Kenyan women, with their vibrant salon culture, visit these havens of grooming and beauty at least once a month, often spending over 6 hours in a single session. These extended visits become spaces for confiding in fellow women and hairdressers, sharing life’s joys and burdens. Unfortunately, while these conversations reveal the prevalence of mental health …
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Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT)
This project will support Joyce in her role as the HaRT program lead for the “Sharing HaRT in New Expanses”(SHINE) initiative in Uganda. SHINE is a randomized controlled trial of the ‘Move with HaRT’ program to evaluate program impact on mental health and overall wellbeing for women andgirls who have experienced human trafficking. It is …
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Freedom is being Present
The project “Freedom is being Present” is proposed to serve a community of Structurally Excluded women in Malaba, Eastern Uganda – border of Uganda and Kenya. ArtVism has a regional art studio in this place and from our experience working here, the structurally excluded women we serve will benefit from having space to reflect on …
Healing Landscapes: Restoring the Human Land Reciprocal Relationship
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 …
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A B O U T – I T: Accelerating Buffalo’s Opportunity to Upsurge Transformation-from the Inside OuT
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 …
Mind the Conflict in Hura’s Bedouin Community
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 …
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Meditation as a Path to Peaceful Living
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 …
Conscious Climate Action through Contemplative Gardening
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 …
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Mindfulness Trainings for Mothers and Teachers of Escuela Don Luis Braille in Asunción, Paraguay
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
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. …
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