14:00 – 14:45 Dr. Geshe Lobsang Negi
Title："SEE Learning®: Addressing a Critical Need in Education"
Abstract: This presentation will provide an overview of SEE Learning® (Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning), a comprehensive curriculum and framework developed in close collaboration between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Emory University. SEE Learning is addressing the critical challenges facing both students and educators on a global basis. The presentation will also include a brief interactive activity that demonstrates how SEE Learning is educating the heart and mind for students around the world.
Bio:
Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Ph.D is Executive Director of the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory University (Emory Compassion Center), formerly the Emory-Tibet Partnership. In this capacity, he has supervised the academic endeavors undertaken by Emory University in collaboration with His Holiness the Dalai Lama since 1998. Dr. Negi is also a Professor of Pedagogy in Emory University’s Department of Religion.
Dr. Negi has been at the forefront of compassion science, collaborating with numerous researchers from multiple disciplines to examine the mechanisms behind compassion and its effects on the mind and body.
Through the Emory Compassion Center, Dr. Negi developed—and now oversees—three programs that are at the intersection of science and spirituality. These programs are supported by robust research components as the Emory Compassion Center works to advance a global culture of compassion.
The first of these three programs began in 2004, when Dr. Negi developed CBCT® (Cognitively-Based Compassion Training), a secularized contemplative program based on Tibetan Buddhist mind training practices that deliberately and systematically work to cultivate compassion.
Following the CBCT® program, Dr. Negi developed the Robert A. Paul Emory-Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI). Under his direction, ETSI created a comprehensive, six-year-long modern science curriculum specifically for Tibetan monks and nuns and supported its integration into monastic education. Currently, ETSI is training monastics to become science teachers and researchers.
At the invitation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dr. Negi led the team that created a third program called SEE Learning®(Social, Emotional and Ethical Learning), a framework and curricula for kindergarten through university level education and its accompanying educator resources. He now oversees the implementation of SEE Learning on a global level.
Born in Kinnaur, a remote Himalayan region adjoining Tibet, Dr. Negi is a former Tibetan Buddhist monk. He began his monastic training at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala, India and continued his education at the six-hundred-year-old Drepung Loseling Monastery. He received the Geshe Lharampa degree in 1994, the highest academic degree conferred in the Tibetan monastic system. Dr. Negi completed his Ph.D. at Emory University in 1999
14:45-15:40 Reports from School educators who are implementing SEE Learning in Japan:
Dr. Tomoko Imai (Jiyugaoka Gakuen high school)
Ms. Tomomi Harada, (Ohinata elementary school)
15:40 -16:10 Comment; Mr. Kamohara Shinji (Newspicks Education)
16:10-16:30 Discussion
Chair: Dr. Masahiro Fujino
