06/01/2021
MoM (Mindfulness on Mothers) is an idea emanated in the mind of Sindhu when she gave an awareness class to the mothers of special needs children on 2017 July19 . When this idea shared with Anju ,she suggested the application of MoM with pregnant ladies. This spark came to light when Sindhu shares it with Mr. Manoj Kumar ,the then President of Kozhikode Block Panchayat. He was then inspired with the Ardram project,a project of Kerala Govt set to accomplish the UN SDG. Sindhu incorporated MoM into the project MANASA, tailored by Kozhikode Block Panchayat to achieve aims under Ardram project.
In the same year two groups of mothers of special needs children were constituted in Olavanna and Kadalundy Panchayat, the two panchayats which comes under direct control of Kozhikode Block Panchayat. And then commenced the journey of MoM.
With the blessings of their teacher,Dr. Krishnan Sivasubramoney Associate Professor of Psychiatry Medical College Tvm, Sindhu and Anju introduced the concepts of Mindfulness to the group with 8weeks MLM (Mindful Life Management) programme which ended on March 2018 with a retreat.
The training program began with pre assessment and terminated with post assessment. The results got were astounding and motivated Sindhu and Anju to embark a new journey for improving quality life of mothers.
On 2018 sindhu got invitation to join in supervision team of MBCT held in Singapore where she got a chance to handover the documents of MoM with the assistance of Ms. Ee Ling,her MBCT teacher, to Mr. Mark Williams,one of the developer of MBCT, which was the first community intervention of Mindfulness in India.
Sindhu presented a paper based on the results of MoM in the Annual Semi Conference on Brain and Mindfulness held at Trivandrum on January 2020,where their findings got appreciated.
Motivated with the appreciation, they formulated a structure of MoM P (Mindfulness on Mothers Pregnant women) which was planned to implement as another community intervention. At the same time with the delighted results of MoM, Mr. Manoj Kumar, president of Kozhikode Block Panchayat, invited Sindhu to implement MoM to single mothers. With great confidence she met the group. Both Sindhu and Anju made a rough planning. Unfortunately the ex*****on of both plans got interrupted due to the unexpected pandemic covid crisis.
Later in the pandemic time of 2020, Sindhu was fortunate to meet Ms. Sharon, Director of OMC (Oxford Mindfulness Centre) in zoom platform where she manifested the findings of their research .
And their journey with MoM continues....