2021 Benefitting Society - Facens University Center - Brazil

2021 Benefitting Society - Facens University Center - Brazil

LIS - Flourishing humanised professionals for the 21st century

The moment we are born, we are exposed to long term issues that have been established as normal, such as extreme poverty, inequality, and climate crisis. The new generations need much more than technical knowledge to face the complex challenges of the 21st century. They ought to have inner resources for self-management, resilience, compassion, and empathy.

Aiming at offering complementary skills to the technical education, Social Innovation Lab (LIS), has been developing human centered programs based on Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning. This methodology is fundamentally based on three dimensions, which broadly encompass the types of knowledge and competencies it seeks to foster in students: (1) Awareness, (2) Compassion, and (3) Engagement.

LIS, guided by this approach, aims to develop opportunities for the flourishing of future humanized professionals. These professionals will be the next generation of leaders who will help their communities to overcome future crises, as well as achieve social and environmental well-being.

Top 3 learnings:

1. Success should not only be measured in financial terms but rather on the number of people you may impact.
2. Youth want to be the change generation.
3. Education must consider students from an integral standpoint, including cognitive, social and inner values.

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