Who We Are
The Inner Safety Project advances the science and practice of inner safety, transforming care in communities shaped by war and disaster.
Being safe and feeling safe are distinct. We work in that space, treating safety as both a catalytic experience and an objective. Feeling safe underpins stabilization, rebuilding, and wholeness. It shapes health and choices. And importantly, the subjective experience of safety dissolves the boundary between inner and outer worlds, demanding work in both spheres to take root.
Through research, we advance the science of safety as a multidimensional construct. Through community programs and practitioner networks, we create pathways for safety to manifest in body, mind, community, spirit, and lived environment.
Safety is essential
Mental health, recovery, and wellbeing are more possible when people feel safe in their bodies, their environments, and their relationships.
Healing is relational
Recovery and health isn’t something people do alone. It happens with others—in families, faith, communities, and shared spaces.
Knowledge is diverse
We trust scientific evidence and honor roles of traditional wisdom, lived experience, and cultural practices that help people heal.
Dignity is non-negotiable
Everyone has the right to be seen, respected, and involved in shaping the care they receive. These beliefs are not just principles. We strive to embody them in how we work. Across our research, partnerships, and programming, we hold ourselves to a set of values:
These beliefs are not just principles—we strive to embody them in how we work. Across our research, partnerships, and programming, we hold ourselves to a set of values:
- Relationship, because healing grows through trust, humility, and deep listening;
- Rigor, because lives are at stake, and our work must be thoughtful, honest, and attuned to evidence across domains;
- And accountability, because we are responsible to the people and communities we serve, and to the realities they live—not to abstract frameworks or institutional agendas.