FriendlyCare has been working with Templeton World Charity Foundation to develop a program for Filipino College Age students. This program is being qualified via a randomized control trial in the University of the Philippines Diliman and the University of the Cordilleras.

Templeton World Charity Foundation supports a diverse group of researchers to discover new knowledge, develop new tools, and launch new innovations that make a lasting impact on human flourishing.

CMS is located at 180 Sudbury Road, Toronto.

The Centre for Mindfulness Studies is a charitable social enterprise founded in 2011 in downtown Toronto. It is the leading professional development and service delivery organization for mindfulness-based interventions in Canada.

Its programs follow the Mindfulness Based Teacher Assessment criteria followed in Oxford, Bangor Exeter and University of California in San Diego.

Together with FriendlyCare, and UP Diliman, CMS brought to the Philippines the 1st MBCT Facilitator Certification training in 2018 .

The University of the Cordilleras is the 2nd university for the staging of the trial. To introduce Mindfulness, a group of its professors and staff had gone through the 6-week Mindful U program.

FriendlyCare has been giving Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Program to UP Diliman students, faculty and staff since 2018. UP Diliman sent faculty to the 1st MBCT Facilitator Certification Training Program in 2018. The University has once again played a key role in the Templeton-funded research with its Department of Psychology leading the research design, field implementation and analysis of results to be reported in Q1 2022.

FriendlyCare together with CMS developed special online programs for asynchronous and synchronous modalities for Guang Ming College--Practicing Mindfulness and Mindful U. Focused on Life Education the college aims to provide learning that is humanistic and holistic to cultivate in its students' critical faculties and creative sensibilities to form their character.