The MindBody Trust New Zealand was established in early 2004 to:

a) facilitate the inaugural “Exploring the MindBody Conference”.

b) support the further development of MindBody approaches to healthcare in New Zealand.

The word MindBody stems from the concept that mental, physical, spiritual, family, societal, and cultural dimensions play important roles in the maintenance of wellness and in the emergence of illness and disease.

 
The Purposes of ‘The MindBody Trust New Zealand’ are:

a) To establish and provide an active network consisting of health practitioners, academics, and other appropriate citizens who have a significant contribution to make to the MindBody approach.

b) To promote awareness in the general public of the MindBody aspects of wellness, health, illness and disease. To promote in New Zealand a general societal impetus for better care for the public and to establish MindBody approaches as an important and necessary component in working with people in a healing capacity.

c) To encourage competence amongst the Practitioners by providing education and training in requisite MindBody skills.

d) To establish and provide a vehicle and venue for New Zealand Practitioners to present their MindBody approaches to colleagues. To encourage the exchange of and seeding of new ideas, thus creating a supportive environment as Practitioners extend their vision.

e) The Trust will embody several values important to the multidimensional nature of the MindBody concept:

i) The Trust and its activities will usually be interdisciplinary, though may have more restricted disciplinary activities from time to time as needed.

ii) The Trust will encourage love and tolerance, openness to difference, intellectual rigor, freedom to discuss debate and critique, and emphasise exploration and discovery.

iii) The fundamental focus will generally be in the framework of illness, disease, wellness and healthcare.

The current Trustees are Dr Renske van den Brink, Dr Robin Kelly, Dr Richard Fox, Josie Goulding, Dr Alan Broom, and Dr Brian Broom.