Establishment of the World Meditation Day Committee
In 2024, the World Meditation Foundation proposed to the United Nations that 21 December be recognised as World Meditation Day. The UN formally endorsed the initiative, creating a new global consensus.
Following that milestone, the Foundation spent a year preparing for the launch of the Committee, which was formally announced in Zurich. The move marks a shift from international advocacy to coordinated global action.
The Committee consists of five sub-committees: the Expert Committee, the Scientific Research Committee, the Humanities, Arts and Ethics Committee, the Global Meditation Retreat Centres Alliance, and the World Meditation Foundation itself. Each of the five sub-committees is respectively tasked with setting standards, advancing scientific research, fostering cultural and ethical dialogue, promoting resource sharing and innovation, and ensuring resource support. Together, they aim to make meditation a central force in global action.
