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From October 13–17 2025, Mindfulness van Commenée is hosting a 5-day silent retreat at Kuti Wildlife Reserve in Salima.

What is a mindfulness silent retreat?

During a mindfulness silent retreat, you are invited to literally step into silence. When you arrive, there’s still time to talk, to get to know eachother, ask your questions, and settle in. The silence begins on the evening of day 1.

Across the past nine years, over 159,000 people have attended the event, and 501 performing acts from 20 countries. The festival has gained national and international media coverage. It has so far achieved a media reach estimated at 66,200,000 people worldwide.

Because of its uniqueness and impact, the Tumaini Festival has been recognized worldwide, being an Honorable Mention of the 2021 Global Pluralism Award, winning the 2020 Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy & Support, and the 2018 World Bank Africa Region's Social Inclusion Hero Award. The festival was also a finalist for the 2020 Ockenden International Prize and a finalist for the 2020 Elevate Prize. In 2019, Tumaini Letu was represented at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, of which its Founder was a Refugee Co-sponsor.