Supported by this Open Space Authority grant, the Green Foothills’ Healing in Nature series offers meditative, healing experiences to public groups in protected parks and open spaces within the Santa Clara Valley. The program includes special outings for people with limited mobility and disabilities, families with children, and people who prefer Spanish interpretation. Special emphasis is placed on building an ethnically diverse community of docents with cultural mindfulness training and expertise. 

Along with providing these community outings, the grant-funded project involves recruiting and managing a team of volunteer docents, partnering with two local healers to design the outings, and developing cultural mindfulness training curriculum to share with the public and partners.