Our mission is to cultivate place, nurture community, and co-create experiences which grow our human capacity for compassionate, courageous action. To cultivate place, nurture community, and co-create experiences which grow our human capacity for compassionate, courageous action. OUR GUIDING PURPOSE To serve as a home for ongoing inquiry, learning, and transformation in response to the unprecedented challenges of our time—environmental, technological, social, moral, spiritual—and the call for a human response commensurate with our responsibility. The Whidbey Institute is as rich and complex as the thousands of individuals and organizations we serve. Here, we strive to show the variety of people, experiences, work, and perspectives that engage here.