Mindful Meerkats

16/01/2016

We have started to write articles on Medium to increase our visibility. We hope you find it entertaining and insightful. :) Feel invited to critise or spread the word. Or both.

The core principle of Mindful Meerkats is to enable and inspire people to live a life of true fulfilment and happiness. …

30/11/2015

We deeply apologise for the long silence. We have been executing a first email pilot, also known as Minimal Valid Product or MVP, collecting insights into what elements of our envisioned product can work or not. It has been very interesting and we will publish the results soon enough.

On to something less technical and hopefully a little entertaining: Jonas participated in a PechaKucha event in his hometown, presenting the idea of Mindful Meerkats and the app that we are working on building. You can find his speech and slides on this link.
Feel free to criticise, only that makes us more capable of improving!

Stay marvelous.

10/07/2015

We are participating in MIT Climate Colab's "Shifting Attitudes & Behaviour"-Competition.

Our proposal made it through the first round of 72 participants and now 11 proposals are left to compete for the support and supporters. It would be great if you could give us some feedback and/or a vote, if you are interested in Behavioural Change as well. Feel free to give another team your vote, if you are more convinced by their proposals. It is the cause that counts.

Mindful Meerkats is a smart app that inspires /w gamification to take life and happiness in your own hands via conscious lifestyle adoption.. Enter one of 18 contests on what to do about climate change. Comment, collaborate, share, submit your ideas!

03/04/2015

For the celebration of Easter, we prepared a little poll to hunt for your opinions and answers. We are currently completing the conceptualisation of the Beta of our little game and it would be great to hear some of your thoughts. If you are part of our newsletter, you will get it via email as well, later today, but if you are unoccupied now, feel free to have a look :)

Dear friend, Thank you for taking part in our little survey about the attributes used in our game. Just to recall: in the game you are represented by a meerkat avatar (a so-called Meeka). As a Meeka you have a set of attributes that determine your performance. Together with your avatar you are invit…

25/02/2015

Yesterday we finished our first offline pilot with a school in Maastricht with valuable insight into gamification as a tool for Behavioral Change.

We have reached another milestone on our journey: Organising a food challenge for high school students as our first offline trial. More than 40 students (bet...

03/02/2015

Good. Again, .

Best selling author and behavioral economics professor Dan Ariely delves into the essence of human motivation. His clever yet brilliantly simple experiments ...

22/01/2015

Best of 10 in the Philips Innovation Award! Let us hope that we will survive the next two rounds of pitching. The big reward would empower our development efforts greatly... ;)

05/01/2015

Apparently we have to hurry up before "mindfulness" becomes equally empty and universal as "sustainability" :)

How a Buddhist concept moved into the mainstream.

28/12/2014

Let's tackle this together!

03/12/2014

24/11/2014

Of course we believe in your neutrality and mindful decisionmaking capacities, but we would also appreciate if we could convince you all of voting for us so that we can represent the Mindful Meerkat vision at TEDx Delft! Also, please spread the word! Anyone can vote!

Stem op jouw favoriete idee voor een duurzame toekomst! Voor het TEDxYouth@Delft event op 27 januari 2015 zijn we op zoek naar jonge mensen met innovatieve i...

11/11/2014

Surprise, surprise brought to you by Diana and Irene. Many thanks! A truly wonderful present!