PASSION: love for green mindfulness
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
Project "Mindfulness for the Planet" is a youth exchange activity, which took place in Floda, Sweden in June 2022. We carried out the project ‘Mindfulness for the Planet’ because we believe that mindfulness has health benefits and moreover that mindfulness is inspiring more eco-friendly habits and attitudes. The connection between mindfulness, nature and pro-environmental behaviour is confirmed also by several studies e.g. the study ‘Nature Enhanced Meditation: Effects on Mindfulness, Connectedness to Nature, and Pro-Environmental Behaviour’, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0013916520952452, published in the journal Environment and Behaviour. This study found that mindfulness exercises lead to increased feelings of connectedness with nature and pro-environmental behaviour. And the reasons are following: mindfulness strengthens attention and awareness, which may lead people to notice nature, the environment, and/or information about climate change; mindfulness may also lead people to be more purposeful in their behaviours which in many cases being environmentally-friendly requires engaging in behaviours that require more effort.
Moreover, we believe that mindfulness leads to developing attitudes of kindness, compassion, and gratitude. And we, our partners and especially young people who were involved in the process of preparing this project, wanted to experience and offer the power of developing new attitudes in fun community surroundings.
Project Partners:
Positive YOUth, Sweden
Youth Council Next Generation, North Macedonia
ADEL, Slovakia
BACKLASH, Spain
Istanbul Social Running Group, Turkey
Youth Workers Alliance, Serbia
Booklet: https://bit.ly/3m5BBwE
Read more: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2021-1-SE02-KA152-YOU-000007073
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
Project "Mindfulness for the Planet" is a youth exchange activity, which took place in Floda, Sweden in June 2022. We carried out the project ‘Mindfulness for the Planet’ because we believe that mindfulness has health benefits and moreover that mindfulness is inspiring more eco-friendly habits and attitudes. The connection between mindfulness, nature and pro-environmental behaviour is confirmed also by several studies e.g. the study ‘Nature Enhanced Meditation: Effects on Mindfulness, Connectedness to Nature, and Pro-Environmental Behaviour’, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0013916520952452, published in the journal Environment and Behaviour. This study found that mindfulness exercises lead to increased feelings of connectedness with nature and pro-environmental behaviour. And the reasons are following: mindfulness strengthens attention and awareness, which may lead people to notice nature, the environment, and/or information about climate change; mindfulness may also lead people to be more purposeful in their behaviours which in many cases being environmentally-friendly requires engaging in behaviours that require more effort.
Moreover, we believe that mindfulness leads to developing attitudes of kindness, compassion, and gratitude. And we, our partners and especially young people who were involved in the process of preparing this project, wanted to experience and offer the power of developing new attitudes in fun community surroundings.
Project Partners:
Positive YOUth, Sweden
Youth Council Next Generation, North Macedonia
ADEL, Slovakia
BACKLASH, Spain
Istanbul Social Running Group, Turkey
Youth Workers Alliance, Serbia
Booklet: https://bit.ly/3m5BBwE
Read more: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2021-1-SE02-KA152-YOU-000007073
