Our Mission

Our Council is here to promote healthy, wholesome balances. We do this by helping people understand the important opposites, or polar principles that are present in their life, so they might be balanced in more productive, healthy, inspired ways.
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Our 4 Element Perspective

Our Council’s holistic, four element perspective sets us apart from other civic and health-oriented groups. You may be wondering, “What is four element thinking — and how does it relate to holistic ways of thinking, and to wellness in particular?” Learn More →
Applying the 4 Elements to You

As our council introduces Greater Syracuse to more holistic ways of thinking it will be done with an eye toward helping people like yourself increase their level of health, and body, mind, and spirit wellness. Learn More →
Our Vision
Imagine a Syracuse that has chosen a path that leads to a Time Magazine front cover five years from now announcing, “Have You Heard What They’re Doing Up There In Syracuse?”
It would be about how we as a city challenged ourselves to become more “holistic”. And as we did so, we would have helped to define a new movement toward what would be called “holistic balance”. It would be a civic movement in which we more fully met the challenges of our modern times—everything from childhood obesity and ever–increasing health care costs, to a world of overwrought materialism with the loss of connectedness to the natural world. Read More →