Our mission
The Power to Heal®
Soaringwords’ mission is to inspire people to take active roles in self-healing to experience greater physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
Soaringwords’ SOARING Into Positive Wellbeing Initiative is a seven-module program which integrates the latest science from leading Positive Psychology experts, utilizes immersive workbooks, and provides an engaging pay-it-forward project.
Soaringwords collaborates with long-term care facilities, municipalities, health and human service agencies, community organizations, educational organizations, hospitals, health care systems, and companies to create substantive change through turn-key solutions that support physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
No other organization has synthesized such a wide array of relevant findings from wellbeing science into an award-winning, accessible workshop series.
Our goal is impact—the greatest impact possible. In 2012, Soaringwords codified its unique approach into the SOARING Into Positive Wellbeing scientific model, which was published in 2013. This empirical data has been presented at 17 international scientific conferences and featured in leading media.
Since 2000, Soaringwords’ interventions have been shared with more than 500,000 people. The SOARING Into Positive Wellbeing Initiative includes seven virtual workshops led by Soaringwords’ CEO & Founder Lisa Honig Buksbaum, integrating the latest science from leading Positive Psychology experts.
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Our story
How Soaringwords Was Born
After three life-changing encounters with death and illness occurred in Soaringwords’ CEO & Founder’s family in the span of ten months, Lisa Honig Buksbaum knew that she had to do something to help millions of ill children, families, and adults to “Never give up!” One day while walking along the ocean during the height of her son’s catastrophic illness, she had a calling and heard the name “Soaringwords.”
Suddenly, she knew why she was born and was determined to create an organization to provide healing tools that could bolster the physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing for people facing challenges. Soaringwords was founded in 2000 to inspire hospitalized children, their families, and their health care providers to take active roles in self-healing.
In 2019, the nonprofit pivoted and now provides programs which benefit adult individuals in long-term care facilities, hospitals, employee wellness programs, educational programs, K–12 schools, universities, companies, and health care systems through the SOARING Into Positive Wellbeing Initiative.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
Four Focus Areas
Explore how Soaringwords brings positive wellbeing practices to communities, organizations, and people navigating life’s challenges.
The book
SOARING into Strength
Since she was a child, Lisa wanted to help. As an adult, three experiences with death and illness occurred in her family in just ten months. Instead of becoming irrevocably damaged, she discovered her calling and channeled her passion and resilience into a global movement that would inspire millions of people to never give up.
Wherever you are within your journey, this debut memoir provides illumination and inspiration as you seek to become the best version of yourself, even in the face of overwhelming obstacles.Learn more about the book
Stories of impact
Testimonials
SOARING into Strength: Silicon Valley Year-Long Initiative was launched in Silicon Valley in October 2020. Over the course of one year, 23 virtual workshops were shared with hundreds of participants. This is what participants had to say about the workshops.
Pay it forward
Help More People Discover the Power to Heal®
Your generous contribution enables Soaringwords to create unique workshops and initiatives to help people experience greater physical, emotional, and mental well-being. One hundred percent of your contribution is tax deductible.