The Being & Transforming Think Tank

The Being and Transforming Think Tank is a joint initiative from The Wellbeing Project and Georgetown University. The Think Tank develops and mainstreams transformative new ideas for social change based on exploring the relationship between inner and outer work. It develops evidence-based research and new approaches to understanding and addressing intergenerational trauma and ecological belonging through a global, multidisciplinary, cross-sector, and participative approach. Diving into these subjects, it intentionally brings together perspectives from actors worldwide and continuously engages with The Wellbeing Project's global community in a fundamentally participative way.

The Think Tank’s work on intergenerational trauma has been undertaken by: 

• A Research and Design Team which leads the development and production of the research and framework. The Research and Design Team is composed of a team from the Red House at Georgetown University, an incubator for innovation, as well as two neuroscience and political science experts from Connecticut College and the University of New Mexico. 

• A Panel of 13 interdisciplinary academic and practitioner experts who help guide the research; 

• Fourteen Associate Voices from various academic and changemaking backgrounds, have produced papers on the impact of intergenerational trauma in their respective areas of work and study; and 

• Members of The Wellbeing Project's global community. Over three years, the Think Tank has engaged with this network in a fundamentally participative way to co-create its research through dialogue and collaboration.