Reinventing Education for Human Flourishing Ft. YooNa Kim w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy
Description
In a special series devoted to empathy in education with leaders and fellows of Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL), watch this episode to learn how to foster human flourishing in a variety of academic and organizational contexts.
YooNa Kim, Director of Well-being and Culture for citiesRISE—a global platform focused on transforming mental health policy and practice—reflects on how academic and workplace pressures shape mental health outcomes. She also describes the co-creation work she is doing in India, Kenya, South Africa, and Sweden.
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00:53 Introduction
01:29 About YooNa Kim
03:37 YooNa’s backstory
09:37 How does academic pressure impact kids’ mental health?
14:26 If YooNa could reinvent education, what would she do?
17:18 About citiesRISE
22:47 Classroom interventions for gratitude, kindness and hope across cultures
28:04 The power of self-affirmations
34:08 How is empathy defined within different cultural contexts?
40:16 The difference between being nice and being kind
43:13 What role does empathy play in education?
48:50 YooNa Kim’s Purposeful Empathy story
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SHOW NOTES
Video edited by Green Horizon Studio
United States
