Working Groups
eamba gratefully acknowledges the work of the following Working Groups:
Exchange working group (active since March 2020)
Intention: offering a platform for associations / affiliates and their members in order to connect, to inspire through shared experience and to encourage continuous learning. Bi-weekly online meetings on structurally important issues especially if urgent.
More info on this webpage: eamba Exchange
Contact: Katharina Mullen.
To contribute, please contact the Exchange service team at exchange@eamba.net
MBP Task Force (active since 2019)
Contact Barbara Doeleman-Van Veldhoven.
To contribute, please contact the eamba Board at info@eamba.net
Communication Working Group (active since February 2022)
Intention: creating the various communications of eamba and ensuring a consistent flow of relevant information and resources, including creation and updating of:
- eamba website
- eamba update / newsletter.
- socials (LinkedIn, Instagram)
- eamba communication plan.
- support of local eamba associations’ communication strategy & activities
Contact: Katharina Mullen and Eugenio Correnti
We welcome colleagues to join the working group, especially if you have a professional background in communication.
Please contact info@eamba.net
Festival working group (active since 2019)
Intention: offering a practice-based (non-scientific) conference to support the mindfulness teachers’ community, organised since 2020 by the local association hosting the General Assembly in collaboration with the eamba Board.
To contribute, please contact the eamba Board at info@eamba.net
Retreat working group (active since 2019)
Intention: consistently offering a retreat during the first days of January to connect teachers of eamba members / affiliates in practice and offer opportunities for networking.
Contact: Camilla Sköld.
To contribute, please contact the eamba Board at info@eamba.net
Diversity working group (active since 2018)
Intention: discussing concrete steps regarding adaptation of MBP’s to adapt for a more diverse mindfulness landscape in Europe. Aiming for diversity in colour, gender, social/financial background, functional variability and age regarding Teachers as well as participants.
Contact: Camilla Sköld.
To contribute, please contact the eamba Board at info@eamba.net
Carefully Exploring AI & VR for MBP Teaching & Practice (active since April 2023)
This eamba Working Group explores how AI could benefit MBP Teaching and how it could enhance a steady mindfulness practice.
While looking for benefits this working groups is aware of dangers, and puts special attention to making the pitfalls of new technology known.
The objectives are
– to be informed – in line with reality happening in society – and proactive,
– to participate in conversations on regulation,
– to make mindfulness practices available to many, meaning people in European societies in all their diversity.
A.I. in this context stands for ‘Artificial Intelligence’. As working group we also allude to alternative meaning, namely of ‘Accountability & Integrity’ in A.I. application, and of being ‘All Inclusive’, regardless of background and identity.
We advocate human-enhanced A.I., e.g. designing AI systems with transparency, interpretability, and fairness in mind, so that the decisions made by machines are understandable and accountable to humans, and ensure that they are aligned with human values and objectives.
We warmly invite you, colleague mindfulness and compassion teacher, to join this exploration.
Contact: Katharina Müllen, Eugenio Correnti at info@eamba.net
Other intentions regarding working groups
Research:
Intention: sharing recent insights from scientific research to strengthen the evidence-base of MBP effects and offer MBP-teachers input for answering questions their (potential) participants have in mind.
To contribute, please contact the eamba Board at info@eamba.net
Finding Funds for European projects
If you have experience in writing proposals to respond to ‘EU Calls for Proposals’ or in obtaining funds from other sources, then please contact the eamba Board to get a working group started for increasing eamba’s possibilities to initiate and to finance special projects.
Contact: Katharina Müllen at info@eamba.net