Resources

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

Publications

• MindRxiv
• Journal of Contemplative Studies

Shared values in scholarship:

• 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).
• Preprint: Beyond kindness: a proposal for the flourishing of science and scientists (Flourishing Science Think Tank). Submitted (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
• Contemplative Science Podcast

Practices and processes

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

Organisation and leadership

• Source Principles
• Servant Leadership

Dialogue and storytelling

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

Embodiment & enaction

• …

Initiatives and organisations

Contemplative research

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

Independent research

• Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE)
• 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)

Other

• Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (CMind)
• The Mindfulness Initiative
• Prosocial World
• Life Itself
• Monastic Academy / MAPLE
• Upaya Zen Center

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