OMBUDS OFFICE

ISKCON Resolve ombuds are fully confidential. Outside of the rare occurance of imminent risk of serious harm to self or others, they will keep all communications with you confidential. Their service provides you with the opportunity to talk to a skilled listener about your concern or problem. You may not want others to know about your situation, or you may fear the consequences of speaking up against someone, or you may just need some information about ISKCON and how it runs, and you don’t know where else to turn for an answer.

As trained Ombuds, we will listen to you, and discuss options on how you may wish to address the situation. Often, just having someone listen to you carefully provides you with relief. We are happy to serve you in that way.

The Ombuds Office follows the International Ombudsman Associations Standards of Practice and are thus an independent, neutral, confidential and informal resource (https://www.ombudsassociation.org/standards-of-practice-code-of-ethics). Our ombuds are volunteers who are not in ISKCON’s formal line of authority. They do not accept formal complaints or notice for ISKCON. If you wish to make a record, or put ISKCON “on notice”, that is, to make ISKCON formally aware of a particular problem, we can provide information on how to do so.