Our Core Values

At the heart of Project Oak’s mission and daily work are our Core Values—the living foundation upon which we make decisions, cultivate our community, and design and deliver every program. These values serve as our compass.

1. Child First Focus

We make every decision with our children as our number one and most important focus. We make our decisions based upon what will support the highest level of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well being of the child.

2. Compassionate Authenticity

We show up authentically and compassionately among each other, with our partners, and throughout our programming for the sake of promoting an environment where all are welcome as their True Selves, invited to share their unique gifts, and embraced with love, understanding, and respect. Truth and compassion shape every action of Project Oak.

3. Balanced Innovation

We balance advancing technologies with timeless, ancient knowledge providing an innovation that is balanced, diverse, and rooted — for the benefit of our children, communities, organization, and partners.

4. Playfulness

We express ourselves in a professionally playful spirit, cultivating an environment of creativity, connection, deep learning, and childlike curiosity that allows us to provide an innovative, friendly, and heart warming organization, and programming, for all who we encounter.

5. Loving Transparency

We operate with full transparency throughout the organization, cultivating an environment of powerful organizational development, personal growth within the culture, and programming that is fed by the hearts of all instead of the minds of few.

6. Rooted Wisdom

We operate with the knowledge that unification among all creates the strongest organizational mindset, the most wisdom-rich programming, and the most sustainable path for centuries’ worth of impact. We blend the ancient wisdom of eastern philosophy with the evolving psychology of western modernity.

7. Perfect Righteousness

We know that at the core of each person is a perfectly loving, honest, compassionate, peaceful, and powerful being. Through our values, relationships, and mission we aim to nurture the blossoming of perfect righteousness for the collective consciousness. Together, we are creating a world of natural justice, of perfect righteousness.

Adopted by the Board of Directors on October 16, 2025.