Founded 1968 Type 501(c)(3) Method Education | Founder Stan Dale Location Petaluma, CA | |
Focus Creating a world where everyone wins | ||
The Human Awareness Institute (HAI), is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Northern California that offers participatory workshops on "Love, Intimacy and Sexuality". The primary workshops are a series of nine, each lasting a weekend. The first five are taken in a linear sequence. The workshops are given worldwide, with regions in Australia, Canada (Ontario), Germany, Spain, United Kingdom and five United States areas: East Coast (Western Massachusetts), Midwest (Michigan), Northern California (Harbin Springs), Rocky Mountain (Colorado), and Southern California.
Founder Stan Dale began teaching workshops in Chicago in 1968. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1972, and incorporated HAI in 1986. In 2005, performance artist and sex educator Annie Sprinkle singled out HAI for offering workshops that integrate communications exercises into the exploration of relationships and sexuality.
The HAI Mission statement: “The Human Awareness Institute (HAI) empowers individuals to be potent, loving, contributing human beings. HAI promotes personal growth and social evolution by replacing ignorance and fear with awareness and love. “HAI aims to create a world where people live together in dignity, respect, understanding, trust, kindness, compassion, reverence, honesty and love. The Human Awareness Institute is committed to creating a world where everyone wins.”