Prejudice is an aspect of the human condition. Education and diplomacy are useful, but not enough. Until humankind develops the tools to understand and resolve intergroup conflict it will remain the elephant in every room, in our personal lives and on the world stage.

Our mission is to develop these tools and make them available for everyone; to help each of us develop a greater capacity to see the world through eyes other than our own. In this project we approach the problem from several directions.

Emotional Imprint™ Human Understanding, taught as thought experiments, needs to be integrated into the educational curriculum until it exists on a par with other major subjects in elementary through doctoral programs. We present examples of such a curriculum.

Campaign "They Are Us" Prejudice isn't just about the content of a person's belief system, it's also about his/her style of communicating it. “Thought process differences," typically conceptualized as thought disorders arising from mental illness, exist as a significant but unacknowledged prejudice in our society. Our goal is to explain thought process differences so people outside the mental health professions can better understand one another and initiate alliances and dialogues. We will also confront the media until they stop using words like “psycho” and “crazy” in their headlines and agree to bury those words along with “nigger” and “faggot” of past generations. (Learn about the Campaign "They Are Us" project, "How To Touch A Hot Stove," a feature-length documentary film.)

Waging Dialogue Forums™ Talking openly and honestly with those who don’t share our beliefs is enormously difficult. We have developed a series of closed dialogue groups where people willing to invest the necessary time and energy can confront this painful reality, struggle together to understand why it’s so hard, and develop theoretical, methodological and educational tools to help facilitate such dialogues.

Rocket science begins with elementary math and develops a lengthy educational and research trajectory. Human Understanding is just as difficult and just as complex, but it's equally possible to achieve.

This project represents a first step down that path.

Please join us and help start the movement to bring Human Understanding onto the world stage and the educational curriculum with the full weight, depth and complexity it deserves.

Read a welcome message from Dr. Alice L Maher.