The Human Potential Movement is embodied in the Guild's inclusion of everyone regardless of portfolio, and in its celebration of writing as the whetting stone upon which to sharpen the "wits and writs" for telling stories which reveal truths as well as mysteries and the unknown. This emphasis on writing and revelation is particularly relevant to memoir writing — the recollection of experiences unarticulated and in need of conscious connection to the warp and woof of the individual as a whole.

Wholeness combined with craft is as important to the Guild as is the writing process and creativity in general — and when these come together they produce, over time, an individual and a writer who is both centered, strong and open.

The New Age has contributed to IWWG's alternative expressions and to the pursuit of answers about matters that are as yet inexplicable. IWWG is open to all forms of faith and their explanations of our ultimate purpose here on earth vis-a-vis the meaning of life. While the Guild does not sponsor a dominant explanation, it does believe in strengthening the belief in inexplicables, in paradox, while holding faith in an ultimate order.

Being able to seek the whole and see its manifestations — leaving the final explanation up to both mystery and a belief in a sense of order whose mechanism we still don't understand — makes us perpetual seekers and tests our tolerance towards others and differing ideologies.

This attitude, never imposed but respectfully sensed, results in a deep feeling of respect and love for all that is around us — for our fellow humans, environment, the earth and the universe.