Dalai Lama Fellows at Spelman
Social Innovation, Ethics & Contemplative Values
Start Your Journey
We are calling globally-minded citizens who want to build a more harmonious, peaceful, and sustainable world. Propose a year-long Compassion-in-Action project that addresses one of the five Global Challenges in your community:
- Poverty,
- Violence,
- Gender inequities,
- Environmental devastation, and
- Cross-cultural antagonisms.
Join an international network of Fellows who are committed to social change rooted in secular ethics, contemplative values, and compassion.
When the Dalai Lama authorized this program, he suggested that we work in the "hard places." This year, our program is seeking proposals for year-long Compassion-in-Action projects that will address these challenges while working at the intersection of justice, peace, and ecology.
We are interested in supporting efforts that will strengthen unlikely alliances and improve well-being in locations where economic impoverishment, violence and/or discord, and ecological degradation intersect. Ideal projects will have layers that respond to each of these intersecting challenges.
As a Fellow, you:
- Design and launch a project to address a significant challenge in your community;
- Travel to the Ethical Leadership Assembly (ELA) in June near San Francisco, to connect with Fellows from around the world and to deepen your leadership capacity;
- Receive up to $10,000 in funding for your project and travel to the ELA; and,
Participate in a distinctive, year-long curriculum with ongoing, personalized coaching.
Learn more about Fellowship journey on our website.
To apply: http://bit.ly/DLFApp2015 (Deadline: Monday, December 15 @ 11:59 pm EST)
Eligibility
Enrollment as a full-time student at Spelman during the Fellowship year;
Ability to attend the Ethical Leadership Assembly (ELA) from June 11-18, 2015 and again in June 2016;
Availability to engage with the Tilling the Soil curriculum and refine the proposed compassion-in-action project beginning March 1st, both through self-guided learning and conversations with Dalai Lama Fellows Program Directors;
Commitment to dedicating sufficient time and energy to the proposed project, the year-long Ethical Leadership curriculum, and the Dalai Lama Fellows community.
About Us
Dalai Lama Fellows, a distinctive, secular global program personally authorized by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, envisions and works towards a world that tends to the good of the whole as well as of the individual. We do this by guiding a global network of young social entrepreneurs to deepen their effectiveness by merging innovation with secular ethics, contemplative values, and compassion.
Connect With Us
Bela Shah, Program Officer
Christian Simamora, Program Director
csimamora@dalailamafellows.org
General inquiries
Email: info@dalailamafellows.org
Website: http://dalailamafellows.org/
Location: San Francisco, CA
Phone: 415-400-8627
Facebook: facebook.com/DalaiLamaFellows
Twitter: @DLFellows