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Our Work
Offers the difference
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.
What We Do & How We Work
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 gaps in services and systems so that there is more balance, stability, and connection especially during times of transition and transformation.
We have been working at the request of the community since 2017. Our projects have at least one or more community partners, and we work collaboratively with our partners to achieve community determined goals and outcomes.
Our projects develop co-creative leaders, promote mental health and wellness, address the service gaps within the greater Wimberley area, and support wellness for mental health practitioners. Our work encompasses several tiers of service and development:
Leadership
Collaborative Leadership Development: Our wellness and mental health projects begin with preventative services that develop resilience and skills for emotional regulation and relationship building. These foundational elements strengthen community connections so we can live, work, and thrive mutually and sustainably in an ever-changing world. Our Co-Creative Guides mentor through projects that provide opportunities to practice self-care, experience empowerment, and lead collaboratively.
Connection
Intervention & Crisis Services: 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. As the contracted mental health organization for the school district, when traumatic and crisis events occur, we respond through a two-tiered approach to address the immediate needs after a crisis event and offer follow-up care and referrals in the weeks and months after for individuals impacted by a traumatic event.
Care
Care and Supervision for Professionals: For professionals 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
Wisdom Circles are our model and mode 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 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 while allowing for the unknown to unfold within and because of those gathered.
Community Connections: T.H.E. Meeting
Are you looking for a therapist, healer, educator? Are you a therapist, healer, or educator looking to connect with others professionally? It is part of our mission to develop community and create connections. If you or someone you care for is in need of therapy, counseling, body or energy work, educational support, please give us a call. We are here to connect you with local providers that best meet your specific circumstances. We also aim to establish a deep professional network so that together we can support each other and make the best referrals for clients or potential clients. Call us.
