To explore and prove the intersection between mindfulness, individual change and storytelling.
Inner work is usually treated as private and stories are usually treated as entertainment. We treat them as one instrument: the story is how the inner work reaches a person who would never attend a workshop.
To apply mindfulness beyond the individual, to the transformation of the collective
Personal peace is a beginning, not a destination. The question we hold is what happens when a whole community, workplace or nation cultivates awareness together and how to build the structures that make that possible.
To decolonise the mind and return to our original nature: African culture, thought and practice
We must rework our own path. In places that will mean adaptation; in places it will mean starting over, and we must be willing to start over. We can admire technology-led advancement and learn from everyone but we develop at our own pace, according to our own needs, out of our own knowledge.
To name and address the identity crisis at the root of the psychological conflict
Drawing on mindfulness practice for the tools and on Jung's cultural complex theory for the diagnosis, we work at the point where poverty, socio-economic constraint, religion and inherited inequality meet inside a single mind because that is where behaviour is actually decided.
To meet societal breakdown as a gateway rather than an ending
To build the methods, tools and spaces that let a people move through collapse and arrive somewhere new, rather than merely surviving it.