The International Foundation for Holistic Education was founded in 1992 by Dr. Ramon Gallegos Nava in Guadalajara, Mexico, to spread holistic education in Mexico and Latin America as a response to a current crisis in environmental degradation due to a mechanicist education which has trained human beings to have a predatory consciousness. The Fundacion seeks the emergence of a new planetary consciousness through a new educational paradigm of wholeness and nature, that allows us to teach human beings to live together in a responsible way in sustainable communities. To overcome predatory consciousness based on greed, materialism, and self-centeredness, the Foundation believes that it is important to know our true nature as human beings. The core of holistic education is our genuine spirituality understanding this in a non-dogmatic way. Spirituality is our true nature which leads us to have a sentiment of gratitude for life and reverence for our planet in which we live.
Holistic education is a pedagogy of universal love towards all beings.
The International Foundation for Holistic Education organises an annual international conference on Holistic Education in Mexico.