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- EIN 94-6114235
- (831) 250-1022
- 548 Market St San Francisco CA 94104-5401 USA
- www.esalen.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Behavioral Science
Mission: Esalen is a leading center for exploring and realizing human potentialthrough experience, education, and research. We work toward therealization of a more humane world, seeking answers to questions unlikely to be explored by traditional universities and religions. Esalen sponsors pioneering initiatives and offers personal, spiritual, and social transformation programs for residents, interns, and workshop participants.
Programs: Public seminars - each year, esalen holds over 500 workshops on topics ranging from somatic practices and massage to philosophical and scientific inquiry, from psychological process to nature, ecology, and sustainability, from social and political issues to spirituality, from health and healing to arts and creativity. Over 14,000 people were served during the year.
center for theory and research - the esalen center for theory and research supports essential philosophic, academic, and research aims of the esalen institute. It evaluates frontier inquiry, creates networks of pioneering individuals, and works to catalyze new discoveries that promote personal and social transformation. It carries forward projects at the growing edge of philosophy, psychology, comparative religious studies, education, sociology, somatics, the arts, ecology, and related disciplines that bear upon transformative practice and the continued evolution of humankind. Over 300 people were served during the year.
work study program - a four-week residential program, the work study program offers an intense involvement with the esalen environments and an in-depth experience of the esalen approach to holistic personal and social development through an integrated work and study model. Over 300 people were served during the year.