We value love, growth, imperfection, equity, and imagination.
Photo taken by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez
Our mission is to teach and spread compassion through art and mindfulness.
We use art and mindfulness to boost mental health and push for systemic change by:
Building cultures of belonging
Growing skills in mindfulness
Sharing the therapeutic benefits of creativity and making
Connecting through real human stories
Envisioning a future built on compassion
Photo taken by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez
The Need
Individually and collectively, our mental health is suffering.
Mental health support is critical and a multi-pronged approach is necessary to provide pathways for intervention, as well as prevent suffering.
Increasing access to counseling, medical treatment, support groups, peer support, and raising education and awareness are all ways we can promote mental health. But we also need to challenge the systemic inequities that got us here. People are in pain because division, isolation, and hopelessness are rampant, coded into us at younger and younger ages. We don’t have to become desensitized to violence, hate, and climate catastrophe, but we DO have to practice being uncomfortable in community and turning towards each other, and love, together.
Teaching compassion is both responsive and preventative because it reminds us of our common humanity and our shared future.
Take a deep breath with us as we work to address these challenges:
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Loneliness is on the rise, with a 2020 study showing that three out of five Americans are lonely. Read more.
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A Gallup poll from 2022 found that 44% of K-12 educators feel burned out “very often” or “always” and 35% of university workers feel this way, too, “making educators among the most burned groups in the US workforce.” Read more.
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1 in 5 adult Montanans have been told by a health professional that they have a depressive disorder and 41% of Montana high school students have reported symptoms of depression - this is the highest rate ever documented. Read more.