Help us Build Knowledge for a more Mindful World!

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Vision: A MOOC for everyone.

In the spirit of the Mindfulness community, we wish to continue to offer this course for free to all who might benefit from it, with a nominal fee for a formal certificate for students seeking a qualification.

Goals: Helping you take the next step in Mindfulness.

We hope to develop an open-source, free e-book to enrich the learning experience, and we seek to support the various projects that participants create in the honours stream. We would also like to offer extra material to support your experiential practice, addressing questions you might have about your experiences and learning.

Research: Building Knowledge for a more Mindful World.

The data from this course will help support primary research in this very important and timely field, leading to publications and interventions into the scholarly and societal debates in this area. You can help us reach all of these goals by donating to this project.

Ethos: Compassion and Education.

Although Mindfulness is not necessarily a Buddhist technology, this fundraising endeavour is envisioned in the spirit of the Buddhist tradition of dana, or giving, which is closely linked with the personal quality of caga, or generosity. The idea is that true teaching is priceless and thus should be offered freely; learners or patrons might then seek to acknowledge the personal value of the teachings (for them) through donation. Hence, we ask only that you give in accordance with your heart.

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Thank you! 28-06-2024 | 08:53 Dear donors, In September 2016 the Massive Open Online Course De-Mystifying Mindfulness by Prof. dr. Chris Goto-Jones went live on Coursera, and in 2021 on FutureLearn as well. Over 180.000 learners joined the community. In the spirit of the Mindfulness community, and the Buddhist concept of dana, or giving, which is closely related to the personal quality of caga, or generosity, we created a crowdfunding campaign to support all the goals of the course, including maintaining it for free. Nearly 700 learners of both Coursera and FutureLearn donated over the last 8 years. Thanks to your generosity we have accomplished quite a few things, which includes Yearly maintenance including to the introductory module that helps learners learn An ebook written by Prof. dr. Chris Goto-Jones which will become available open access Attention to some of the projects that were created in the Honours Track A new module on Mindfulness, Trauma and Social Justice in 2021 A new module on Mindfulness, Nature and Land in 2021 We want to thank all donors for making this possible over the years. As we now go into a new phase, keeping the course alive but at a lower activity level, this crowdfunding campaign will be closed per 1st of July 2024. With gratitude, The Mindfulness team