Please join the Catalyst Initiative of the Minneapolis Foundation, Here Global Relief and Marnita’s Table on Thursday, April 19^th, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. for a breakfast and dialogue to launch an exciting new neuroscience-based mobile app designed to help you connect with the present and practice meditation throughout the day.

We hope you will be with us as we introduce the beta testing phase of HERE, an application designed for iPhone and iPad that assists in quickly attaining high states of meditation through simple gamification to quell trauma, stress, anxiety, panic and more. For those who struggle to remain present and sit still in quietude, HERE seamlessly and actively integrates several methods of meditation: staring, breathing, and swiping. Meditations accompanied by some movement or designated activity can lift us more promptly to the capability of our high brain, endowing us with enhanced capacity to problem solve and smooth our course. Join us at LaunchHERE to learn more!

Please let us know if you plan to be with us by sending an RSVP via e-mail to elexis@marnitastable.org.

What to Expect:

Expect to be enlivened, engaged and to expand your understanding of healing practices in support of wellness and resilience. Together we will capitalize on existing energy, make new connections and build momentum as we share an abundant cross-cultural and intergenerational feast.

If you are receiving this invitation you have been identified as someone who will add and receive extraordinary value through your participation. We are seeking a vibrant cross-cultural mix of participants. We highly encourage you to reach out to someone across race, class, culture or age and invite them to join you!

Our Intentional Social Interaction is an inclusive forum to exchange ideas and build relationships across age, ethnicity and other means of self-identity in order to catalyze positive action toward building community resilience and centering the voices of the amazing youth in our community.

A complete feast is served with abundance to allay any dietary concern from vegan to carnivore in the Marnita’s Table model (www.marnitastable.org). You are our guest and there is no charge to participate. Please dress comfortably.

We look forward to welcoming you! If you have any questions, you may call the Marnita’s Table team at 612.928.7744.

Interested in HERE already? Sign up or learn more at the link below! http://hereglobalrelief.us15.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=02bdde0f42c10799a9d07972d&id=da891ab27e Note: Sign-up is at the bottom of the full website.

Check out the website HEREGLOBALRELIEF.ORG to understand more as well.

More about HERE, from the app’s creators:

We are HERE because trauma is universal. Some form of mental, emotional, and physical anguish or stress touches everyone. This trauma inevitably hijacks our high functioning brain, enabling that primitive part of our brain to take command as we defensively respond with the urge to Flee, Fight or Freeze. For our survival, we are wired to connect. When we descend into difficult internal, mental or emotional states, we might discharge these feelings to those around us, or even isolate ourselves. When we meditate, whether passively or actively, we may find our serenity, our composure. It is HERE we employ our High brain to heal ourselves, as well as spread our newfound composure to brighten our world!

Meditation rewires destructive brain patterns and helps reduce trauma cycles. Just a few minutes of meditation a day can be markedly beneficial to your overall outlook and secured wellness.

Users include: first responders, staff, and afflicted in hospitals, schools, refugees, shelters, in- and outpatient treatment centers, children, parents, family members, partners together, the compromised and the very healthy. (5 years and up) Those who want to learn to meditate and those who meditate through life.