Our Mission

Phillips Graduate Institute offers educational and training opportunities in the field of human relations to a diverse population of motivated, mature students. Responsive to the changing needs of those they serve, students, graduates and faculty seek to enhance relationships for individuals, couples, families and organizations.


Our Core Values

The Challenge to Grow and Develop
This is applicable at the individual, family and organizational levels. We apply it to ourselves and others.

Collaborative Involvement
This is the catalyst for innovative and effective solutions outside the organization.

Integrity
We encourage the making and honoring of commitments, consistency and wholeness even under challenging circumstances.

Creativity
Institutional support for creativity helps to find new solutions and to look “out-of-the-box” for new opportunities in times of change.

Appreciation for Diversity
We can capitalize on the advantage of differences, learning new ways of doing things from each other.

Contribution to Positive Social Change
Every person involved with Phillips Graduate Institute contributes to the well-being of the community. This contribution, however seemingly small, is eventually reflected at global levels.


Our Diversity Commitment

Phillips’s commitment to diversity includes focused consideration of ethnicity, race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, spiritual or religious beliefs, and disability as factors which have a salient impact on individuals’ and groups’ world views, values, and practices such as recruitment and retention of students, faculty, and staff, and integration of diversity issues into educational, training and community outreach programs. Issues of diversity are central to the ethics and richness which guide the mission of Philips Graduate Institute. The mission’s overarching goal of enhancing relationships among individuals, families, and organizations presents a challenge which Phillips Graduate Institute embraces and integrates in its planning and daily functioning. Accordingly, Philips Graduate Institute’s academic, field training and clinical programs encourage the growth and development of its diverse faculty, staff, students, and service recipients. The integrity of the institution is strengthened by the consistent honoring of diverse individuals, dyads and groups under challenging circumstances. This requires an array of creative approaches to training, service provision, and problem solving in response to the complete needs of a variety of people who are working toward common goals. Institutional support for thinking beyond conventional approaches, involving complementary efforts of people with various world views and skills, has led to cutting edge programs which are effective and highly regarded in the professional community. This, in turn, provides the building blocks for positive changes at various levels of human relationships and social systems.