Enlightened Entrepreneurship
Applying Buddhist Concepts to Build a Healing Platform
As cofounder of a technology platform that’s designed to help people heal, applying Buddhist concepts of bodhicitta, saddha, and dharma has been key to guiding our work – while inspiring peace and joy for the team. They’ve been incredibly valuable in my own healing journey, so I wanted to unpack these core insights and show how we’re using them to inform EvolveWell’s mission.
Bodhicitta for Motivation & Inspiration
The word itself translates to "the mind of awakening" and represents the compassionate desire to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. Recognizing this interconnectedness helps guide EvolveWell’s path of service.
We focus on evolving unhealthy, adaptive coping methods by imagining how doing so will help us better serve others on their path.
Every task – big or small – contributes to the well-being of our users and the broader community.
Here’s how we do it:
Compassionate Development: We design and develop with empathy, striving to understand the needs and struggles of our users, and creating solutions that truly serve through inquiry, testing and mindful revision.
Empathy-Driven Design: Our features and content acknowledge and address the real struggles of our users, providing them with tools to manage and overcome challenges.
Mindful Engagement: Regular breathwork and meditation sessions are offered to both the team and the platform’s users to offer spiritual and somatic support.
Saddha for Confidence & Curiosity
An expression of faith that transcends blind belief – we develop our purpose by testing and confirming theories through real-life experience, inquiry and practice.
Blind faith can lead us down paths that we might in hindsight regret. However, faith that comes from life experience and self awareness can be a very powerful tool for surrendering attachment to outcomes, and trusting the process.
Together we work to trust the path and the process, even when faced with challenges.
Here’s how we do it:
Trusting our vision: Maintaining faith in our mission and the positive impact we aim to create guides us through difficult times and setbacks. We also make a point to celebrate victories, big and small.
Continuous learning and testing: We embrace a mindset of curiosity and openness, regularly testing and refining our ideas and approaches to gain real-world feedback.
Team Bonding: We prioritize team activities that promote connection, such as retreats, mindfulness sessions, and time spent in nature to joyfully connect to our true selves.
Dharma for Understanding & Acceptance
Acceptance of reality as it is requires recognizing the nature of suffering and learning to navigate it skillfully. Recognizing the varied aspects of our human experience helps inspire the most compassionate solutions possible.
Resisting reality means fighting against life itself. By practicing radical acceptance of what is, we create a powerful, compassionate pause. In this moment, we gain the opportunity to choose a different path than we have in the past.
Understanding and integrating our own suffering allows us to be more empathetic and effective in serving others.
Here’s how we do it:
Skill Building: We continually develop our skills and knowledge to better understand and respond to the needs of our users and the challenges they face.
Acceptance and Adaptability: Cultivating acceptance of our current circumstances, including setbacks and failures, provides endless opportunities for growth and learning.
Supportive Community: Our compassionate community within our platform and on our team is designed to help create understanding and support.
By integrating the teachings of bodhicitta, saddha, and dharma into our work here at EvolveWell, we are creating a platform that not only addresses the practical needs of our users but also fosters a deeper sense of connection, compassion, and inner peace. Committing to these principles as we continue to develop and grow ensures our work is not just about technological advancement, but about making a meaningful, positive impact on the world.
Wanna come practice with me and the EvolveWell Team?
Join us the last Thursday each month for a live Coaching Jam, where I’ll be facilitating our signature heart-expanding breathwork and music session designed to ground and inspire you. It’s free to join. I hope to see you there.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
EvolveWell co-founder Alex King-Harris’ globally celebrated music projects and deep experience in wellness tech make him an integral part of EvolveWell’s mission. His platform YogiTunes helped level up the frequencies of healing spaces around the world – and his live sound healing, breathwork and music journeys provide a place for the EvolveWell community to go deeper.
