Promoting Good Values, Personal Growth, and Self-Awareness Since 1968
The PAAK Foundation provides educational and personal development programs through a variety of teaching modalities in various settings. The common purpose throughout all programs is to assist participants in becoming healthy, self-reliant, productive, responsible, and ethical individuals who will make a positive contribution to their family, their local community, and the global community.
The PAAK Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation of Arizona, is divided into headquarters and divisions.
The Reevis Mountain School Division
Provides a place of inspiration, peace, and reverence for nature, where, in a magical remote wilderness setting, students and interns can learn natural healing and self-reliance skills, experience growing their own food, develop spiritual awareness, enjoy a spirit of community, and live healthfully.
Executive Director: Peter "Bigfoot" Busnack
Email Contact: info@reevismountain.org
Motto: Live what you love
Joined PAAK: 1980
Activities: We teach and promote self-reliance and nature awareness through (1) offering classes and lectures on wilderness survival, natural healing, meditation, and homestead living skills, (2) providing an example of a working off-the-grid homestead, (3) growing healthy organic food for ourselves and for the market, (4) producing and selling herbal remedies formulated by Peter Bigfoot, (5) offering work-exchange internships, and (6) publishing books about herbology and natural healing. RMS is a place of inspiration and peace, providing a space to develop spiritual awareness and foster personal health, wisdom, and joy.
Website: www.reevismountain.org
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Divisions
The 123Go! Division
Provides outdoor programs for teenagers to discover their inner strengths; develop self-esteem; enhance communication skills; recognize the value of others; and provide the skills to create a nonviolent community.
123Go!
Executive Director: Janet Drake
Email Contact: garyjanet111@msn.com
Motto: Outdoor adventures, inner journeys
Joined PAAK: 2000
Activities: Rappelling, canoeing, hiking, caving, and building waterholes for animals
Website: www.1-2-3-go---az.org to connect