OFFICIAL SITE FOR JERRY JAMPOLSKY AND DIANE CIRINCIONE




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Dr. Jerry Jampolsky, a child and adult psychiatrist, is the founder of Attitudinal Healing and the first model Center for Attitudinal Healing in 1975 in Tiburon, California. Dr. Diane Cirincione, a therapist and private entrepreneur, joined Dr. Jampolsky in 1981 and together they work in affiliation with the independent Centers and Groups for Attitudinal Healing located on five continents.
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The Jampolsky Outreach Foundation (JOF) was originally founded in 1979 to supplement the work of the first Center of Attitudinal Healing.

One of the children, who came to the Center with his family for support, had his leg amputated as a result of cancer. The family’s insurance company paid for the first prostheses, but did not allow payment for additional ones as he grew. Thus, the foundation was born to support those in need.

Since then, Drs. Jampolsky and Cirincione, in the name of the Jampolsky Outreach Foundation, respond to a broad spectrum of challenges facing individuals, couples, families, organizations, and communities. They have served chronically ill and life-threatened children and adults and their families; health care professionals; government officials and legislators; principles, teachers, students and their schools; couples and families; prisoners; those working with racial healing and the roots of discriminations; religious leaders; the elderly; those facing loss and grief; indigenous peoples; inner city of incarcerated youth; and victims of disasters, crises and trauma.

While there are numerous areas in which JOF continues to serve, the common thread that unites them is clear and consistent. Namely, the principles of Attitudinal Healing transcend situational differences, customs and cultures, religions and races, and are the cornerstones of how to practically apply universal spiritual principles in everyday life.

Attitudinal Healing

	Regards our primary identity as spiritual beings and that the essence of our inner nature is love.
	Defines true ‘health’ as inner peace and ‘healing’ as the letting go of fear.
	Offers the willingness to find another way of looking at the world, at life, and at death.
	Views everyone as equal students and teachers to each other, recognizing that we can learn something from everyone we meet.
	Teaches that forgiveness is the key to happiness through healing our relationships with all others and with ourselves.
	Experiences love as the most powerful source of healing in the world.
	Views the purpose of all communication as joining and regards happiness as a choice.
	Recognizes that we are all worthy of love and that happiness is our own responsibility as well as our natural state of being.
	Affirms that it is not other people or circumstances outside ourselves that cause us to be in conflict or upset. Rather, it is our own thoughts, feelings, judgments, and attitudes about people and events that cause us distress.
	Discovers the negative affect that holding on to grievances, blaming others, and condemning ourselves has, so that we can choose to no longer find value in them.
	Asserts that when we let go of fear, only love remains and love is the answer to all the problems we face in life.
	Recognizes that we can choose to perceive ourselves and others as one of two ways; either loving, or as fearful, giving a call for help. Fear is shown as anger, rage, violence, etc., towards others and ourselves.
	Sets the goal of inner peace and living a life focused on unconditional love.
	Supports the notion that as we reach our own hand out into the darkness to help another back into the light…we discover that it is our own.
	Introduces the dynamics of personal choice and total responsibility for healing our own minds and for having harmony and integrity in all that we think say and do.

The core of Attitudinal Healing is that rather than trying to change other people, we focus on changing our own minds. In order to experience peace in the world, it first must begin within ourselves. When inner peace is achieved by replacing the destructive feeling generated by fear, our outer world also changes. As each of us heals, the world heals with us.

JOF is a 501(C) (3) non-profit organization formed in 1979 and is funded by private donors and foundation grants.

The first Center for Attitudinal Healing, founded by Dr. Jampolsky in 1975, has served over 40,000 children, adolescents, and adults free of charge. He created the peer Support Group model for use with chronic or life-threatening illness. This model has expanded to multi-faceted applications around the world.

Three brothers with hemophilia contracted the AIDS virus. They helped JOF launch the award winning poster, “I have AIDS. Please hug me. I can’t make you sick…” It has been translated by UNESCO and WHO into 15 languages. JOF spanned 27 countries to educate people, organizations and governments about the psycho-social-spiritual aspects of HIV/AIDS.

Beijing, Peoples Republic of China. Children As Teachers Of Peace, a 10 year international project of JOF, created the opportunity for children from ethnically and racially diverse populations to travel and work together to further understanding and peace in the world.

JOF worked with religious leaders on reconciliation in Bihac, Boxnia, helping facilitate inner and outer conflict resolution amongst warring factions.

Acra, West Africa. Jerry and Diane become students of local villages who offered them the gift of dance in return for Attitudinal Healing, which helped settle their tribal disputes.

Liard First Nation People – Kaska and, Yukon Territories. JOF continues to respond to the invitation of indigenous people to assist with tribal and societal healing.

President of the National House of Chiefs of Ghana, West Africa, formally honoring Attitudinal Healing as a model to enhance Ghanaian ability to deal with a variety of challenges including land disputes and educating about life saving hygiene and malaria.

JOF bridged the gap for children ages 7 to 17 from 37 states to learn for themselves how to dissolve cultural barriers that interfered with open communication with the people of the Soviet Union (now Russia). Early pioneers in Glasnost, these young ambassadors learned to confront “the faces of the enemy” as well as their own fears and to share their personal experiences with others.