Who We Are
A charitable, educational and artistic institute devoted to mainstreaming spirituality in economics, business, human rights and public policy.
The Zambuling Institute for Human Transformation (ZIHT) was founded in 2005. The Institute is devoted to mainstreaming spirituality in the domains of economics, business, social and human rights, institutions and public policy.
Essential to the type of spirituality the Institute embraces is the creation of a “collective vehicle” so that humanity and all sentient beings find a consistent and coherent path towards full self-realization. Within this context, the Institute pursues charitable, educational and artistic objectives that promote and advance an understanding of the need for human transformation and spirituality — individually and collectively — in order to bring about peace, justice, solidarity, interdependence, equal rights, education, employment, and adequate food, water, and natural and environmental resources for all.
The main aim is to heal the planet and humanity, and thus to heal the world from illnesses of the body, mind and soul. In the public domain, the Institute carries out a large number of activities embedded in several programs and projects.
The management structure has operated, until now, mainly in a virtual way, without buildings or major overheads. Most, if not all, of the work is carried out by volunteers who devote a great deal of time to see that the Institute’s activities are implemented in an impeccable manner.
The Institute carries out charitable activities that enhance human betterment and relieve the suffering of citizens such as the sick, children, youth, women, refugees, indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, and the handicapped.
The Institute enables participants to experience the subtle and gross dimensions of human transformation — for example, the Inner State of Peace. Peace as a state of being must be self-realized: without the self-realization of peace, it would be impossible to transform humanity, as a collective, into a peaceful state. The same applies to every state of being — love, justice, compassion, interdependence, solidarity, equality.
“Healing one-self, in its broadest sense, can only happen as a result of healing nature — and vice-versa. Healing is, in essence, a two-way process of great significance for humanity’s future.”
The Grand Law of Healing
A forum for human rights and responsibilities.
The Institute plans to establish a forum for the promotion of human rights and responsibilities, and to eliminate prejudice and discrimination against everyone in societies around the world — see The People’s Forum on Human Rights and Responsibilities. The Institute also supports educational and training activities in public policy making — domestically and internationally — proposing innovative solutions to eliminate people’s suffering as a result of poverty, ecological destruction, unemployment, social instability, urban and rural decay, starvation, war, famine and marginalization. These public policy proposals are based on human values and individual and collective spirituality, and not on economics and business principles alone.
Why a new paradigm is needed.
Economic, business, institutional, political and social approaches are today subject to a great deal of transformation, particularly in relation to the collective dimensions of development. Many results of this transformation are, today, negative — hence the imperative to redirect the destiny of humanity: rapid environmental destruction; social inequality and growing poverty; the incapacity to protect the collective dimensions of humanity’s destiny; constant movement toward conflict without a real, sustainable world peace; and an exaggerated influence of economics over essentially humanistic and spiritual realities.
Leadership
Alfredo Sfeir-Younis
Full biography maintained on the founder’s personal site.
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