About Us

The Institute Of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Community Group in Bellingham, Washington has been active for the past 20 plus years. The foundation of this community group has always been in alignment with the purpose, vision and mission of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which is to explore consciousness for a world awakening through frontier science, personal inquiry and learning communities.

The Bellingham IONS Community Group is one of over 260 IONS community groups worldwide. 

Our vision states:
"We are a network of caring individuals from the larger Whatcom County community who support and inspire one another in our personal and collective search for and development of transformative values, deeper heart connection and conscious co-creation."

Our mission is to create a wisdom learning community within the larger global community, to find common ground while celebrating our diverse ideas and belief systems, to partner with other social change organizations and to serve as a center for life-enhancing resources.

BIONS is a loosely organized group with a Steering Committee who share the tasks of upholding our vision, purpose and mission. We invite and encourage the public to attend our monthly events which are held from 7 PM to 9 PM once a month at various venues.

For the past few years we have focused on developing a wisdom community amongst our members. Our programs have reflected this focus by providing opportunities for deeper dialogue around important social and spiritual issues and deeper heart connection. A sub-committee of our community group dedicated their time over a two year period to the development of a community building process called the Open Question Approach (OQA) that is now being actively used in the larger Bellingham community and other areas around the world. Now in keeping with the shifting emphasis of IONS International, we are exploring and developing a commitment to spiritual activism. We are choosing presenters who represent Spiritual Activism in our community. We also explore on an ongoing basis new healing modalities.

One of our goals has been to reach out into the larger community, to partner with other like-minded organizations, to share ideas and to explore the possibility of developing mutual programs and projects. As an example of this, BIONS partnered with Woodside Church, the local Association for Global New Thought (AGNT) affiliate, to create a program that allowed for a mutual sharing of ideas, dreams and goals in small circles of dialogue using the OQA. We received enthusiastic response to this endeavor from all those who participated.

We use an email list to notify our members of upcoming events including our regular monthly meetings - bellinghamions@yahoogroups.com.

Our parent organization is the Institute Of Noetic Sciences. Please visit www.noetic.org.



Noetic Sciences Map showing the range of topics covered in BIONS events