MISSION

The Institute for Cultural Awareness (ICA) is a non-profit corporation providing a safe and healthy environment for cultural exchange and healing. ICA is dedicated to facilitating cultural exchange programs, preserving sacred sites and honoring Indigenous traditions while bridging the gaps between the elders and the children.

VISION

ICA’s endeavors focus on a sustainable multicultural environment offering self awareness, healing, survival skills and communal ways of living thus educating and inspiring new dimensions of spiritual existence and the celebration of life.

PURPOSE

ICA believes that returning to the natural world humanity can live more in harmony with the Earth and focus on planetary transformation by working at the individual and community level creating a conscious global network.

HISTORY

Founded in 1988, ICA has hosted and provided a space for healing services, gatherings, ceremonies, workshops, retreats and sacred pilgrimages throughout North, Central and South America, Australia and Europe. In 2002, ICA elected Adam Yellowbird DeArmon as the new President. With his vision and leadership, Adam took ICA’s mission to a global magnitude.

PRINCIPAL VALUES

• We believe that all people regardless of socio economic conditions have the right to take charge of their life and make decisions for their future.

• We are dedicated to reviving the indigenous traditional ways of living.

• We honor and respect Earth and seek to live in balance with all creation.

• We respect the sacredness of each religion, spiritual expression, and indigenous tradition.

• We uphold equality of all people regardless of race religion, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, etc.

• We value the full range of human diversity and seek to involve our board members, staff, volunteers, and clientele in that diversity.

• We maintain the highest standards of integrity and ethnical conduct, prudent use of resources, together with fair and accurate disclosure of information.

• We believe that everyone has something positive to offer the world, regardless of age or physical condition.

• We provide fair wages and do not condone child labor.

• We make decisions based on how they will affect our future generations.

• We endeavor to have ethics and integrity in everything we create.

OUR FACILITIES

For the past four years, the Institute for Cultural Awareness Center has been situated amongst ~2 acres of private and beautiful creek front property in Cornville, Arizona. For the first time in four years, ICA has been presented with the opportunity to purchase its current facilities and 2 acres of land.

The Institute for Cultural Awareness Center is an expansion of the Earth Dance8 vision with a foundation for the people to come heal, live, learn and grow physically and spiritually. This purchase will provide the organization with a permanent foundation to build on and support the preparations for our upcoming endeavors. Our goal is to raise $333,000 dollars for this initial capital purchase.

The efforts of the Institute for Cultural Awareness Center have extended into our children's schools, elder and autism day care centers and with our animals as we make a difference in our community. Global begins local.

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