GLOBAL ONE MEDITATION PROGRAM

Meditation in a holistic response mission

• Meditation and Peace Coherence Programs since 2014

• Mindfulness and Transcendental Meditation (TM) combined have trained over 1,500 adults and children in Kibera, Kenya.

• As individuals change, members of the community are also affected biopsychosocialspiritually.

• TM meditation in particular is well suited for this environment and the ease of learning the method.

• TM is also widely studied and supported as a PTSD intervention altering nervous system adaptation, leaving a complete phenomenology of peace as brain waves, attention, blood pressure and increasing consciousness is affected across groups of practitioners at the Global One Kibera Schools.

The Global One TM program is made possible through the generosity:

• Partners for World Peace, Jim Schaefer, PhD

• David Lynch Foundation

• Africa PTSD Relief Now

Global One Foundation School system Transcendental Meditation (TM) instruction is led by:

• Solomon Mwangi (East Africa TM Director)

• Patrick Kinuthia

• Innocent Maina

rationale

• Post-traumatic-Stress Disorder and Traumatic stress has been estimated to be at 27-35% in Kibera.

• Election violence, the threat of rape, the continual psychological distress as secondary effects of poverty are common.

• TM Meditation is the only meditation form studied as an intervention for PTSD showing non-symptomatic states/remission within 30 days of twice daily 20 min practice sessions in Africa

• 30% reduction of PTSD symptoms has been shown within just 10 days.

  • Please see Significant Reductions in Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Congolese Refugees Within 10 days of Transcendental Meditation Practice, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 27, 2014, pp. 112-115.

• TM meditation practice specifically has been associated with higher scores on moral development assessments; improved prosocial attitudes and compassion; increased creativity, positive self-identity, motivation, academic performance and learning, attention regulation, memory, improved stress reduction, cardiovascular health, immune system, pain management, and more (Learn more here).

• Especially important in Kibera is the fact in the last 40 years ‘fifty-three research projects’ world over demonstrate effect on the surrounding populations in reduced war deaths, reduced terrorism, reduced crime rates, less emergency calls, less suicides and accidents even less alcohol consumption. 

global one foundation’s Meditation Research

• This is the first Controlled Study of mindfulness mediation in an world slum. 

• Click here for the Mindfulness Meditation Study Summary, 2014-2015.