Resources

Our materials

• “Reconvening the Mindful Researchers” – poster presented at ESRI 2023
• “Mindful Researchers: transforming academia from within by co-creating a supportive community” – poster presented at ESRI 2021

Recommended (re)sources

A selection of literature, media, practices, tools, and initiatives related to our work – participatory processes, community building, scientific collaboration, contemplative practice, embodiment & enaction, open / contemplative science & research, scholarship, and more:

Literature and media

Handbooks, playbooks, manuals

• Open Scientist Handbook
• The Turing Way
• Fieldbook for Mindfulness Innovators

Preprints, journals, magazines

• MindRxiv
• Journal of Contemplative Studies
• Unpsychology

Publications

Academic culture / Shared values in scholarship:

• Beyond kindness: a proposal for the flourishing of science and scientists alike (Schumann F, Smolka M, Dienes Z, Lübbert A, Lukas W, Rees MG, Fucci E, van Vugt M). Royal Society Open Science 10(11):230728 (2023).
• What are harmful systems in scholarship? (Lancaster A, Mietchen D, Taylor G, Virapongse A). Medium article (2021).
• Our shared values as scholars (Lancaster A, Mietchen D, Taylor G, Virapongse A). Medium article (2022).
• Making change happen (Lancaster A, Mietchen D, Taylor G, Virapongse A). Medium article (2022).

Open Innovation in Science:

• The Open Innovation in Science research field: a collaborative conceptualisation approach (Beck S et al.). Industry and Innovation (2020).
• Experimenting with Open Innovation in Science (OIS) practices: A novel approach to co-developing research proposals (Beck, S. et al.). CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation 5(2), 28–49 (2021).

Podcasts

• Mind & Life Podcast
• Mind & Life Europe Podcast (coming soon!)
• Contemplative Science Podcast

Practices and tools

Contemplative practices

• Contemplative Life
• Tree of Contemplative Practices by CMind

Facilitation and co-creation

• Art of Hosting
• Liberating Structures
• Process Facilitation and Co-Design toolkits

Participatory decision-making

• Systemic Konsensing
• Sociocracy
• VREDE – A Visual Tool for Responsible Decisions
  • Facilitation guide – English version
  • Facilitation guide – German version

Organisation and leadership

• Source Principles
• Servant Leadership

Dialogue and storytelling

• Ways of Council
• We Are Open Circle
• Bohm Dialogue

Embodiment & enaction

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Community platforms & tools

• Hylo
• Discourse
• Open Science Community Starter Kit

Initiatives and organisations

Contemplative research

• Mind & Life Europe (MLE)
• Mind & Life Institute
• International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR)
• Center for Contemplative Research (CCR)

Contemplative Pedagogy / Contemplative Education

• Community of Contemplative Education (CCE)
• Contemplative Pedagogy Network
• Contemplative Higher Education Alliance for Research, Teaching & Service (C-HEARTS)
• Achtsame Hochschulen
• Netzwerk Achtsamkeit in der Bildung

Independent research

• Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE)
  • On Science & Academia – discussion forum
• Ronin Institute

Academic culture change

• Humane Metrics Initiative (HuMetricsHSS)
• Humane Humanities
• Reimagine Science

Open research / science / innovation

• Open Innovation in Science (OIS)
• Center for Open Science (COS)
• Incentivizing Collaborative and Open Research (ICOR)
• International Network of Open Science & Scholarship Communities (INOSC)
• R.I.O.T. Science Club UK
• R.I.O.T. Science Club NL
• UNESCO Open Science

Other

• Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (CMind)
• The Mindfulness Initiative
• Inner Development Goals
• Prosocial World
• ServiceSpace
• Greaterthan
• Life Itself
• Plum Village
• Upaya Zen Center
• Monastic Academy / MAPLE

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