Global Grassroots equips emerging women leaders, including war widows, subsistence farmers, survivors of violence, and high-achieving female students from disadvantaged circumstances with the personal tools and professional resources to turn their ideas into reality. Through our Academy for Conscious Change, these powerful change agents launch sustainable social impact ventures in their own communities. Each women-led venture is designed to be mindful, innovative, sustainable, and impactful at the systemic and root levels of a social issue. Upon completion, they bring clean water, health education, gender equity training, and other holistic solutions to thousands of people each year. As their partners and champions, we celebrate their leadership. 

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 Conscious Social Change

Conscious Social Change is a methodology that uses inner work and mindfulness as a design tool for solving systemic social issues. Global Grassroots’ unique social venture incubator incorporated the Conscious Social Change methodology, blending mind-body trauma healing, inner work, mindfulness-based leadership training, and hands-on, social venture development for women committed to creating positive social change in their communities. Through our Academy for Conscious Change, we have witnessed first hand the power of this process. Participants report finding a deeper sense of purpose, patience, and empowerment as they exercise their rights, freedoms, and newly-mastered skills as conscious change leaders.

The need for more conscious approaches to social change efforts is increasingly acknowledged among change leaders worldwide. Initiatives such as the UNDPs Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA), the Wellbeing Project, and the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) are just a few examples. We are honored and inspired to have been a part of these efforts and hope to have contributed to the growing understanding of how inner work can positively impact our collective capacity to create healthy, equitable, just, and sustainable communities.

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