Common Bond Institute Cbi

 Climax     Michigan

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Common Bond Institute CBI Charity Profile

Common Bond Institute (CBI) is a U.S. based Non-Governmental Organization that grew out of the Association for Humanistic Psychology's International (Soviet-American) Professional Exchange. The Professional Exchange was initiated in 1982 as one of the first Soviet-American non-governmental human service exchanges. CBI organizes and sponsors conferences, professional training programs, relief efforts, and professional exchanges internationally, and actively provides networking and coordination support to assist newly emerging human service and civil society organizations in developing countries.

Cultivating the fundamental elements of a consciousness of peace, and local capacity building, are seen as natural, effective antidotes to small group radical extremism and large group despair, as well as to hardship and suffering in the human condition. To this end, enabling each society to effectively resolve and transform conflicts, satisfy core human needs within their communities, and construct effective, holistic mechanisms for self determination, self esteem, and fundamental human dignity and worth is the purpose of our work.

CBI is grounded in the application of humanistic psychology's principles in it's commitment to capacity building at both the grass roots and social institutional level. It works to actively form strategic alliances and partnerships with organizations, groups, and individuals dedicated to nurturing global relationships as a whole in creating and promoting an authentic world culture of peace.

Common Bond Institute CBI Volunteer Information

Internships and volunteer opportunities with CBI are available year round that can be custom-designed to match your skills and interests with the needs of our international programs. The nature of this work - reaching out to people all over the world, lends itself to being done long distance, particularly given access available through the Internet. Face to face experiences such as participating directly in the ICR Conference in Russia are also available.

VOLUNTEER placements offer meaningful professional work experience that can be documented for resumes, unique opportunities to meet and work with leading edge international thinkers and practitioners, contacts with organizations throughout the world that can potentially open job opportunities, and rich personal experiences.