Holiday Greetings from Katie and Gay
Holiday greetings from us and the Hendricks Institute and Foundation for Conscious living! Appreciation gives us a powerful way to make a transition into the new year and to create rich connections with friends and communities. We want to share our wonderful appreciation resources with you, which you can find here. We also want to let you know what the Foundation has been up to this year, with appreciation to donors.
To support the ongoing work of the Foundation, please click here or on the button below to make a one time or ongoing donation.
People have been able to:
- Conduct research that makes the world more harmonious and creatively stimulating.
- Create movies, eCourses and other media projects that make positive contributions.
- Make conscious curriculum materials to help teachers and students create conscious K-12 classrooms.
- Receive scholarships for study in numerous subjects, including environmental issues, specific therapeutic and transformational techniques.

Here are a few of the specific projects generated this year:
- Our no-cost Love in Action and Big Leap Bridge Classes.
- Coaching training scholarships for young adults, European communities we are expanding into, and coaching students expanding the reach of our work
- A grant to develop and expand a genius assessment developed from The Big Leap content.
- A grant to integrate AI with our content to connect with wider audiences
- A grant to support “Getting Creative,” an exciting new performance art that integrates play, live coaching, props of all kinds, and deeper connection, by Jennifer Blaine
- Holiday community support for families
- Weekly Ecstatic Dance event in Ojai, CA, that people are deeply appreciating—here are some testimonials from participants:
- Books supporting “power with” rather than “power over” and the research supporting the power of our work conducted by Dr. Julie Colwell and her students.
- Funding for a documentary, Courage to Thrive, intergenerational Trauma and Healing amongst the Native American cultures, created by Dr. Kamin Samuel and
- Investing in our first local (Ojai) publishing company, Rise Books
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