The Tiny Blue Dot Foundation strives to help people understand that they live in their own unique Perception Box whose walls can be expanded to minimize suffering, increase acceptance of self and others, and view trauma and other challenges as opportunities for growth. Our mission is to develop Perception Box modification techniques that are safe, effective, reliable, measurable, widely accessible, and easy to use.
Perception Box is a groundbreaking framework developed by Elizabeth R. Koch that describes how a person's perception is structured by various factors such as beliefs, biases, and narratives.
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How do young people perceive their inner and outer worlds, and how can we help them feel stronger, clearer, and more connected? That is the focus of Tiny Blue Dot Foundation’s latest round of research funding: $9 million awarded to 11 new projects exploring the frontiers of adolescent mental health, consciousness, and perception.
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It's an exciting time at the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation as we announce our third round of funding! Over the past three years, we've been dedicated to supporting groundbreaking neuroscientific research focused on The Science of Perception Box™, our way of describing the unique lens through which each of us experiences the world. Our goal is to help expand the walls of that Perception Box to reduce suffering, foster acceptance, and turn challenges into opportunities for growth.
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In What We See When We Read, the novelist and designer Peter Mendelsund reveals a remarkable fact about his own mind.
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Helicopter parenting undermines children's sense of agency and resilience, contributing to rising anxiety levels, while daily independence-building experiences can powerfully shift their perception of themselves and the world. Independence-Focused Therapy (IFT) offers a scalable, strengths-based solution, showing promising results in reducing anxiety in children, and this project will support a rigorous randomized controlled trial to further validate its effectiveness.
CATCH-IT is an evidence-based intervention designed to prevent depression by helping teens build resilience and develop healthy coping skills.This study aims to test the benefits of delivering CATCH-IT within schools, using a community-based approach to support at-risk students by expanding mental health literacy and emotional support across entire classrooms.
This project aims to characterize ways for individuals to learn how to use their dreaming experiences to expand their perceptual horizons in the waking state.
Researchers are developing a new therapy for PTSD using anesthesia to induce a specific type of dream that has the potential to help people recover from trauma and improve mental well-being.
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Tiny Blue Dot Foundation (TBD) seeks to fund rigorous, empirical, statistically valid, and sound research that allows children, teenagers, and adults to understand that the reality they experience is a construct of their mind, and amenable to change. That is, they can learn to expand their Perception Box to reduce the anxieties that come with living in the modern world, minimize strife and to be more mindful and compassionate with others and themselves.
