Restoring the human-land connection mutually benefits ecosystems and human communities. Our project will build on our established community land stewardship programs and initial programming with the local Indigenous community. Healing Landscapes centers local Indigenous youth in culturally specific frameworks. Goals: (1) Pilot programming that engages youth in transformative experiences that integrate healing mindfulness practices and …
ABOUT-IT: Accelerating Buffalo’s Opportunity to Upsurge Transformation – from the Inside ouT Embodiology is a contemplative mind-body practice that optimizes individual human performance and well-being while integrating community flourishing through breath, rhythm, and movement. In Fall 2022, Dr. S. Ama Wray, creator of the award-winning Embodiology®, began the first phase of About-It, a wellness arts …
This project emerged from the Mind and Life 2018 PEACE grant to Professor Levit-Binnun, where the MtC mindfulness-informed conflict transformation program was tested in the context of discussions on controversial issues in schools. Nufoth Al Qalawi, who joined the research project as a Palestinian pedagogy expert and facilitator, will now bring this contemplative approach to …
Former female and male prisoners will receive mental health strategies and tools that can complement the rehabilitation, reintegration, and resettlement services received by the institution. Meditation asks us to pause, and in that pause, we get to make different choices. We want to assist these women and men in seeking to make choices that are …
In a time of climate crisis, climate action education for young students (aged 8+) is crucial to cultivate environmental stewardship and agency. However, this process can in itself induce climate anxiety leaving students feeling helpless and resigned to a bleak future. At RKF, we want to address this through climate action workshops designed to introduce …
This project seeks to implement Mindfulness Trainings based on the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Protocol (MBSR) consisting of 8-week courses, with weekly sessions of 2 hours each session and an informative/taster session with a duration of 60 minutes prior to the beginning of the course (total amount of hours: 17 hours). The target population of …
Mindfulness Practices for Indigenous Youth serves Indigenous students grades 6–12 living in McKinley County New Mexico. These young people are participants in Project Venture, an evidence-based, culturally responsive positive youth development program tailored to Indigenous youth. The project aims to co-create culturally responsive mindfulness practices, with the input of an advisory committee of Indigenous elders. …
This project seeks to facilitate Forest Therapy sessions for socioeconomically vulnerable cancer patients from public hospitals in three cities in Chile. These walks will be implemented as a wellness tool from an integrative approach, addressing the physical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual needs of people with cancer. In addition, through this contemplative practice, it is hoped …
Several schools from marginalized communities around La Paz have reached out to Fundación Astra to request intervention to prevent an increased tendency to suicidal behaviors. This proposed project, a series of art workshops using creative expression, with the goal to promote mental and emotional well-being, will address some of the endemic risk factors leading to …
Dzaleka refugee camp, in Malawi, was designed for 10,000 people, but hosts over 60,000 refugees. Communities are torn by ethnic and religious conflicts. Children carry intergenerational traumas which impede their future. Traditional support is of great relief, but labor-intensive and expensive, reducing its availability. Yoga is a cost-efficient and sustainable practice for improving mental health, …
