Bringing, sharing and creating joy to and among both the culture of New Orleans and the culture of the Aveyron region of southern France serves as CCNOSF’s guiding light. We regard joy as a medicine, and as a tool for connecting peoples across geographic and/or cultural divides. 

We recognize that Western rationale and technologies are not the only valid ones, and therefore seek to support and facilitate the exchange of wisdom from all spiritual and cultural practices between community members of New Orleans and the Aveyron region of France, both for the sake of community building and in determining the shape and form of CCNOSF’s programs.

Because New Orleans is a place currently facing annual threats of environmental and man-made disasters of catastrophic scale, CCNOSF is committed to seeking cross-cultural knowledge and methodologies for renewable environmental practices. We aim to serve as a host for the exchange and collaboration on the growth and spread of such sustainable environmental practices, and to embed such practices into our organizational operations.

CCNOSF is committed to creating an environment, both in its physical center and within its programmatic practice, where all creeds, ethnicities, and orientations are welcome and actively engaged.

CCNOSF engages itself to be a good citizen of both New Orleans, Louisiana (USA) and Aveyron Region (France) by respecting both locations’ laws and cultures through the practice of the four values outlined above.