Ciara Josephine has been running guided meditation classes for over seven years. Ciara has held meditation classes and workshops for youth communities, corporates, adults and children. She most recently carried out three seven-week meditation programs for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. She is a qualified Transform Your Life Teacher which focuses on personal development using guided visualisation and meditation. Ciara had her own wellbeing center on Anglesea Street, Cork 2011/12, from where she held guided meditation classes and workshops. Ciara recently graduated from Ignite UCC, where she spent twelve months developing her EdTech product in a high-intensity, University led, incubation center. AnimaVenture is an immersive story game application that invites the reader to become a co-author through embarking on meditative journeys through nature. The story game comes with an educational solution teaching skills in creativity, innovation, and wellbeing motivating young people to ‘imagine, create and collaborate’ on behalf of the environment, together. In 2017 Ciara was chosen for Peace Action Co-operation in Europe, in which she was brought to Georgia and Poland being trained as a designer of peace education specifically focusing on inner and environmental wellbeing. Ciara has traveled the world studying with Masters and Elders seeking inspiration from our ancient cultures for routes to restoring environmental and inner wellbeing. Her travels have taken her from sipping tea with Taoist Masters on Mountains in China to attending Native American ceremonies with a Wolf Clan Tribe in Canada, to sleeping in the desert in the Middle East. These real-life journeys have inspired the AnimaVenture meditative journeys through nature. Ciara shares the wisdom gathered from these journeys in her guided meditation classes. Ciara completed a Masters in Digital Arts & Humanities achieving a (1H) in which she researched the progressive educational theories that underpin AnimaVenture, a key focus being transformative learning using emerging technologies and flow theory.
