About us

The Mindful Word is a collective of individuals committed to creating a culture of engaged living. The practice of mindfulness is the starting point for this cultural transition. Rather than exploring mindfulness in isolation, The Mindful Word aims to further integrate mindfulness in everyday life by exploring other aspects of engaged living such as the slow movement, permaculture and contemplative arts for the mindfulness characteristics they share.

The ever-changing nature of the world provides an opportunity for even the most negative seeds of war, injustice and environmental destruction to be transformed. However, our highly polarized society often does not allow for the open, compassionate dialogue necessary to transform these seeds. Rather than speaking out against others, The Mindful Word strives to speak out against injustice in an open, inclusive way.

We can choose to water positive seeds or be unaware and get overgrown by negative weeds. The Mindful Word is committed to being a forum to discuss those choices. As an exchange of ideas and a network of engaged citizens, The Mindful Word presents a community connection and acts as a foundation for the collective’s engaged spirituality action campaigns.

You’re invited to contribute your creativity to the magazine, get involved by volunteering, and taking action on engaged-spirituality initiatives (contact us for more info).

Launched in 2007 as both a short-run print magazine and website, The Mindful Word transitioned to a digital magazine and has since gone fully digital, publishing articles daily (the original print and quarterly digital magazine editions can be found here).

In 2019 The Mindful Word starting translating the site into eight other languages. You can read more about our translation project and the volunteers behind it here.

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Contributors

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Kiva BotteroErica RobertsJane Olivier
Max ReifForrest RiversMike Larcombe
Jim FarwellMia BarnesCindy McMann
Aneta BaranekGeorge PayneJennifer M. Holmes
Angelica PajkovicLeanne HoffmanJohn Grey
Finn JanningPamela GerberJack Surguy
Jerry KvasnickaCatherine LopesOrsolya Hernold
Robert KopeckyKathy RobertsLaura Constantinescu
Melissa VendittiWanda MonagueGabriella Lancia
Megan PhilippNiyati ShahAlana Fiander
Michael MyersCatina NobleRachel Walls
Dr. Cary RasofKyla GiffinPieter Van Cauwenbergh
Angie SalisburySiobhan SearleKate Harveston
Mike Kim VeteranOlivia Balanga-SantosMolly Murphy
Stan LipkinAngela WardAnjali
April Von BraunRebecca SheaMel Bender
Shelli PruettEmily L Quint FreemanJennifer Holmes
Tyla MillerBob KelsoeChristie Leigh Babirad
Philip MannHemal NaikJi Strangeway
Daphne JonesKunal MehraWendy Reichental
Chandni SinghRebecca BlumeVera Chiu
Marcel DufondDiana RaabLucas Coia
Wendy GillissenCorinne Isaacs-FrontieroMatthew Jacobs
Olivia Hajioff Lisa BrandtMelissa Simic
Samia Mehbub