2020
Hennie Geldenhuys: Inner Healing for Outer Health: a course in integrated medicine (South Africa).
Tania Botoulas: “Mend” – Stitching lives together (South Africa). A support group for mothers of children with severe learning difficulties, with activity focus around learning the art of stitching and appliqué.
Owen Fender & Lila Moore: Sentient – A New Kinder Media (UK). A deep-dive into how creative and transpersonal events can be co-created online and offline, using new technologies to build deeper human connections.
Paula Staunton, Earth Moves: Transforming Land, Transforming People (UK). A transpersonal permaculture project, transforming land and people.
We are also excited to announce that we are co-creating a new mentorship programme for Integrative Practice Leaders. We are evolving and piloting this programme with two grant recipients, who are establishing Integrative Practice in their respective communities:
Victor Jivanescu: Learning through Integrative Practice (Romania). A 12-week programme, introducing to Integrative Practice to adults in a community in Romania.
Laura Harvey-Collins: Integrative Yoga Programme (UK). An online course for yoga practitioners, nurturing their wellbeing and integrative development through and beyond yoga practice.
2021
Tabitha Jayne (UK). Elf-Strength of the Earth: Developing an Earth Connected Facilitation Process. The project intends to create a multi-generational approach to Earth connected facilitation that can be used with short films or in other contexts, and invite coaches and facilitators who are our partners in this project to experience the process.
Sunita Pattani (UK). EFT in the Police Force: Addressing Ongoing-Trauma. This project aims to devise and test an Ongoing-Trauma EFT Protocol, since ongoing trauma and resulting PTSD experienced by the officers seems to require a different approach than the standard EFT protocol. Experienced EFT practitioners will work with frontline police officers to develop and deliver this new protocol.
Martha Sneyd (UK). Wild Refuge: Exploring Connection to Self, Others and the Transpersonal with Residents of Chy Rehab. The project hopes to create a bridge between clinical interventions and immersive transpersonal programs held in nature. This taps into the larger vision of Wild Refuge which is to integrate spiritually nourishing, holistic approaches with psychologically informed and trauma sensitive ways of working.
Lorraine Clewer (Mexico): Yoga Therapy for Labour Rights Activists: Self-care and collective-wellbeing for effective, sustainable and transformative social justice movement building. The project will share individualised and group-oriented Yoga therapy tools with women’s workers’ rights activists along Mexico’s border with the United States. It will then monitor and evaluate the impact of yoga therapy on how the women build their movement for improved labour rights in the factories where they work.
Ayesha Iftikhar (Pakistan). Journey to the Self: Taking Care of the Care-takers. Based on transpersonal and integrative principles, this programme will develop and use process-oriented group work and expressive arts to support therapists and educators who have been affected by the pandemic.
Adi Vickers: Integrative Practice for the Heart-Centred Teacher (Ireland/ Italy). The project will develop a teacher-centric rather than learner (student)- centric programme. The objective is not to train teachers in pedagogy or curriculum, but to honour the Selfhood of the person behind the role of ‘teacher’ and enhance their well-being through engaging with whole person integrative practices.