Mission Statement

Our mission is to improve the quality of life worldwide by empowering individuals and communities to identify and acquire the skills, training, and technologies needed to solve critical problems such as access to pure water, adequate housing, energy and food.

Recognizing that the quality of one's life depends not only on one's outer comfort, but on one's inner experience of well-being, we seek to restore an appreciation of basic human values by incorporating self-development training and humanitarian service as fundamental components of all our programs.

Our goal is to empower local communities to achieve sustainable results by restoring a sense of belonging and responsibility to each individual - and to facilitate the acquisition of appropriate technologies and training through our worldwide network of donors and volunteers who serve by bringing their energy and skills to help fulfill the objectives identified by local people.

By cultivating and nurturing basic human values, and a feeling of belonging and responsibility not just for ourselves, but for the entire human family, we hope to restore that sense of wonder and amazement we all experienced as children.

This is the true W.O.W. mission - to bring back that sense of wonder to every human heart.

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W.O.W. joined people from over 145 countries to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Art of Living Foundation in Bangalore, India from February 17-19, 2006.

The "Silver Jubilee" celebration included more than 1000 distinguished business, political and spiritual leaders from around the world who are dedicated to the promotion of human values at all levels of society.

Never in human history has there been a gathering of so many people from so many cultures joining together in silent meditation. More than 8 million people attended.