Commonweal is a nonprofit health and environmental research institute in Bolinas, California. Founded in 1976, Commonweal conducts programs that contribute to human and ecosystem health — to a safer world for people and for all life. We do that through a program focus in four areas:



* We help people with cancer through the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, a weeklong residential support program for people with cancer, and through the Commonweal Cancer Project, our resource and educational work for cancer patients and health professionals.

* Through the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness, we help physicians, medical students and other health professionals who wish to restore the principles of healing to the practice of medicine and practice with a deeper sense of meaning, satisfaction and lineage. ISHI conducts faculty development trainings for Healer`s Art faculty, healing workshops for the public, and CME workshops and retreats for physicians at the Commonweal site. ISHI `s Healer`s Art curriculum is presently offered in 35 medical schools.

* We help children and young adults in the juvenile justice system through the Commonweal Juvenile Justice Program, which advocates for reforms in California juvenile justice.

* We support local, national and international initiatives that contribute to human health and a healthy environment, including the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, Health Care Without Harm, the Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Center, the Commonweal Garden, the Commonweal Fair Growth Program, and the Commonweal Ocean Policy Program.



An integral part of Commonweal`s work is done at the Commonweal Retreat Center which houses up to twenty people. The Retreat Center is available for personal or professional retreats, conferences and workshops when not in use for Commonweal programs.