Shelter
A safe place to sleep, to recover, and to keep a family together.
Where we have begun
The Maitreya Buddha Foundation
Every human being deserves the basics of a life.
Mindfulness programs and consciousness consulting for organisations, funding our humanitarian work.
What we offer
Three ways we serve
Our work with organisations sustains our work in the world.
For organisationsMindfulness Programs
Keynotes, workshops, leadership cohorts, retreats, and year-long partnerships.
From $4,500
For leadersConsciousness Consulting
Executive advisory, culture reviews, and transformation, led by Maitreya.
From $12,000
For the worldHumanitarian Projects
Food, water, shelter, and dignity for families in need, including in Nepal.
Support our work
Mindfulness programs
For your organisation
From a single keynote to a year-long partnership. Every program is shaped around your people, delivered in person or online.
Prices in Canadian dollars. See full program details
Who is Maitreya
Led by Maitreya
Consciousness consultant and awakening and liberation teacher, Vancouver, BC. Founder of the Maitreya Buddha Foundation.
- Spontaneous kundalini awakening at 21, followed by more than two decades of integration and teaching.
- Thousands of people worked with globally on anxiety, depression, addiction, and relational patterns.
- Studied with Tibetan Buddhist monks in Dharamsala and lineage holders across non-dual traditions.
- Degree in kinesiology; pursuing a second undergraduate degree in psychology, with the long-term goal of a doctorate.
Our foundation
Five values. One source.
The Five Human Values taught by Sri Sathya Sai Baba guide everything we do. Select a value to read more.
The ground of every value
Love, Prema
Unconditional, selfless love that recognizes the same divinity in all beings. Sai Baba taught that love is the foundation of all human values.
Read about LoveUnconditional, selfless love that recognizes the same divinity in all beings. Sai Baba taught that love is the foundation of all human values.
Living in alignment with what is real. Truth extends beyond honesty to recognizing the divine nature of existence.
Living with integrity, responsibility, and righteousness. Allowing our actions to reflect our highest understanding.
Discovering the inner stillness that is not dependent on external circumstances. True peace arises from within.
Causing no unnecessary harm through thought, word, or action. Living with compassion, respect, and reverence for all life.
Humanitarian work
The basics of life, for everyone
Seven basics every human being needs. Each project is led with local people who know their own communities.
One of our projects
Rebuilding homes in Nepal
Helping families who lost their homes to flash floods rebuild safe, lasting shelter.
Food
Nourishment that sustains a body and allows a mind to learn and rest.
VisionWater
Clean, safe water and sanitation, the quiet basis of all health.
VisionEducation
Learning that opens a life and lets a person shape their own future.
VisionClothing
Warmth, protection, and the simple dignity of being properly dressed.
VisionLove
To be seen, valued, and cared for. As essential as any material need.
VisionTeachings
Wisdom that alleviates suffering, freely offered and trauma-informed.
Vision
The suffering of another human being is not someone else’s tragedy. It is humanity calling us to remember who we are.
We were not born merely to witness the world’s suffering, but to become the love that ends it. Let no child go hungry, no family remain without shelter, and no human being feel forgotten.
For when we lift one life out of suffering, we lift the whole of humanity.
Get involved
Ways to help
Bring us in
A program or consulting engagement supports your people and funds our humanitarian work.
For organisationsVolunteer
Offer your skills in logistics, translation, design, legal, fundraising, or construction.
Offer your skillsPartner
We welcome trustworthy, community-rooted organisations working in basic needs, education, or healing.
Propose a partnership