Heartland Initiative, Inc. now Core Integrity, Inc.
Executive Director Lowell Routley announces that the organization has adopted a new name: Core Integrity, Inc.
Incorporated in 2002 as Heartland Initiative, Inc., Dr. Routley explained his rationale to Heartland’s Advisory Board of Directors: “In the process of refining – and, in some respects, redefining – this organization, I’ve come to the conclusion that a name change is imperative. ‘Heartland’ was more a descriptor of our place of origin – the heartland of America – than our mission and purpose. Core Integrity will better describe what we do:
…provide people wounded in mind and spirit, the method and means to reclaim personal integrity from which to heal, grow, and thrive.
That reclamation effort begins with rediscovering and identifying Core Self, that central component of identity.” Routley explained that he has long held the belief that there is a unique part of every human being (Core Self), as a result of God’s creation, that endures in spite of whatever circumstances we encounter. He also described the name change as a natural fit because the organization’s website has been www.coreintegrity.org since its founding. (The Advisory Board voted during its November 2009 meeting to approve the recommended change.)
Psychological and spiritual components
Incorporated in 2002 as Heartland Initiative, Inc., Core Integrity was founded to address the challenges that extreme trauma and torture presents to survivors and clinicians.
Psychologically:
The Core Integrity Model -
Hope for healing from extreme trauma.
...recovering from life's deepest wounds.
There are around 3,000,000 survivors of extreme trauma in the United States alone. (Globally, there are many more.) Most will experience difficulties in sustaining relationships, career, health, and above all a sense of self. While treatment has made great strides since 1970, it is still a long-term process with far-from-assured results. The ones who are in treatment will receive a range of services from outpatient counseling to inpatient stabilization. Those services can personally cost the survivor more than $50,000 and will still come up short.
Dr. Lowell Routley, a clinical mental health counselor has been working quietly on a stage-based treatment model for trauma survivors since 1987. The Core Integrity Model was expanded 1998 with the collaboration of Mr. Jim McCarthy, a social movements researcher. Providing interventions for extreme trauma, the Core Integrity Model has proven to greatly reduce the need for hospitalization, the severity of symptoms, and has simplified the process of healing. Core Integrity, Inc. provides training and consultation for therapists and survivors through Heartland Trauma Institute. These programs teach the Core Integrity Model which consists of tools for effective treatment, as well as provides consultation to resolve therapeutic impasses.
Spiritually:
Reclaiming Identity, Restoring the Soul -
A series of eStudies on spiritual formation
for individual and community.
...living from who you were meant to be.
More recently, Dr. Routley has formalized the spiritual component of the Core Integrity Model with the central premise being that "each individual born into this world is endowed by his/her Creator with a unique identity."This unique identity (or Core Self) was made in the Creator’s image. The traditional view of the "Image of God" in Judeo-Christian theology identifies will, intellect, emotion as the Creator's imprint on humanity. The presence of moral judgment in humanity is viewed as evidence of the likeness of God. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_of_God)
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and, thereby, has the capacity to make choices honoring to the Creator.Core Self is the descriptor used to spotlight this sense of identity.As life experience intensifies stress, or inflicts harm, Core Self construes what kind of person the context demands, what the rules are for that specific social role, and becomes that to be accepted, protected, and validated."
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Values statement
Core Integrity is driven by the following foundational beliefs:All human beings manifest a unique personal identity through physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and spiritual means that we call “Core Self."
When events occur that are outside of the range of daily, normative, human experience, our “Core” self is innately endowed with qualities of mind for survival of what is known as “trauma.”
If the traumatic event(s) is/are purposefully engineered and enacted by fellow human beings for their own self-serving ends, disallowing the victim a personal choice, the injuries to one’s Core Self severely impact the existential qualities of one’s humanity. In this traumatic social context, one’s beliefs, feelings, identity, and purpose belongs to the authority figure thereby disallowing the manifest existence of one’s Core Self from extreme trauma and/or torture. The survivors of extreme trauma and torture in seeking help to reclaim Core Self have been misunderstood, misdiagnosed, misjudged, and “miss”-treated by mental health professionals lacking understanding of the impact of incidental, let alone extreme trauma.These survivors are often highly intelligent, creative, functioning individuals who have learned to mask their suffering to pass in “normal” society.
These individuals have the right to effective, affordable treatment by which they may recover from injuries to mind, body, and spirit.
What you'll find on our site
Timely information on extreme trauma for those dealing with its results: families, individuals, therapists and other helping professionals.
Information on extreme trauma and the survivors.
Training opportunities in a new and highly effective treatment for survivors of trauma based on the Core Integrity Model: Interventions for Extreme Trauma.
Resources therapists and survivors can use in stalled recovery.
How you can help survivors get the help they need to heal from the atrocities they've experienced with your personal and financial support.
— Teaching others about CORE SELF: our authentic identity —
