What is One Kind Mind?

One Kind Mind is a free video chat and group message app but its more than that, it is a global action platform! 

We believe that taking action in life both for our personal well-being and the well being of others is core to what it is to be human. 

Healthy mind, healthy spirit and and healthy place to party. Yes we said it, party! Celebrate! Dance! Laugh! Love! This is the great joy, and planet, that we all share in common. Our reason for kindness!

But life isn't easy. The obstacles of life can run our spirits ragged. COVID19, climate, in-equality, war, poverty, addiction, hunger... In a world of increasing closeness, we have an imperative urgency to take care of our planet and ourselves. 

One Kind Mind is focused on solutions to the worlds biggest issues; mental health, spiritual health, peace and sustainability.

But its also a place to celebrate. Celebrate the beauty in all of this! Our kindness in common is a place for everyone! 

Let's face it, technology is beautiful but it can be pretty weird. Its focused on the wrong things and is too addictive with little return.  We need a social media solution that improves: 
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• Mental health
• Spiritual connection 
• Environmental sanity

Who is One Kind Mind for?

You, me, everyone! 6 out of 7 people on the planet are pretty spiritually inclined. Mindfulness and meditation have found their way from the jungles of Burma and Asia to almost every corner of the planet.

And, in an age of so much challenge and inequality, but connection, the world is standing up for social action like never before. We are many and we are strong but we could all use a platform with our best interests in mind. One Kind Mind stands in solidarity with all well intended movements of the planet! Black lives matter! Climate matters! OKM isn't an answer but it is a platform for us figure out our direction as a global human community! 

​This tool is meant to be useful in some way, for everyone. It is meant to bring us together rather than divide us. 

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Why One Kind Mind? Why Now?

Well the main thing is that the app is ready to launch! Yew! And its amazing! We couldn't be more happy with the work of our developers at Hyperlink Infosystems! A deep thanks on their clarity and patience with the vision. 

And wow, the world has the flu again, and its a doozy! Well even more than a flu, its Covid19! Mother's earth has had enough and we have shut down, turned in, quarantined the planet.  The process has exposed so many cracks in the system of the planet and the people are fed up. We are filling the street of every major city on the planet, where possible and against the strong hand of our institutions, to say "no, this is too much! The injustices and inequalities perpetuated by our elected institutions must stop!" 

Racial inequality, gender inequality and just generally systemic inequality is not who we believe ourselves to be but the divisions are glaring at this point. This issue and realty is perhaps one of our largest obstacles in the fight against climate change. 

But there is hope. OKM is for connecting us around the common good we all know Mother Earth needs and it's ready just in time it.

Sometimes Mother Earth and our home, has a mind of its own or as my uncle Alan says, "nothing happen till its right time man!". We were worried there for a second!

The One Kind Mind Lens

So much of our media, rather than liberate us from our failings, has dug us deeper. We sensationalize and fixate on fear and scarcity. We consume endless fixes to the manufactured demands we so carelessly share. And, we wonder how we have ended up this way.

​With our climate pressure and the slew of other connected global challenges, now is not the time to wallow in our predicament. It is the time to be what makes us human.

To be adaptable, resilient and brave!

OKM is a lens to focus on solutions rather than obstacles. To accelerate the sharing of solutions across all platforms, in all corners of the planet, as fast as we can!

The clock of our collective dilemmas tics and we are in the mind that 'we can do this'! That we are One! That we are Kind!

​In an age where digital connection is becoming so prevalent and ubiquitous, it is easy to ironically feel dis-connected from each other and from our source. Source is different for every one of course.

​For some it is God or mother earth or simply the ability to be in the moment and for some, those things are not different. OKM feels that more than ever we all need a way to get grounded, get high (spiritually) and get it done! 

We all breathe, we all feel and its time to reconnect! ​

Where is One Kind Mind located? 

One Kind Mind is Canadian based but we are everywhere! 

​The app will be internationally available on the Apple and Google Play stores this summer, 2020, and we hope it can find its way into the hearts and minds of everyone on the planet. 

We believe in a both the dream and the plan.  We believe in the human spirit to overcome. 

This app is a gift to the world. OKM is us

What can you do with the app?

Voice, video, broadcast, groups messages and nested forums to discuss local and global issues; a place to explore other like minded people and projects.

OKM is a robust platform for personal and collective development and with your help we plan to refine it further. 

The platform can be used as a private or collective meditation/prayer tool. Say a prayer and have a meditation for something or someone important too you alone or with 10, 10 000 or maybe a billion people. It only takes a moment to connect our hearts and minds when we have the technology in our hands.

Feeling inspired … connected? Take action, share petitions, spread the word, fill action roles and collect donations for the cause --- all under one house! 

This resource is meant to celebrate our differences while connecting us with what drives and inspires our being! 
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How did okm come to be?

In 2012, my friend Kelsey Bjur and myself began talking about war, peace, collective consciousness, environment, love, technology, music, well, just about everything.

​The more we read and discussed the more we became inspired by all the amazing information we had access to. 

Inspired by all the people and organizations we could see taking action around the planet!

So many people were trying to create some good in their own way but as our relationship to the earth attested, something was disconnected! 

The technology in our hands, that could and should serve to connect us, was doing more harm than good. The nature of social media was accelerating our addictions rather than healing them. 

Perhaps despite our great intentions, we, the caring, the loving, the kind, were divided and thus conquered. Perhaps despite our growing technological connection the planet was lacking a platform with a strategy to connect --- to connect us with what inspires and ignites insight--- to orchestrate our light. 
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It was clear that un-provoked, the people of the planet want nothing more than harmony, happiness and peace but also that there was/is a double edge sword at play.

​Social technologies and applications are rarely with a focus beyond the bottom line and are wielded by corporations who’s mandates are generally not concerned with global unity, peace or happiness. 

So we created One Kind Mind 

This was the pattern we could see at the time and this is solution we began to work on:

"One Kind Mind: a free social-messaging application with a focus on global unity.  A resource that celebrates our differences while connecting us with what drives and impassions our being! Inspiring us to take action around what we have in common... the kindness in all of us!"­­­
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Since we drew up our first prototype and website at the end of 2012, we have been through some ups and downs to get it off the ground. A start up story and a half! Well maybe not an Air B & B story but a pre-wild one and we are just getting started! 

It has been hard to see at moments but every ‘fail’ has been an opportunity to push forward and grow. ​​

NOw? 

Well, now you know.  The app is the map and there is more to come! Be sure to sign up and to tell a few friends who would also love OKM!

Jesse Hodsman

When we come together powerful things can happen

Jesse is the Co-founder and director of the ONE KIND MIND project.

"I believe in the human spirit to overcome and that we are one. Creating a beautiful future is within our grasp! Let's do it!"