Learn More About Our New Projects
Launching Pilot Kindness Schools Worldwide
Current Project. "Mindfully Kind: A Pocket Kindness Guide for Care Providers"
IKR is proud to announce the pilot launch of our newest project: “Mindfully Kind: A Pocket Kindness Guide for Care Providers.” This project aims to support care providers in building a foundation of kindness, empathy, care, and compassion, enabling the community to grow into a Kindness Care Facility. As a result of using our Kindness Guide, healthcare facilities will become places where kindness is the visible and palpable cornerstone of the community. We foresee a culture where every person, regardless of position in a healthcare community, feels valued, cared for, and deeply connected to everyone else. These communities will serve as a healthcare model that prioritizes holistic well-being and celebrates every individual’s inherent dignity and worth. We created the Kindness Guide by leveraging the kindness hemes and skills as well as the reflection prompts from our internationally acclaimed PreK-12 curricula Connect with Kindness, reengineering them for care providers to use with patients, clients, coworkers, and families.
Kindness City-School: International Contest. Completed on January 15, 2024
Kindness City-School: International Contest provided a safe virtual space to present creative ideas, images, and thoughts of the school that was ‘magically’ transformed into a Kindness City! We are happy to announce that over 500 children and young adults from 19 countries worldwide participated in this contest. We’re overjoyed by the overwhelming response and can’t wait to showcase all the incredible entries on our project website. The diversity of ideas, images, and thoughts is a testament to the power of kindness and imagination.
Mission of the Kindness City-School project is to harness and celebrate the unique perspectives of how a school looks and feels when it is truly kind; all generated by children. Through these insights, the project seeks to cultivate a nurturing and inclusive educational environment where kindness becomes the cornerstone of all interpersonal interactions. By prioritizing the recognition and encouragement of continuous kind actions, the project aims to help establishing a unique culture within every school-participant that transcends traditional norms and fosters a sense of community, empathy, and understanding.
This initiative is dedicated to formulating an environment where students and school staff are embraced by kindness. It is also oriented towards supporting a steady flow of actions of kindness in their daily lives. Through consistent practice, along with direct instruction provided through implementation of Connect with Kindness: Child-Generated, Teacher-Friendly Supplementary Curricula Materials, the project endeavors to instill a resilient and “contagious” element within the overall school culture. This ‘contagious’ kindness is not confined to the school premises but extends its reach to students’ families and the broader community, contributing to the creation of a positive and harmonious society. The goal is to inspire a construct within schools that causes a ripple effect of kindness that transcends the confines of the school, creating a lasting impact on individuals and communities.
Check most interesting projects on the project website and its YouTube channel and celebrate diverse children’s representations of kindness schools from Brazil, Croatia, Ivory Coast, Lithuania, Moldova, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, United States, to name just a few.
Share your opinions on this project and suggest ideas for new ones. Contact us via this website.
