Engaged Community
“An engaged community leads and owns its own development. Communities can be geographic. They can be based on shared characteristics, such as age or gender, or shared interests. They can also be institutional.”
-Pact (Read more here)
what is engaged community?
To us, Engaged Community looks like listening to our fellow community members and coming together to co-create change in our own communities. It means empowering community members to create their own change in their community.
Engaging in community can take on many forms including:
volunteering
grassroots initiatives
community programs
monetary or item donations
activism/movements
social justice and policy
From the context of re-worlding, we have identified five themes here that we invite you to explore within your own community engagements. These themes are overlapping at the root of change, so when we re-world in one of these themes, we re-world in others.
community initiatives
We invite our meditation practitioners to participate in community through our own initiatives. We partner with local municipality “Adopt a Property” Programs. We adopted a trailhead in Sault Ste Marie and a beach in San Diego.
Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities:
More coming 2025! (Sault Ste Marie, San Diego)
Images from our Community Clean-Up in Sault Ste Marie on Oct 5th!
Youth Mindfulness session with Cub Scouts Canada on Nov 27th 2024, led by President of The Being Human Foundation and Certified 200hr Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Vanessa Ferlaino.
youth community programming
We offer Engaged Mindfulness programs to youth of all ages through community partners. We have run sessions with groups through Cub Scouts Canada and are piloting mindfulness integrations with another Canadian foundation that invite youth to get involved in nature through photography (we’ll share soon!).
Contact us below to bring Engaged Mindfulness to youth in your area!
community programming
We partner with community organizations to offer Engaged Mindfulness programming to women in crisis, displaced people, and returning citizens. Engaged Mindfulness supports healing, mental health interventions, and other professional-building programming.
our impact
200+ donated to charity, 1 community project funded, +120 cumulative volunteer hours
The Planet
Freedom To Be
Equal Opportunity
Indigenous Reconciliation
New Beginnings
be invited to connect with us
namaste@thebeinghumanfoundation.org
6111 S Gramercy Place Suite 4A
Los Angeles CA 90047
Sault Ste Marie, ON, Canada
We humbly acknowledge that we occupy land originally and still inhabited and cared for by the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash Peoples; and that we are also located on Robinson-Huron Treaty territory, the traditional lands of the Anishnaabeg, specifically Garden River First Nation and Batchewana First Nation, as well as the Métis People. We acknowledge, honour, and offer deep gratitude and reverence to the people, plant, animal, and land spirits who knew this land we call home long before us, and who will continue to long after. May we be further invited to extend our land acknowledgements into land engagements; may we find ways to support and restore these lands through responsible citizenship, partnership, and advocacy, including the support of landback motions.
