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The
Biological Mangrove Seed Forms A Universal Ecosystem Growing Around Our Planet
The Mangrove Seed name was chosen as the corporate title to indicate a metaphor for the human journey from child to adult.
The actual journey of a biological mangrove seed is truly a unique story.
It can float thousands of miles, and through many violent ocean storms, before it sets down its taproot. In time, it grows into a island of many trees.
  
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There are basic three types of mangrove trees, red, black, and white. They form an ecological community that not only provides for their own survival and growth, but also provides a home for sea and bird life that make their home on the mangrove islands.
The Mangrove Seed Institute uses the actual journey of the mangrove seed as a metaphor to represent the human journey from child to adult.
And, to illustrate the unique adapative biological integration of plant, fish, and bird life into a single, holistic, sustainable, ecological system of life.
This unique cooperative and integrated mangrove biological ecosystem can serve as a model for human peaceful living.
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The
Mangrove Seed Organization Sprouted From A Personal Journey
The journey of the mangrove seed is also a metaphor for the personal journey of the founder of the Mangrove Seed Institute.
He has incorporated his life lessons about balancing fear with trust into a psycho-social educational theory of personal development.
He founded the 501 (c)3 not-for-profit educational corporation, Mangrove Seed, Inc., to continue his personal development and to pass-on his lessons to the world.
The educational program of Mangrove Seed,Inc. is founded on a theory of balancing fear versus trust.
The Mangrove Seed Institute believes that fear is the major underpinning to emotional blocks that stunt personal and social growth.
Moreover, it believes that fear separates humans from each other, and social groups from each other. And, that fear has separated humans from their outer natural environment!
The necessity for an everyday personal balancing of fear and trust is fundamental, universal, and permeates the fabric of all human existence.
The Mangrove Seed Institute educational program for both adults and children focuses on nine principles as a way to dissect our belief systems to identify our basic fears.
As our fears are consciously challenged in every moment of our daily lives, we can move into a flow of balance with trust.
The benefits of practical application of these nine principles are a release of personal stress, increased self confidence, and genuine caring for others.
Ultimately, a personal peaceful coping consciousness can be the starting point for planetary peaceful living!
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The Mangrove
Seed Institute is a holistic educational learning center for wellness
and peaceful living. The conception of the Seed was over
15 years ago in the form of a coffee shop/bookstore designed
for people in traditional 12-Step recovery programs.
After
years of development, the final organizational plan was completed
in 2000 at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Louisville, KY and at
the birthplace of Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
in Dorset, VT.
In 2004 the Mangrove Seed took a tangible legal form and was established
as a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation. It is eligible for tax-deductible
contributions and considered as a public charity by the Internal
Revenue Service.
Also, in 2004, the Mangrove Seed began to offer holistic educational
learning, experiential practice, and advocacy for peaceful living.
The original vision and mission which focused on traditional recovery
from substance and process addictions was then broadened to include
anyone in recovery, those who are recovered, and those never in traditional recovery.
The enhanced learning program of the Mangrove Seed is now available
to anyone seeking peaceful daily living.
In 2005 and 2006, annual conferences for peaceful living were held
at Dayspring, a spiritual retreat center, in southwest Florida.
A CLARIFICATION
The Mangrove Seed is not allied with, nor endorses any person
or organization; and, it does not represent any religious, political,
social, economic, and psychological creed, theory, and dogma.
The Mangrove Seed supports only non-prejudicial, universally
applicable, and honestly sincere dialogue about peaceful daily
living.
The Mangrove Seed respectfully honors the peaceful living traditions
of all peoples on the planet.
Although the focus of the Mangrove Seed Institute has changed over the years, the educational program of the Mangrove Seed continues to be a useful support system for those in traditional recovery.
It introduces
holistic alternative recovery pathways for the maintenance of long
term emotional recovery and consistent peaceful living for the
person who has been “treated" and “recovered” during
early years of personal change.
The program of the Mangrove Seed Institute reflects a 21st century enhancement
of the historical patterns of treatment for addictions and emotional/mental
illness. It complements an emerging
model for the long term, continuing support system for substance and process addictions.
For the traditional 12-Step recovery person, the
Mangrove Seed represents a tiny embryo in the evolution of the
New Recovery Movement (see William White, Slaying the Dragon,
1998). It offers an emerging model for the LONG TERM, continuing
support system of treatment for a chronic mental disorder: compulsive
thinking which leads to substance / process addictions.
This expanded time horizon approach coupled with on-going,
local recovery support, not “emergency treatment,” also
introduces holistic alternative recovery pathways for the person
who has been “treated” and “recovered” during
the early years of stabilization from addictions.
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One
of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson,
realized that the original 12-Step program was only a short-term program of stabilization and
re-entry into daily living.
"I think that many oldsters
who have put our “booze cure” to severe
but successful tests still find they often lack
EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY."
"Perhaps they will be the spearhead
for the next major development in AA—The development
of much more real maturity and balance."
Bill Wilson
The Grapevine, January, 1958
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The
Mangrove Seed Fills A Void
In Long Term Traditional Recovery
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After almost 70 years since the original 12-Step
program was introduced, the current needs of persons with long
term traditional recovery (10 or more years) seem to indicate that
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Traditional 12-Step meetings often lack relevant,
daily support for emotional balance and peaceful living
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Plateaus in personal transformation and individual
patterns of growth are not sufficiently recognized
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Changing life situations often cause relapse
to addictions, but this relapse is not differentiated from initial
recovery in terms of methodology and techniques
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Emerging alternative holistic recovery alternatives
offer a missing ingredient to traditional recovery
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Substantial scientific research since the
1930’s
is clarifying the difference between the “abuser” and
the truly “chemically dependent” recovery person.
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New bio-psycho-spiritual modalities for long
term, transformative recovery offer improved probabilities of
success.
The curriculum of the Mangrove Seed supports ONLY “middle” (5-10 years) and “mature sobriety” (beyond 10
years).
The Mangrove Seed is a FOUNDING MEMBER of Faces And Voices Of Recovery, the major authoritative voice for the New Recovery Movement.
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The Mantra of The Mangrove
Seed
When I do not live from
inner peace,
it is because my rational self interprets,
based upon my past resentments and future fears,
some person, place, thing, situation, or outcome
as being ONLY the way it wants me to be
in this present moment.
However, when my authentic, balanced S(s)elf accepts
my life situation,
as it unfolds in the present moment,
with an interpretation by BOTH the trusting intuitive-mind-(S)
and the fearing rational-mind-(s),
i can maintain inner peace.
dan kapica
founder
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