We passionately lead in serving others desiring change by coming alongside them relationally with integrity, generosity, and humility working hard with wisdom to empower people to meet their needs compassionately focusing on strengths, as we continually pursue learning and adapt to improve in doing so.
Beliefs
Promote connection, Honor differences, Open communication, Resolve conflict, Shared purpose, Foster competence
Values
Relationships, Integrity, Generosity, Humility, Transformation, Security, Compassion, Gratitude, Wisdom, Joy, Hope
OPERATING PRINCIPLES: How we do Things
Relationship-centered: We mindfully live to serve others with a passion, being accessible, responsive, engaged, promoting asking, reaching, risking, and turning towards
Strengths-based: we focus on our and others’ strengths with grace and accountability, speak life
Trauma-informed: compassionate for how life has an impact on people
Purpose Driven: Understand how the work we do helps others
Integrated, Values-Driven: Live out principles, values, beliefs and mission regardless of the task
Love our Work/Passion Driven: We come early eager and ready to serve with a leader’s heart and pride of ownership like it’s our life calling or dream
We honor and accept vulnerability as courage with curiosity and warmly nurture play, imagination, and dreams together
LUV: Listen to Understand and Validate what makes sense
Gently, nobly, and firmly address challenges
CULTURE: Collective Behaviors of the Team
Curious, Open, Accepting, Loving learners dedicated to promoting connection and honoring differences, living to light and raise others up.
RESULTS: Measure of our Mission
We experience secure connection and strong wellness as a healthy team and community contagiously/influentially, with changed lives and fulfilled hopes and dreams.
AIC has adopted EFT's Stance on Diversity:
We aim to cultivate a climate of inclusion, an environment where all can feel safe, valued, cared for and have an opportunity to form meaningful connections with each other. In all facets of our work, we strive to embody what we hope to see in the world — a just, loving humanity and community in which people are free to be themselves fully — where people can embrace their most basic universal human attachment needs without fear of persecution or marginalization as a result of religion, race, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, class, mental health, physical character or disability. These values are inherent in the attachment science and humanistic approach to intervention on which all our work is based. Specifically, humanistic approaches such as EFT are collaborative and respectful. We create a safe place for people and treat them as persons not problems or types. Our approach is non-pathologizing in practice. Our values are inclusive and egalitarian while viewing human connection as sacred — something to be honored and cultivated. Our scientific and theoretical base outlines key universals, emotion and attachment, while respecting individual differences.