Emerging Researcher Fellowship Program & Summer Research Conference
Objectives
A multidisciplinary initiative to advance, strengthen, and scale the field of subtle energy and biofield healing research by supporting rigorous research and fostering a community of emerging and established researchers
Hypotheses
- Successful precedents in field-building exist in the form of the Mind-Life Institute, which helped inaugurate the mainstreaming of mindfulness through its diaspora of sponsored researchers
- The first generation of prominent researchers in subtle energy by and large have not left apprentices to carry forward valuable know-how and learnings
- There are an increasing number of PhDs with an interest in pursuing research and even a career in such frontier sciences, yet an insufficient support network to foster them
- Financial sponsorship, mentorship, and a multidisciplinary community of young scholars and seasoned researchers are most urgently needed to foster the next wave of frontier science researchers
Participants
- Mentors
- Early Career PhDs
- Practitioners
Outcomes
- Fellowship Program supports a yearly cohort of early career investigators conducting high quality examinations of subtle energy and/or biofield science therapies and practices
- Summer Research Conference to engage and enable emerging thought leaders that are active in these growing fields of research in new research collaborations