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Want to have deeper conversations and build stronger connections with your community? Join a growing movement of people exploring mindfulness and connection through shared meals. The Mindful Meals campaign, powered by OpenSeat, provides a simple framework for hosting gatherings encouraging open conversation and support.

Want to have deeper conversations and build stronger connections with your community? Join a growing movement of people exploring mindfulness and connection through shared meals. The Mindful Meals campaign, powered by OpenSeat, provides a simple framework for hosting gatherings encouraging open conversation and support. The conversational focus is intended not to be on the “Why?” of a problem, ...

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  • Complete a 30 Day Challenge
  • Report the impact of your project
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@openseatlife dinner was such a good time last night! Good food, good people, and incredible conversations! So excited to attend more of these!

OpenSeat Mindful Meals
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How to start a project on ChangeX

  • 1

    Create your project page

    Click the green start button to register and set up your project page. It’s quick, free and easy.

  • 2

    Complete a 30 Day Challenge

    Complete simple steps in 30 days to start your project and access funding.

  • 3

    Activate your project

    Follow the 5 Step Guide and your action plan to bring the project to life.

  • 4

    Share impact

    Share an impact summary to access the remaining funding and continue your project.

Great for

  • Anyone interested in mindfulness and community
  • Mental health activists
  • Counsellors, social workers, psychologists, religious leaders
  • People with a desire to see others mentally whole and healthy
Funding Available
$500 per new project

As part of

Not in United States?
Change your region

To access funding

  • Complete a 30 Day Challenge
  • Report the impact of your project
Start a OpenSea...
$500 per new project
Start project

78 OpenSeat Mindful Meals projects have already been started

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Members

Carmen Laffont Fabián Díaz Bianca Cressy Callum Oberholzer Michael James

OpenSeat Mindful Meals project essentials

5 Step Guide

  • Complete the 30 Day Challenge on ChangeX
  • Register and create your Mindful Meal on the OpenSeat platform
  • Share the Meal Invite via OpenSeat and Manage Guest RSVPs
  • Prepare Food, Venue and Conversation
  • Host a Mindful Meal!

Time

Suggested: This is a once-off time commitment to plan and host a meal. With a team, this would involve a planning session about venue and food logistics, as well as a structure for the conversational focus of the meal. Beyond this, time would be required to prepare the venue and food and host the meal.

Resources

More information on how to get started and any resources shared by the OpenSeat Mindful Meals

78 OpenSeat Mindful Meals projects have already been started

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Meet the Social Innovator

Everyone from families, friends, presidents, workers, Jesus and celebrities have used meals as a symbolic act of relationship building, even cross-cultural exchange — a way to bring together diverse groups of people in a harmonious environment. Sharing a meal together offers the opportunity for deep conversation, a thousand and one laughs, easy as well as awkward interactions — experiences that create lasting memories.

Callum Oberholzer

78 OpenSeat Mindful Meals projects have already been started

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Members

Carmen Laffont Fabián Díaz Bianca Cressy Callum Oberholzer Michael James

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Why a 30 day challenge?

    The 30 Day Challenge was developed by our Team based on our experience working with communities. We’ve learned that the first weeks are critical to build momentum and get off to a good start with any community project. Teams who complete these steps within the first month are much more likely to successfully complete their project!

    The Challenge is a series of simple steps that each applicant has to complete to get their project off the ground and unlock funding, if there is funding currently available for that idea in your region. Steps include watching a video and/or reading content, having a call with a ChangeX team member, forming a team so that you have support, having your first team meeting, sharing a team photo, and sharing a project action plan.

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    By empowering local changemakers with proven ideas from social innovators and accessible funding from our partners, we aim to build healthier, more inclusive and sustainable communities. Our work is aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and together with our partners, we aim to impact 1 billion people globally by 2030.

    • Communities: Get the funding, resources and support you need to start impactful projects in your community.
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