OUR MISSION STATEMENT:
OUR MISSION IS TO help You to add structure To Your Devotee Care initiatives.
- By ensuring that the virtue of vaishnava care pervades all aspects of the ISKCON Society.
- By supporting and providing specific care-giving services that enhance the spiritual, emotional, physical and social well-being of all ISKCON members.
Where each devotee in your community:
- Responsibly looks after his or her diverse needs
- Easily and successfully seeks qualified help within the Society, and
- Wholeheartedly extends that care to others.
OUR VISION STATEMENT:
“Our VISION is simple, we want every devotee to be spiritually happy, materially well-situated, and positively identifying with ISKCON as a caring Society.”
Upcoming Devotee Care Activities
Devotee Care Course at ISKCON Sacramento, CA
13th – 15th September 2024
Devotee Care Course at ISKCON New Jersey
19th – 22th Sep 2024
Devotee Care Course at ISKCON Goa
23rd – 27th Nov 2024
Devotee Care Tester Course at ISKCON Tokyo
Sep 2024
Thoughts from Devotee Care
The 12 Areas of Devotee Care
1. Spiritual Life “…if you take spiritual care, the bodily care is automatically done. Our main business is spiritual care." (SP Morning Walk Bombay, 03/11/1975) “These are the instruction in the Bhagavad-gita, everything [is] practical. If we follow Bhagavad-gita...
4 Core Coaching Skills for Caregivers
(Adapted from the Devotee Care Course student handbook) It is desirable, wherever feasible, that caregivers in ISKCON are themselves devotees. Nevertheless, caring devotees must exhibit appropriate values and conduct, and be knowledgeable and expert in their...
The 12 Recipients of Devotee Care
1. Women “In the glorious days, or before the advent of the age of Kali, the brahmanas, the cows, the women, thechildren and the old men were properly given protection...To insult a chaste woman means to bring aboutdisaster in the duration of life.” (SB 1.8.5 -...