To engage with the community and foster a greater understanding of mindfulness, we often host and/or partner with individuals and organizations to develop unique opportunities for people to learn about and experience the practices of mindfulness.
Below are a few examples of past projects. If you, or an organization you represent, would like to partner on a project, please reach out to us via our contact page.
The Art of Mindfulness
In 2020, Mindfulness in the Heartland’s founder, Amy Zoe Schonhoff, partnered with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Smartify to produce The Art of Mindfulness, a guided audio tour that invites participants to engage with visual works from the Museum’s permanent collection while being more fully “in the wake” of their moment-to-moment experience. The 30-minute audio tour explores ten works from the Museum’s permanent collection and can be enjoyed on-site in the galleries or in the privacy of one’s home.
Truth Lines
In the summer of 2020, Mindfulness in the Heartland’s founder, Amy Zoe Schonhoff, was invited by artist Jill Downen to contribute to a project called Speak Truth. Participants in the project were asked to record themselves speaking a personal truth. The sound waves from the recordings were then translated into works on paper called “truth lines”. The project currently includes the “truth lines” of over 40 individuals, from nine different countries and speaking in eight different languages.
Walking Meditations at
the Walking Wall
Over the course of 2019, Mindfulness in the Heartland collaborated with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to offer five community walking meditation practices in conjunction with artist Andy Goldsworthy’s installation of Walking Wall. The half-hour community practices coincided with successive “movements” of the wall as it made its way across the Museum’s campus over the course of nine months.
Family Mandala Project
In May of 2018, Mindfulness in the Heartland partnered with social practice artist, Tiffane Friesen, to offer families a chance to engage in a mandala-making practice. Families explored sensory-based mindfulness practices while gathering natural items from the environment that were then used to construct a group mandala.