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We are building a unique community.
Movements, by their very nature, are the result of community-building and community-based action. The mindfulness community, as a whole, spans a variety of disciplines and sectors and embraces multiple wisdom traditions. Our work is inherently interconnected. We want to see the embodiment of awareness-based values and capacities alive in our systems and society. We want to see more compassion, justice, inclusivity, and wellbeing in our everyday. The Mindfulness Alliance supports this values-based revolution by uniting practitioners across disciplines and sectors, amplifying our capacity to foster positive social change.
The desire to foster individual and collective wellbeing unites us around a central goal, idea, or project. It is the connective thread that weaves throughout our work.
Community-based Transformation Hubs
The Mindfulness Alliance envisions the creation of powerful social impact networks across disciplines and sectors, to foster collective wellbeing. The following models were designed to support building community-based transformation hubs within and across sectors. These models illustrate how contemplative community building initiatives can be united across regions and statewide to form powerful mindfulness alliances. We believe that each hub can create the energy and potential to leverage whole systems in service to awareness-based social change. Each serves as an important micro-movement within the interconnected web of macro-movement change. Every connection is needed.
A. Within One Sector, Within One Region
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B. Across Sectors, Within One Region
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C. Within One Sector, Across One State (NY State Example)
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D. Across Sectors, Across One State
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Our Transformation Hubs
The Mindfulness Alliance began its journey in the Western New York higher education sector by bringing academic practitioners together across the disciplines in one institution, and later expanding across multiple institutions (Model A above). The palpable need for support, connection, and community within the broader mindfulness community inspired us to lead the future in contemplative community-building in other sectors. The intentional co-creation of community and togetherness within sectors has fostered our capacity to collaborate across sectors in an organized way (Model B above).
Take action knowing that every connective step is important. Grow the movement in WNY!
Join one of our regional transformation hubs, or start a community-building initiative in your sector!
Join one of our regional transformation hubs, or start a community-building initiative in your sector!
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Where is your community?
Ignite the future & grow the movement in your region! The Mindfulness Alliance fosters the building of awareness-based collaborative ecosystems for social change in every region. Through new forms of collaborative structures we can grow a culture of wellbeing that fosters more healthy, equitable, resilient communities. We have developed a method for co-creating this future!
Are you interested in facilitating contemplative community-building in your region?
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