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Join His Holiness the Dalai Lama, along with world-renowned scholars and K-12 educators, in a virtual conversation on cultivating compassion and dignity in schools

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama has spoken for many years about the importance of educating the heart. For educators and young people, this message has never been more important.

Today, young people carry both tremendous stress and incredible capacity for agency and action. Hence, there’s a need for caring adults who see and support young people and systems that hold their dignity at the center. Educators are essential in tending to the hearts and minds of young people, and yet, they too carry enormous stress and have limited support to realize the dreams that led them to the teaching profession.

The Compassion & Dignity for Educators project was developed in response to the needs and dreams of educators. It brings together Crown Institute researchers and practitioners, K-12 educators, and Compassion Institute contemplative experts. From these many sources of expertise, we are designing and studying programs and practices to support educators in cultivating compassion and dignity in schools.

A recent success of the Compassion & Dignity for Educators Project was the launch of an online certificate program that is part of CU Boulder School of Education’s master’s program in teacher leadership. Thanks to a generous donation from the Hemera Foundation, an inaugural cohort of K-12 educators also are engaged as learners in the certificate program, and their learning will inform program refinements and expansions.

In conversation with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, educators will share their experiences and seek guidance about how to bring compassion and dignity into their work and their lives. 

 

HHDL
His Holiness the14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
PD
Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano
University of Colorado Boulder
Sona
Sona Dimidjian, PhD
Institute Director, Renée Crown Wellness Institute • Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience University of Colorado Boulder
TJ
Thupten Jinpa, PhD
President, Compassion Institute
Espinoza
Manuel Espinoza, PhD
Director, Right2Learn Dignity Lab • Associate Professor, School of Education & Human Development University of Colorado Denver
BI
Benjamin Inouye, M.Ed.
8th Grade English Teacher, Yuma Middle School • Yuma School District 1, Northeast Colorado BOCES
JM
John McCluskey, MS
Principal, Centennial Middle School • Boulder Valley School District
AP
Ashley Potvin, PhD
Research Associate, Renée Crown Wellness Institute University of Colorado Boulder
BR
Brittany Rose, M.Ed.
1st Grade Teacher (Dual Language) Basalt Elementary School • Roaring Fork School District
Jovita
Jovita Schiffer
Extended Learning and Community Programs Manager • Boulder Valley School District

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