We seek to replace systems of punishment with paradigms grounded in healing, relationship, compassion, and love. 

We strive to build and maintain anti-racist, anti-carceral, and anti-oppressive frameworks in our work.

There is no one curriculum, one way, or one model that can capture the spirit of transformation or be the answer to change — we honor each person's agency, their socio-cultural context, and the multiple ways of knowing, healing, and transforming. 

We aim to strengthen communities — not systems. Our work supports the wisdom, practices, and liberation of communities with lived experience. 

Our work intersects with various fields and movements, including reentry from incarceration, restorative and transformative justice, indigenous peacemaking, and land-based healing. 

If our social conditions change or our work becomes harmful, The Ahimsa Collective is not attached to being a physical organization. 

Each day, we hope to act with the patience of a thousand years and the urgency of tomorrow.