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Jeans Journey
A ten-minute guided meditation that starts in the body and ends in the world: after settling into the breath, attention moves to the felt contact between skin and clothing — scratchy, smooth, stiff, soft — and from there to imagining every person involved in making those clothes, through the whole production chain from cotton field onward. Consumption made literally tangible.
- Imagining garment workers' lives can tip into guilt; debrief toward connection and choice, not shame (the toolkit's own pedagogy)
Practical
- Time
- 10 min + 10 landing
- Group
- 1–40 · individual, small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online, self-guided
- Materials
- Bell, clock, undisturbed space; full read-aloud script in the toolkit (p. 26)
- Mechanisms
- somatic-awareness, perspective-taking, systems-sensing
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- achtsamkeit-und-konsum.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Toolkit_…
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
BiNKA project (TU Berlin & Leuphana; Fritzsche, Fischer, Böhme, Grossman) — Consumption-specific mindfulness training (BiNKA research project)
In this directory via Education for Sustainable Consumption through Mindfulness (Active Methodology Toolkit 9)
The directory's first primary-mapped tool for Conscious Use of Resources (A3) — and a model example of the skill's inner side: awareness of consumption arrived at through the senses, not the spreadsheet.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25