Eric Greene

Safe, nurturing, and joyful families
give rise to a more peaceful and communal world.

Portrait Of Multi-Generation Family Group With Dog On Winter Beach Vacation

Family Spirals® creates programs addressing family identity, cohesion, trauma, and joy. We also focus on the impact that social, environmental, and economic problems have on families, and ways that families may ameliorate them. Such themes are also highlighted through our virtual art galleries and programs.

We are committed to supporting family experiences that are safe, meaningful, relaxed, and healthful. (Learn more about our Mission and Core Values.)

By taking an interdisciplinary approach, Family Spirals® applies research from the social sciences, humanities, health sciences, and ecology in order to find the best solutions to family problems.

Through our open access Family Dynamics Clearinghouse & Virtual Art Galleries we address some of the most stigmatized, marginalized, and complicated issues within families, including:

  • Sibling aggression, sibling abuse, sibling rivalry and sibling revelry
  • The links between the mistreatment of pets, other animals and various forms of family violence
  • In-law conflicts
  • Technology and family connectedness
  • Tensions between parents and teens

As a capacity-building provider, we develop programs in order to provide educational trainings and resources to professionals and volunteers who work with families, as well as to families themselves. With appropriate community and institutional support, most families can manage various problems – we help to provide those supports.

As a cultural institution, our programs and activities are infused with the arts which provide a salve to the problems and traumas that may otherwise be too painful or uncomfortable to confront. The arts also help build empathy and understanding with family struggles and joys faced by others within our communities as well as in other cultures.

As a think tank, we will conduct research and make policy recommendations that reflect a holistic understanding of family dynamics, respect the integrity of families, and support the wellbeing of families cross-culturally.