3-6 January 2020: Education Council concludes its second workshop on Secular Ethics for Pre-Primary school teachers

3-6 January 2020: The four-day workshop on Secular Ethics for Pre-Primary school teachers has been successfully concluded on 6 January 2020 at Drepung Losel Ling Center for Meditation and Science.

The facilitators for the workshop included Geshe Lhakdor, Chairman of the Education Council and Director of LTWA; Prof Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Director of the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-based Ethics, Emory University; Geshe Dadul Namgyal and Mr Tsondue Samphel, Senior Interpreters of the Center in Emory University.

The workshop was exclusively meant for all the Pre-Primary school teachers from five Tibetan settlements in South India and three Tibetan settlements in Central India, in which 33 of them participated. Additionally, 8 teachers from Monastic schools also attended the workshop.

The four-day workshop covered topics including the history and development of the framework of the SEE Learning, introduction to the scope and sequence of the SEE Learning curriculum, structure of a SEE Learning experience, components and enduring capabilities, compassion, resilience, emotion, sensation, attention and interdependence. The daily routine of the workshop was talking about certain topics, rationale and purpose behind the particular subjects, followed by related activities to have critical insight into the covered themes.

Source: tibet(dot)net

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A group photo of the participants and facilitators at the closing ceremony of the workshop.

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