben Williams
It looks as though you are involved in some meaningful work, on many
levels, thanks for sharing. If you are
ever back in Boston
we should have tea. Great to connect!
H.B.Augustine
What
you and Mick are doing is a perfect example for what the
Integral community itself now needs to
accept, embrace, and
enact: taking these celestial ideas and venturing into the
flames of samsara,
getting one's hands dirty, embracing the
suffering and actually connecting with people who experience
it far more than we can even imagine - as opposed to just
sitting back and theorizing about AQAL
(an error I myself
committed and just recently realized...).
Caryn
Silberberg
You
and Mick are doing such great work!
Christian
Schmid
It
is awesome what you and your Debora have built up there in
Guatemala. I just watched the video concerning
the solar
panels and it really touched me, seeing Angelita, one of my
sweethearts, happy with her lamp.
Your website is wonderful.
All the profiles of the students and with the opportunity to
sponsor. Well done!
Barbara
Nussbaum
Know
that you are inspiring me and I am sharing your fine work
with others.
Kimberly Hunn
Thank
you so very much for sending me regular updates on your
travels and development! You are truly
an inspiring
couple and I am just delighted to hear about all the
wonderful ways you are integrating the
heart with the world.
Deborah
Ritchie
Hi
Debora, WOW! You have taken off like a shooting star.... You
are really inspiring, even my seven year
old Sophia is
amazed at your path...I hope that I have the courage to do
the same... Keep up the good
work. Much love and Respect for
you and your uncommon path.. Lets make it common...
Michael
Paone
Just wanted to you to know that the Integral Heart Foundation looks
really inspiring. I love the idea of Integral
being used to
inform social justice, education, and economic development
work where it's needed most.
Keep it up! Hope I can do
something similar one day.
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For
more information email: info
at integralheartfoundation.org
Thank you,
Mick
and Debora.
Stats.
on
Guatemala:
43% of children under five are chronically
malnourished, one of the highest malnutrition rates in the
world.
More than half of the population is below the national
poverty line and 15% lives in extreme poverty.
Poverty among
indigenous groups, which make up 38% of the population,
averages 76% and extreme poverty rises to 28%.
About Guatemala:
Guatemala
is a republic. It is 108,890 square kilometers (42,042 square
miles), thats about the size of Virginia,
half the size of the
UK and a little bigger than Ireland. Guatemala is the next country
south of Mexico and with
a population of 14 million people, it is
the second most densely populated country in Central America.
Visit CIA factbook website about Guatemala
Please support
our work and education programs by making a
donation below:
The
Integral Heart Foundation is a U.S. Registered
501(c)3 non-profit.
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