The global Dalai Lama Fellows is a unique one-year leadership program for emerging social change makers designed to help them cultivate self-awareness, resilience, and compassion; broaden their cultural perspectives; learn how to engage with complex systems; and work with local communities in sustainable ways.
All program activities (12 – 16 hours/monthly) engage a variety of mindfulness and contemplative practices, and receptivity to such practices is a key priority. Based on the Head, Hearts, and Hands curriculum of the Dalai Lama Fellows program, the fellowship is intended to be a deep dive into new, embodied, identity-affirming, social-justice, and equity-informed approaches to building community, shifting conventional industries, and informing leadership models.
Over the course of a year, with the support of mentors and coaches, each Fellow implements a field project addressing a local challenge and learns how to interweave their own transformation with meaningful service and social change for their communities.
Please contact Associate Professor Donna Mejia with any questions: donna.mejia@colorado.edu