University students can become overwhelmed and hopeless as they pursue their final capstone writing projects. They are also navigating trying times of overlapping crises such as poverty, environmental decay, and war. To address these challenges, our Capstone Writing Groups (CWG) are designed to develop students' writerly competence and enhance global citizenship traits of wisdom, courage, and compassion by utilizing contemplative and "soka" strategies. Our group sessions focus on "good" writing, time management, and self-care strategies. The findings indicate that our writing groups enhanced participants' writerly identity, writing skills, and critical reflection. They also fostered "soka" global citizenship traits. We advocate for contemplative approaches and "soka" global citizenship education to provide a human touch to supporting student writing.