Kumanga C. Andrahennadi, Ph.D.

Kumanga C. Andrahennadi, Ph.D. is the Founder/Director of Centre for the Advanced Learning of Mindfulness (CALM). Kumanga is an international Mindfulness Trainer, Researcher, Educator and Consultant. She has developed and delivered mindfulness-based interventions for the public and private sectors including to the education sector (schools and universities), police organizations, the mental health sector, and non-government organizations in the U.K., U.S.A., Europe and the Middle East.

Kumanga is an International Mindfulness Trainer certified under the prestigious Oxford Mindfulness Foundation (OMF), a partner of the University of Oxford, U.K., and delivers the ‘Mindfulness for Life (MBCT-L)’ and ‘Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT-D)’ one-to-one sessions, workshops and courses. She has also completed the teacher training retreats for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at the University of Bangor, U.K. and Mindfulness-Based Education Programme under Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh at the Plum Village in France.

Kumanga completed her Ph.D. at the University of Dundee, Scotland, where she developed a novel mindfulness-based programme entitled ‘Mindfulness for Earth’. Furthermore, she has successfully developed and delivered the ‘Mindfulness for Trauma Management and Conflict Resolution (MTMCR)’ Programme and Retreats. She delivers the MTMCR Programmes to the police organizations in the U.K., including to the Counter Terrorism (CT) Department at the London Metropolitan Police. She co-organized the first-ever dialogue between His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and a western police force (the Metropolitan Police, U.K.) in 2020.

She is a mindfulness trainer certified under the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation (OMF), a partner of the University of Oxford, U.K. Dr. Andrahennadi is currently co-leading the Mindfulness, Spirituality and Planetary Health Initiative headed by Global Affairs at University of Connecticut (UConn), U.S.A., in partnership with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Faith for Earth and CALM.

Dr. Andrahennadi is currently co-leading the Mindfulness, Spirituality and Planetary Health (MS&PH) Initiative headed by the Office of Global Affairs at University of Connecticut (UConn), U.S.A. In 2023-2024, funded by the MS&PH Initiative (at UConn) and EcoPeace Middle East, Dr. Andrahennadi successfully completed a 6-month process of ‘Mindfulness for Trauma Management and Conflict Resolution (MTMCR)’ Programme and Retreat (in Cyprus) for EcoPeace Middle East staff from Palestine, Jordan and Israel. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (in 2024), EcoPeace is the only regional (tri-lateral) organization with offices based in Ramallah (Palestine), Amman (Jordan) and Tel Aviv (Israel). Furthermore, in 2025, Kumanga delivered the MTMCR programme and retreat (in Cyprus) to 180 young climate activists, young professionals/teachers and EcoPeace staff from the MENA region.