Recently awarded grants

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

A B O U T  – I T: Accelerating Buffalo’s Opportunity to Upsurge Transformation-from the Inside OuT

S. Ama Wray

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Conscious Climate Action through Contemplative Gardening

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Contemplative Art Therapy for Children and Adolescents Coping with Self-Harm

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Embracing the Heart: Yoga for Mental Health and Community Building in Dzaleka Children and Youth Refugees

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Forest Therapy for People with Cancer in Three Public Hospitals in Chile

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Freedom Inside: Contemplative Practice for Women in Prison

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Healing Landscapes: Restoring the Human Land Reciprocal Relationship

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Intimate Landscapes

Alejandra Grisales

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Meditation as a Path to Peaceful Living

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Mind the Conflict in Hura’s Bedouin Community

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Mindfulness Practices for Indigenous Youth

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Mindfulness Trainings for Mothers and Teachers of Escuela Don Luis Braille in Asunción, Paraguay

José Godoy

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

The Black Child Flourishing Project

Demond Hill Jr.

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

United with Uvalde

Aproteem Choudhury

PEACE Grant: Samuel B. Hanser Visionary Grant

Recovering the relational roots of compassion training: Supporting sustainable and inclusive care

Paul Condon

PEACE Grant

Testing an interpersonal model of mindfulness: A randomized controlled study

Bassam Khoury, Soham Rej

PEACE Grant

Nurturing compassionate responding towards oneself and others through the caregiver-child relationship: A response to the youth mental health crisis

Ryan Herringa, Christine Lathren

PEACE Grant

A compassionate decision-making model to increase compassionate behavior

James Kirby

PEACE Grant

Exploring the use of contemplative practices in social justice student-leadership development at a Historically Black University

Bernard Richardson

PEACE Grant

Developing the Objective Awareness and Mindfulness Measure for Teachers: A novel measure of teachers’ subjective experience, objectively coded using a machine learning approach

Almut Zieher, Kylie Anglin

Varela Grant

The impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on spinal cord activity in chronic pain: A pilot crossover study

Anne Baker

Varela Grant

Exploring experiences and features of mindfulness and contemplative practices for autistic adults

Kelly Birtwell

Varela Grant

Cultivating early adults’ flourishing with mindfulness training & technology-assisted skill transfer: A pilot comparative effectiveness trial

Marisa DeCollibus

Varela Grant

Reexamining mechanisms of mind-wandering in mindfulness-based interventions

Joseph Diehl

Varela Grant

Teacher equanimity for improving behavior management

Tara Hofkens

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-based interventions targeting first-generation college student retention in rural environments

Natalie Lecy, Adam Hanley

Varela Grant

Remote mindfulness training for health following early life adversity

Emily Lindsay

Varela Grant

Can applying the science of habit formation to contemplative practice improve outcomes? A randomized controlled trial of a self-touch micropractice for building self-compassion habits

Eli Susman

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-based practices for healing intergenerational trauma among Vietnamese Americans

My Ngoc To

Varela Grant

Investigating the practices, benefits and neural correlates of Tibetan Dream Yoga

Gabriela Torres Platas

Think Tanks

Contemplative Environmental Mentoring Communities

Paul Wapner, Julie Tato, Matias Franchini, Matthew Hoffmann, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue

Topics: Education | Environment | Stress & Resilience

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Embodying DEI: Trauma-informed and Mindfulness-based Approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education

Anita Chari, Michelle Chatman, Jennifer Cannon, Monika Son, Angelica Singh

Topics: Education | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

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Community Suicide Prevention Project for Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Romuald Adili Amani, Patricia Luck, Michael Krasner, Papy Lukeka, Marlin Bisimwa

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

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Resistance through Resilience: A Compassionate Approach to Interrupting Privilege

Megan Kennedy, Ralina Joseph, Jas Moultrie, Bonnie Duran, LaNesha DeBardelaben

Topics: Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change

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Master Plants and Mindful Medicine: Towards Reciprocation and Recontextualization of Indigenous Practices and Western Psychedelic Research

Yuria Celidwen, Dacher Keltner, Juan Nelson Rojas, Yuniur Vazquez Rosalio, Nicole Redvers

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Self & Other | Social Change

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Contemplative Practices for Well-being of Low-income Children and Teachers in India

Nirmal Govindaraju, Ananya Tiwari, Jyothi Ravichandran, Prachi Khandeparkar, Sai Sudha Ramakrishnan

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Stress & Resilience