Global Healing Response
Uniting hearts, intentions, and communities worldwide through collective healing since 2005.
What Is Global Healing Response?
Founded in 2005, the Global Healing Response brings people together in times of challenge, change, and uncertainty. Through intention, labyrinth practice, meditation, prayer, and reflection, participants around the world join in creating a field of compassion, resilience, and hope.
Uniting intention, science, and contemplative practice to strengthen individual and collective resilience.
Three ways to get involved
Wherever you are on your journey, there are many ways to participate in Global Healing Response.
🌎 Respond to Global Events
🌀 Practice Together
🤝 Build Community
Healing resources for disasters, conflict, and times of uncertainty.
Quarterly themes, labyrinth walks, and reflections to help us stay grounded.
Join the Labyrinth Activist Network, listen to Impact!, connect with others around the world.
Looking for our complete collection of Global Healing Response resources?
Explore more than 20 years of themes, global responses, and healing practices.
2026 Theme: Grounding
Grounding is remembering what holds us.
In a rapidly changing world, grounding invites us to reconnect with presence, stability, and the wisdom that resides within ourselves, our communities, and the Earth. Throughout 2026, Global Healing Response explores practices and perspectives that help us remain centered while responding to the challenges and opportunities of our time.
Resilience is the intentional capacity to stay grounded, endure, adapt, and grow amid personal and collective crises. How might we strengthen our capacity to stay resilient in these challenging times? Find the third quarter materials HERE..
Why Collective Healing Matters
The Science of Connection
Research in neuroscience, psychophysiology, and social science suggests that our nervous systems are deeply interconnected. Practices such as meditation, intentional reflection, labyrinth walking, prayer, and compassionate presence can reduce stress, increase emotional regulation, and strengthen resilience—not only within individuals, but within communities.
Global Healing Response invites people around the world to pause together in moments of uncertainty. While no single action changes the world overnight, thousands of small acts of intention, compassion, and connection create healthier families, stronger communities, and a more resilient world.
Healing begins within us, but it rarely ends there.
Meet Ellen
Ellen Bintz Vivoda founded Global Healing Response in 2005, creating a framework for collective healing through intention, labyrinth practice, prayer, meditation, and reflection. For more than twenty years, she has guided the evolution of this global initiative and its growing collection of resources and responses. Today, Ellen continues to invite people around the world to discover that we’re more powerful together.
Upcoming Events & Gatherings
More workshops, retreats, podcasts, and speaking engagements are added throughout the year.
🌿 Sacred Pathways
Deepening Church Community Through Labyrinths
September 14-17, 2026 • Unity Village, Missouri
Discover how labyrinths can deepen spiritual practice, strengthen community, and create sacred spaces of reflection and healing.
Join the Global Healing Response Community
Receive updates on current themes, healing resources, global responses, and opportunities to participate in collective healing practices with people around the world. Join a worldwide network of individuals and communities committed to healing, compassion, resilience, and positive transformation.