When | Friday, October 21 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and Saturday, October 22 from 8:30 a.m to 3:00 p.m.
Where | Bell Performing Arts Centre, 6250-144 Street, Surrey, B.C.
What | "This is such a fascinating conference!” says The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education's president and CEO, Fiona Douglas-Crampton. “We bring together renowned experts with the most up-to-date research on Heart-Mind Well-Being, and they make the link to how it plays out in our lives. The experience is not only informative, but inspiring and strengthens us emotionally. If you have children in your life, whether you are a parent, family member, educator, community service worker or counsellor, this event is an invaluable resource for both personal and professional growth.” Experts include:
•Maria LeRose, Heart-Mind Conference moderator, adjunct professor in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC, award-winning television producer, and interviewer of world leaders including the Dalai Lama and Mikhail Gorbachev
•Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, applied developmental psychologist, Human Development, Learning and Culture professor, and director of UBC's Human Early Learning Partnership
•Michael Ungar, bestselling author, international resilience expert and Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience at Dalhousie University
Why | “A growing body of research is demonstrating that balancing education of the mind and the heart – by consciously teaching our kids social and emotional competencies, as well as academic ones, in school – can significantly benefit overall academic performance,” says The Dalai Lama Center's communication manager David Samis. “Emotional well-being and cognitive function are clearly interdependent.”
CASEL, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, reports that “students receiving quality SEL [social and emotional learning] instruction demonstrated achievement scores an average of 11 percentile points higher than students who did not receive SEL instruction.
Register | Online
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Catherine Roscoe Barr, BSc Neuroscience, is a Vancouver-based writer, wellness coach and founder of The Life Delicious. Before settling on the West Coast she lived in Sydney, Toronto, Oregon, Montana, and practically everywhere in Alberta. She can be found jogging with her adorable dog, dining with her fabulous husband or voraciously reading anywhere comfy.
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