Strategic Alliances
We have cultivated several alliances to multiply the reach and the impacts of ZIHT/PTF.
There are key strategic activities understood as essential to expand and multiply (i) our collective institutional and organizational presence on the planet, and (ii) our peace-related communications and messages, accompanying possible ‘transformational solutions.’ It is imperative that, in the very near future, our messages and activities reach the largest number of citizens, communities, politicians, corporate owners, entrepreneurs, educators, educational institutions, international organizations, unions and parliamentarians, worldwide.
We know that the agenda for attaining planetary balance has taken the back seat — it is not on the radar of many decision-makers and foundations. Maslow’s pyramid is defining the strategic concerns of many institutions: “we need to satisfy our material needs first, and then move up the pyramid to satisfy other needs, including world peace… healing will come after we address Covid-19, after we address the failure of the national and global economic system, after we deal with climate change, after…” This view is directly translated into public and private resource allocations and into a very limited paradigm for the proper management of our global public goods.
In my life, I have self-realized that inner peace is the most solid foundation for healing the planet and healing humanity. As part of that critical path, it is fundamental to heal nature and all sentient beings. Without self-healing, there is no proper intelligence, advanced memory, and powerful human creativity — all essential to face the challenges of our time. Healing is not a thing. Healing is not sold in the supermarkets. Healing is a state of inner being, individually and collectively, and thus must be self-realized. It is this document that will bring to the fore our agenda of healing the planet; it is in our domain to shift the priorities in the world agenda.
Our alliances also enable us to strengthen activities that address healing, education, sustainable development and human rights within two important constituencies, in a holistic way: children and indigenous peoples. The Foundation will greatly benefit from embracing instruments which produce relevant “multiplier effects” of all the actions taking place at the country level — forming a series of strategic alliances with major NGOs, many of them accredited to the United Nations.
Nine alliances, two honored knowledge-keepers
Tralkan Foundation
An allied foundation working with ZIHT to advance sustainable development and spiritual practice in the Latin American region, referenced among the Institute’s partners in its work with the corporate and philanthropic sector.
Proqualitas Foundation
An allied institution collaborating with ZIHT on quality-of-life and human development programming, part of the Institute’s partnership work as it expanded engagement with the corporate world in Chile and Colombia.
Sonrisas de Paz
A peace-oriented allied organization working with communities across Latin America.
The Dhammakaya Foundation
A Buddhist foundation collaborating with ZIHT on meditation practice and engaged Buddhism programming.
The Salvadorian Institute for the Rescuing of Indigenous Ancestral Knowledge
A partner institution dedicated to the preservation of indigenous ancestral knowledge in El Salvador and the wider region.
DePaul University
ZIHT has lectured at DePaul University, the University of Michigan and Penn State University, bringing the voices of the poor and the Institute’s findings on human transformation to established academic and policy audiences in the United States.
The Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation
Founded by Lama Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche (7 July 1941 – 18 April 2020), the Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation intervened on issues including climate change and world peace, and presented proposals for a Forum at the United Nations for World Peace. ZIHT has maintained a strategic relationship with the foundation and its network.
The World Foundation for Integrative Medicine (GFIM)
The Global Foundation for Integrative Medicines (GFIM) is a 501(c) non-profit organization that seeks to educate people in the many ways we can heal — physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually — through understanding all medicines and the ability of nature to heal. The founders of GFIM believe that through the integration of medicines, inclusive of eastern, western and subtle medicines, we can heal ourselves, our families, communities and the world at large. “It is through healing that we unite in peace.”
ZIHT/PTF has been in a strategic partnership with GFIM for more than a decade, participating in conferences around the world — in the USA and Mexico — as host, keynote speaker, spiritual leader and strategic adviser. The thematic priority brought by ZIHT/PTF has been the foundation of spiritual medicine, conscious healing and healing the planet for world peace, welcomed and appreciated by prominent professionals in the health field. A few years ago, the ZIHT/PTF President and Founder was nominated WFIM’s Peace Ambassador — a great honor for the Foundation, and an important instrument for opening new alliances in the area of world peace.
Don Lauro de la Cruz
Don Lauro de la Cruz es un hombre medicina, ancestral y nativo con linaje maya, originario de las montañas de Chiapas, México. Desde pequeño fue reconocido por su comunidad como sanador y desde entonces imparte sus enseñanzas y su medicina. Las curaciones que realiza abren la puerta a un proceso de transformación interior más amplio, que nos conecta con la medicina del alma.
Don Lauro trabaja una parte del año en la reserva ecológica “El Mirador” en San Cristóbal de las Casas, donde comparte su sabiduría con quienes llegan a buscarlo. Este espacio, también conocido como “la Montaña”, ha recibido a cientos de personas interesadas en descubrir cómo se expresa su propia esencia de vida. Don Lauro es un maestro que enseña a mirar con ojos renovados la realidad que nos rodea. Para él, la enseñanza espiritual más sagrada debe recordarnos la simplicidad de las cosas, y la clave para ello es vivir y reconocer nuestra humanidad en todas sus facetas. Como hombre medicina y de conocimiento ha dialogado y convivido con maestros y maestras de distintas tradiciones que, como él, han preservado enseñanzas que solo pueden transmitirse de corazón a corazón.
Abuelo Fermín Gómez
ZIHT/PTF is honored to give tribute to Mr. Fermín Gomez, one of the most outstanding and internationally known Mayan Priests — a person dedicated totally to humanity and mother nature, a spiritual leader and powerful shaman and healer, and spiritual guide to many thousands of people from around the world, including the President of the Foundation. Born in 1942 in Chu-kalkiej, del Barrio Xolve San Francisco El Alto, Guatemala, he has held many professional positions, perhaps most publicly as a Member of the Guatemalan Congress — enabling him to integrate spirituality fully into public policy making. He has collaborated with ZIHT in many capacities, and has nominated the ZIHT/PTF President an Ambassador of the Mayan People.
Among his accomplishments: signatory of the Political Constitution of the Republic of Guatemala, promulgated by the National Constituent Assembly; Deputy to the Congress of the Republic for five years; member for five consecutive years of the Constitutional Commission on Human Rights; founder and first President of the Commission of Indigenous Communities of the Congress of the Republic; member of the Congressional Commission for Administrative Reform; member of the board of directors of the Congress of the Republic; elected Secretary of the Indigenous Parliament of America; and Special Guest for the working group on indigenous peoples in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the American Union in New York.
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