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Gratefulness
WELCOME. We’re glad you’re here. May you discover the nourishing and transformative power of living gratefully — available to you within every moment of your life — through the offerings on this website and the warm heart of our global community.
Grateful living brings the abundant gifts of gratitude to life – in all the moments of our lives. It is a way of life that invites us to take nothing for granted, cultivating awareness of and appreciation for the fullness of our lives. Living gratefully helps us awaken to the opportunities that are always available – even in the most challenging times – to learn, grow, and extend ourselves with compassion to ourselves, others, and the world. As we endeavor to notice our inner and outer landscape with wider eyes, we deepen our engagement and embrace of life in all its poignancy and preciousness. We come alive, opening up to wonder, joy, and love.
Guiding principles serve as comforting and catalyzing touchstones to help us live gratefully:
With the support of these reminders, grateful living weaves practices in many forms throughout the moments of our lives, which makes us more resilient and available to life. Moving through life with a grateful heart uplifts us, makes a difference for others, and helps change the world.
A Network for Grateful Living, a non-profit organization, offers practices, resources, and belonging for those seeking a more awake, joyful, and meaning-filled life. We provide opportunities for personal reflection and simple ways to bring the benefits of grateful living into your day-to-day life, either “live” online through eCourses and practices, at in-person events around the country, or 24/7 on our website. All our online offerings are free so as to be accessible to all. Donations are warmly welcome. The world needs gratefulness now more than ever—and we’re here to support the practice.
What is Gratitude?
Ten True Things about Gratefulness
Cultivating a Practice: Grateful Living as a Way of Life
For a deeper dive, consider the book Wake Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted, written by Kristi Nelson, executive director of A Network for Grateful Living.
Sign up to receive our Word for the Day, twice-monthly newsletter, and/or Poem a Month by email.
Reflect on the Daily Question in the Practice Space online
Watch Br. David’s videos A Grateful Day, Blessings, and Stop. Look. Go.
Explore our curated Poetry Collection
Deepen your exploration in our Library of Resources
Share your grateful sentiments with our free eCards
Make gratefulness.org your homepage
Join or start a Grateful Gathering in your area or online
Attend Grateful Living workshops and events
Participate in live or on-demand eCourses and extended practices
Share the Gift of Grateful Living with others
A Network for Grateful Living is a U.S.-based, global nonprofit organization serving a growing movement of people who want to live more gratefully. Through a rich diversity of offerings, we support people to see the wonder and opportunity in every moment, and to act boldly with love, generosity, and respect towards one another, ourselves, and the Earth. Our commitment is for the gifts of grateful living to be available to people from all walks of life, and we strive to keep all that we do welcoming, inclusive, and accessible. As a community of practice, we believe in the exponential impact of grateful living, so we create opportunities for people to gather and learn together.
Our organization was founded in 2000 by Brother David Steindl-Rast, OSB, known as the “grandfather of gratitude” and one of the most important figures in the modern interfaith dialogue movement. Having Brother David at the heart of our genesis story is a blessing. His teachings are fundamental to what we offer the world.
This site is brought to you by A Network for Grateful Living, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All donations are fully tax deductible in the U.S.A.
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We are delighted to announce the release of Kristi Nelson’s book Wake Up Grateful