The Future of Mindfulness in Hamilton: A community-wide co-creation session

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Mindfulness Hamilton moved our programs on-line. As we recognize the challenges and opportunities of the present moment, Mindfulness Hamilton’s Core Committee thought this was a good time to reflect on the needs of the community we serve and start to source new ideas for how and who we might serve better.

Rather than a strategic planning process, we wish to engage our community in a bottom-up creative process to collectively explore opportunities in the current and future environments.

We are inviting all of our members, and everyone who has been a committee member or volunteer to participate in one or both of our co-creation sessions, along with anyone who has an interest in mindfulness education and support, including mindfulness teachers and facilitators.

These interactive planning and design sessions will give participants a bird’s eye view of how Mindfulness Hamilton has been serving the community, surface emerging needs and hopes from each participant about how we might go further, and co-create sketches of future possibilities for the organization.

Part 1: Sourcing New Ideas – Saturday Feb 26, 2022 10-12 AM via Zoom

• Surface emerging, unmet needs in our community and dream big about how we can meet those needs.

Part 2: Ideas into Action – Saturday Mar 26, 2022 10-12 AM via Zoom

• The best ideas from Part 1 will be shared and turned into concrete plans, experiments, and actions to bring them to life.

The sessions will be interesting and fun. A number of different mindfulness and creativity exercises including breakout sessions will help to unleash our collective creative juices. The process will generate ideas and insights that can help us plan the way forward for our organization.

Whether you are new to mindfulness or have a longstanding practice and/or promote or teach mindfulness, this will be a wonderful and unique opportunity to learn and interact with like minded people who share common goals..

Please consider joining us for one or both sessions. You do not need to attend the first session to attend the second one.

If you have questions, please contact us at mindfulnesshamilton@gmail.com

Facilitator: Sean Park, PhD

Sean is a teaching professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. Through his highly experiential way of teaching, he inspires business, engineering, and health science students to design and create new futures with empathy, creativity, insight, and foresight. His doctoral work in contemplative studies and arts education, training as a mindfulness educator, and adventures in global healing traditions lends a unique perspective to the history and future of mindfulness.