7GenCities: A new collaborative fostering transformative thinking and action for future cities, community building and Earth stewardship

Alef Trust is a global leader in transformative education and training in consciousness, transpersonal, and spiritual psychology.

Auburn Seminary equips leaders with the organizational skills and spiritual resilience required to create lasting, positive impact in local communities, on the national stage, and around the world. 

Awake in the Wild Experience is a mindfulness-in-nature art project that brings participants into intimate connection with the natural world through nature-inspired contemplations.

CARE for Teachers Project is a unique professional development program that helps teachers handle the stresses and rediscover the joys of teaching to help students thrive socially, emotionally, and academically.

Cattail Strategy advises kinship philanthropy toward systems that nurture life.

Center for Contemplative Mind in Society: transforms higher education by supporting and encouraging the use of contemplative/introspective practices and perspectives to create active learning and research environments that look deeply into experience and meaning for all in service of a more just and compassionate society.

Center for Transformational Practice is a meeting place and practice center for anyone wishing to advance sustainability through inner transformation. 

Center for Transformative Change is the first national center entirely dedicated to bridging the inner and outer lives of social change agents, activists and allies to support a more effective, more sustainable social justice movement.

Compassionate Schools Project is working to transform 50 schools involving 20,000 children by teaching elementary school students to cultivate focus, resilience, and wellbeing for academic performance, physical education, character development, and child health policies.

Conscious Food Systems Alliance, convened by UNDP, is a movement of food, agriculture, and consciousness practitioners united around a common goal: to support people from across food and agriculture systems to cultivate the inner capacities that activate systemic change and regeneration.

Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia is committed to advancing the study and application of human flourishing at all levels of education.

CTZNWELL is a political movement working towards a nation of wellbeing for all people using practice, community, and action to respond to issues with conscious and creative disruption for impact at a systemic and global level.

CuttingEdgeLaw provides resources on Integrative Law, an emerging movement crafting values-based, creative, sustainable, and holistic solutions that build and strengthen relationships within the law built on dignity. 

Dalai Lama Fellows Program of the Contemplative Sciences Center at UVA offers emerging social innovators a rigorous, interdisciplinary, and deeply contemplative program to reimagine leadership as involving self-awareness, personal sustainability, genuine compassion for others, and the capacity to skillfully navigate complex systems at multiple levels. 

EILEEN FISHER, INC. is the largest women’s fashion company to be certified a B Corporation and is passionate about business acting as a movement towards sustainability, human rights, and personal wellbeing. 

Empowerment Institute is a global consulting and training organization specializing in the practice of empowerment to achieve measurable and sustainable behavior change at the individual, organizational, and community level. 

Enneagram Prison Project is dedicated to the self-awareness education of the incarcerated and the reduction of recidivism rates, using the Enneagram combined with mindfulness meditation and sensate-awareness practices.

Fetzer Institute is working to help catalyze and support a broad-scale, spiritually grounded transformation from an ego-centered way of being grounded in separation and fear to an all-centered way of being grounded in oneness and love.

Garrison Institute convenes and supports those who are exploring the wisdom, values, and insight gained through contemplative practices to catalyze personal and social transformation. 

Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: is an arts/research collective that uses this website as a workspace for collaborations around different kinds of artistic, pedagogical, cartographic, and relational experiments that aim to identify and de-activate colonial habits of being, and to gesture towards the possibility of decolonial futures.

Good Work Institute develops business education programs that aim not just to bring more knowledge to the professional world, but more wisdom to honor ourselves, the natural world, and all the people in our communities. 

Healing Together is working to equip everyday leaders with skills in mental health and healing to build resilient communities and disrupt cycles of trauma and harm.

Hidden Leaf Foundation is working to expand inner awareness within social change organizations in order to advance a more just, ecologically healthy, and compassionate society. 

Holistic Life Foundation is committed to nurturing the wellness of children and adults in underserved communities by helping children develop their inner lives through yoga, mindfulness, and self-care.

Inner Development Goals (IDGs) involves an essential framework of 23 transformative skills and qualities of human growth and development across five dimensions for sustainable development.

Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change of the Presencing Institute at MIT: is a consciousness-based, action research approach to social transformation. This powerful academic journey presents leading voices in the field of systems thinking and systems change.

International Women’s Partnership for Peace and Justice leads workshops, retreats and training courses, which share in common the integration of feminism, social action, and spirituality for sustainability and transformation at the personal, community, and societal levels.

LIFE Camp is working to develop teens and adults into peer leaders, to avoid becoming perpetrators or victims of violence and to effectively implement positive change within their own communities. 

Mind & Life Institute is working to alleviate suffering and promote flourishing by integrating science with contemplative practice and wisdom traditions. The Mind and Life Contemplative Changemaking Grants Program supports the use of contemplative approaches by grassroots change-makers addressing urgent community needs.

Mindful Badge Initiative offers mindfulness-based resilience training to law enforcement officers to improve compassion, awareness, and performance to cultivate humanity, resiliency, and connection to community.

Mindfulness Initiative bridges contemplative practice and public policy, championing the inner dimension of social change.

Movement Strategy Center provides training in transformative movement building through sharpening shared purpose and vision, deepening relationships, and embodying the qualities needed for transformation. 

Omega Institute offers diverse and innovative educational experiences that inspire an integrated approach to personal and social change. 

Patagonia has a corporate mission to build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, and use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. 

Presencing Institute is a growing community creating awareness-based social technologies for change makers around the world.

Prison Mindfulness Institute provides prisoners, prison staff, and prison volunteers with the most effective, evidence-based tools for rehabilitation, self-transformation, and personal and professional development to transform individual lives as well as the corrections system as a whole. 

Reciprocity Foundation is a contemplative nonprofit organization working to help homeless, runaway, and foster care youth from all five boroughs of New York City to realize their full potential. 

Reverence Project is an initiative working to shift the social and philosophical construct of present world culture rooted in violence, shame, guilt, and fear into a more balanced world view rooted in reverence, forgiveness, compassion, and truth. 

Rockwood Leadership Institute offers nonprofit, philanthropic, and social change leaders from across the globe transformational leadership development trainings to change the way change is done and transform our world. 

Roots of Empathy is an evidence-based classroom program that has shown significant effect in reducing levels of aggression and bullying among school children while raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy. 

RSF Social Finance is a nonprofit financial services organization envisioning a world in which money contributes to an economy based on generosity and interconnectedness, and where money liberates human capacity for compassionate action. 

Social Health Concepts and Practice is an independent consulting organization that facilitates alternative ways to transform existing oppressive and hierarchical models of individual and community change.

Solvable guides the fields of education and finance towards regenerative futures. 

Spring Up is a multimedia activist collective creating a space for analyzing interpersonal and structural violence through storytelling and intentional myth making. It is building a community of practice embodying consent and liberation within our relationships, creative practices, and daily lives.

Synergos is a global nonprofit organization that brings people together to solve complex problems of poverty using a unique inner-driven approach called Bridging Leadership.

Thread engages underperforming high school students confronting significant barriers outside of the classroom by providing each one with a family of committed volunteers and increased access to community resources. 

Umurage is a Rwandan not-for-profit organization with a mission of empowering individuals, particularly grassroots-level women and young women, in self-discovery, personal growth, and positive action. The organization was founded to create a society where women and young women are empowered to be change agents for positive change in their communities. 

Wellbeing Project is a co-created global initiative, which is catalyzing a culture of inner well-being for all changemakers and believes that wellbeing inspires welldoing. 

Wolf Willow Institute is dedicated to cultivating the leadership capacities required to affect meaningful change in a complex world. They are a social enterprise emerging from the relational legacy of the Social Innovation Generation, a collaboration that sought to transform critical social and ecological challenges using a complexity lens. 

Zen Hospice Project is working to help change the experience of dying and caregiving by creating a space for living that offers the opportunity for individuals, their loved ones, and caregivers to find comfort, connection, and healing in this shared human experience.