About Calm Lab
Calm Lab is a grassroots initiative born out of necessity and quiet courage. Built through pilot work in 2024 and officially established in 2025, it emerged as a direct response to the needs of youth affected by Myanmar’s ongoing conflict, many of whom live with physical injuries, displacement, trauma, and disrupted futures. These young people have lost not only stability, but access to education, skills, and opportunities.
Calm Lab exists to change that trajectory.
We are not a physical center. We are a trauma-informed, mobile project run by a small core team that delivers mental-health intervention and psychoeducation directly to youth whether they are inside conflict zones, living in border camps, or staying in community safe spaces. We also collaborate with rehabilitation centers, but our primary focus is on direct, accessible support through both online and on-site sessions.
Alongside mental health care, we equip youth with soft-power and workplace skills so they can rebuild their future with confidence. Our trainings include leadership fundamentals, project-management basics, communication skills, facilitation skills, and youth-centered empowerment programs. Instead of traditional vocational classes, we prepare young people to become work-place-ready to be capable of leading, contributing, and re-shaping their own lives.
By integrating trauma-informed care with skill-building, Calm Lab ensures that healing is not just recovery, but transformation.
Vision
A world where wounds, both visible and invisible, become the roots of growth and strength.
Mission
Calm Lab supports youth affected by conflict in Myanmar by combining trauma-informed mental-health care with psychoeducation and workplace-readiness training. Our goal is to help them rebuild their lives with emotional strength, practical confidence, and the power to lead themselves, and others, toward a future shaped by possibility, not trauma.