The greater mercy foundation

our mission

With nature as our greatest resource and guide, The Greater Mercy Foundation (TGMF) provides educational, experiential, and transformational opportunities for the mind, body, and spirit. In partnership and collaboration with our community, we provide programs and services that support mental wellbeing and cultivate courageous leaders. 

Our Vision

It is our vision to create and strengthen community connections within the context of our interdependence with each other and nature. Our vision is a community vision being shaped by intergenerational gatherings, thoughtful voices, and deep listening. Our projects are inspired by these gatherings that we call Wisdom Circles.

Our Projects

With a focus on mental health and wellness, we provide support to our school community and the community at-large. We offer the difference, meeting the needs and filling the gaps in services and systems so that there is more balance and stability during this time of great transition and transformation.

The Greater Mercy Foundation projects promote mental health and wellness, and address the service gaps within the greater Wimberley area through four levels of care. 

1) Prevention & Development: Our wellness and mental health projects begin with preventative services that build resilience and skills for emotional regulation and relationship building. These foundational elements build community connections so we can live, work, and thrive mutually and sustainably in an ever-changing world.

2) Intervention: We serve and connect adults, youth, and children with local professionals offering education, intervention, and crisis services. We are currently expanding services to directly provide high-quality, sliding-scale mental healthcare in the Wimberley community.

3) Crisis Services: When traumatic and crisis events occur, we respond through a two-tiered approach to address the immediate needs after a crisis event and with follow-up care and referrals in the weeks and moths after an event occurs for individuals impacted by a traumatic event.

4) Care and Supervision for Professionals: For those who provide important and critical care for others in our community, maintaining a regular self-care routine is crucial. We offer 1) weekly care opportunities for educators through free yoga classes. 2) rejuvenating, nature-based retreats for mental health practitioners, wellness providers, and educators to replenish mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual capacities, and 3) opportunities for supervision, support, and development for mental health professionals. 

Wisdom Circles are our model for developing current and new projects. When a need in our community becomes known, and it is within our capacity and scope of work, we call a Wisdom Circle together. These gatherings are small, intimate discussions with key stakeholders and visionaries. We see the work together from many angles in order to develop important project questions and components. This process has allowed our work to develop thoughtfully, timely, and effectively.