Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees (MBTR-R) is a mindfulness- and compassion-based intervention that is trauma-sensitive and socio-culturally adapted for diverse forcibly displaced people. Supported by randomized-clinical trial evidence, the intervention model is designed to empower and enable forcibly displaced people to experience moments of refuge and safety in their own minds and bodies in the short-term, and thereby facilitate the process of recovery and healing post-displacement to unfold in the long-term.
Moments of Refuge is a global initiative to use mindfulness- and compassion-based training to empower forcibly displaced people to begin to heal and recover, prevent intimate partner- and gender-based- violence, buffer inter-generational transmission of trauma and stress among children, and re-build community capital and resilience post-displacement.
Our mission is to help refugees heal, one moment at a time.
Our mission is driven by 3 guiding principles: I. Mental health and the right to recovery following forced displacement is a basic human right that we must guarantee. II. Mental health is inextricably linked to social justice, equality and mobility. III. It is our ethical obligation to act and resist injustice with compassionate action grounded in the strongest science and evidence available to us.
