Dalai Lama Centerfor Peace and Education:Educating the HeartCasE for suPPort

We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don’t make peace with ourselves.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

We must understand each other and work in harmony with one another, because it is our responsibility to develop in human beings their natural disposition for peace.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education is a charitable

organization based in Vancouver, Canada that educates the heart

and fosters compassion through creative learning, facilitating

and applying research, and connecting people and ideas.

Committed to the Promotion of PeaceMore than ever, people the world over are in need of a voice that speaks to the idea of peace, beginning with peace within oneself.

They want a means by which people of all ages, faiths, cultural and economic backgrounds can come together in the pursuit of one vision: global peace and understanding.

A means by which people will be encouraged to pursue inner peace and harmony in all areas of their lives: their home, their family, their community, their workplace, their environment and the world, in essence transforming lives by “educating the heart.”

The fulfillment of that global vision is at the core of the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education.

Global reach, Local PresenceFounded in 2005 as a charitable trust by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Victor Chan, the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education is a secular and non-political organization that embodies His Holiness’ lifelong commitment to compassion and inner well-being.

After an overwhelmingly well-received trip by the Dalai Lama to Vancouver in 2004, Victor Chan proposed this vision of a Center to His Holiness.

Recognizing Vancouver as a multi-ethnic city, a place of peace and compassion, the Dalai Lama endorsed this concept and inaugurated the Dalai Lama Center during the Vancouver Dialogues in 2006.

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The Center holds the prestigious honor of being one of the very few institutions to which His Holiness has lent his name. It builds upon the Dalai Lama’s unique and compelling appeal as a world figure who reaches out to all people with a message of compassion, kindness, interconnectedness and mutual understanding. It fosters and supports “education of the heart” through education, dialogue and research.

Although the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education, as well as the future physical site that the Center plans to establish, is located in Vancouver, its message will be highly visible on the world stage. Using modern technology and acting as a beacon of inspiration, as well as drawing visitors from around the world, the Center will be an emblem of a peace-minded, compassionate city.

top Program funding PrioritiesThe Center is planning for a physical site in the core of Vancouver that will serve as a versatile, multi-purpose gathering place for people around the world. Although the physical facility does not yet exist, its philosophy is alive through programming and the current administrative offices. Listed below are the programs that are currently in progress and that, over the next year to 18 months, will require priority attention for financial and resource support.

CEntEr for tHE aDvanCEmEnt of HEart-minD EDuCation

Inspired by the Dalai Lama’s belief that education of the heart is essential for the development of a compassionate society, the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education is establishing a Center for the Advancement of Heart-Mind Education (CAHME) to advance education that addresses the full capacities of children.

CAHME will provide impetus, focus and direction for a Heart-Mind movement that will help children and youth develop caring relationships, make responsible decisions, resolve conflict, and understand and manage their emotions. It will support a growing network of individuals and organizations – regionally and globally – committed to creating environments where young people develop positive human qualities such as compassion, altruism, empathy, mindful awareness and a sense

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of purpose. In consultation and collaboration with scientists, schools, policy-makers and community agencies, CAHME will engage in activities that enlarge public understanding, share research, create tools for learning and shine a light on stories of success. It will especially foster the interconnection of research and practice.

Why CAHME now? There are many forces that make this an optimal time to launch CAHME. A growing body of scientific research is revealing important information about the roots of caring. schools and community organizations are using this research to develop and deliver evidence-based programs and practices that have been proven to encourage the development of positive human qualities that lead to more success in school and life. British Columbia already has a number of distinctive educational policies and practices that place priority on social and emotional learning and social responsibility, and it is home to several eminent researchers in the field. CAHME will build on existing local and international strengths to stimulate the emergence of British Columbia as a world center for educational approaches that emphasize the heart-mind connection, with a view to extending the global influence of these practices.

The activities of CAHME, and the resulting diffusion of research demonstrating the linkages between emotional and cognitive development, may lead forward to the creation of a collaborative school that will model heart-mind education throughout its curriculum.

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inspiration for the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education

the Dalai Lama passionately believes in three things:

To contribute to world peace we must first foster personal peace.

We are propelled along the path of personal peace by internalizing universal human values: compassion, love, a good heart.

To cultivate these universal values, we need to change our notion

of education so that both the heart and mind are nurtured.

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The Dalai Lama Center is investigating the possibility of collaborating with other parties to establish a major program of scholarships and fellowships, in order to create an international learning community of exemplary compassion-in-action practitioners. The program is intended to nurture and sustain secular ethics, compassion in action and service to humanity in the lives and work of selected undergraduate leaders and early-career human-services professionals, drawn from institutions world-wide.

Derived from the successful prototype at the University of California, Irvine, the scholars Program would be established at selected partner universities in north America and throughout the world. Each spring, partnering universities will select one or more undergraduate scholars to complete a mentored compassion-in-action project during the following academic year. In parallel with the scholars, there will be a program for established early-career professionals who are employed at international non-governmental organizations engaged in working for social change. These Fellows will be drawn from the staff or colleagues of partnership organizations and provided with a year of sabbatical support to advance their work and professional development.

All scholars and Fellows, with others of shared outlook and interests, will be integrated into a Global Learning Community. It will include attending an annual weeklong convergence activity at the Center in Vancouver, and ongoing affiliation and networking to ensure that selection as a scholar or Fellow evolves into a lifelong involvement. It is anticipated that, over time, the program would come to be recognized not only as an aggregation of accomplished and outstanding individuals, but also as an impetus and engine for compassionate action in the world.

ConneCting for Change

The Center will host a series of dialogues, hosted both locally and internationally, that bring people together across boundaries of business, philanthropy and civil society to build understanding and create inter-connectedness. The program facilitates meaningful conversations and provides tools to inspire personal reflection and transformation and new relationships with others across sectors and professions.

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The program in development for 2009–2010 and beyond will build on Connecting for Change 2006 and Connecting for Change 2009, the latter a key element of the Vancouver Peace Summit: Nobel Laureates in Dialogue (Vancouver, Canada, september 2009) which engaged business and civil society leaders and philanthropists from north and south America, Africa and Asia. Building on these landmark events, participants in Connecting for Change will be supported to learn with and from each other about how to create new cross-sector collaborations and how to strengthen existing collaborations that address the most pressing social issues of our time.

Informed by the Dalai Lama’s universal values of compassion, peaceful cooperation and mutual understanding, Connecting for Change will continue to support and inspire senior leaders who share a common desire to create a better world.

sPEakErs sEriEs

The Dalai Lama Center hosts speakers and public events throughout the year that focus on key areas of interest to the Center and to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Hosted speakers feature topics such as science and its relationship to spirituality, education of the heart and related research, and the development of compassion and its contribution to the public good. The speakers series seeks to create, nourish and sustain the Center’s internal and external communities, and to reach and engage the widest possible audience through various media and by partnering with other organizations.

Programs under DevelopmentThe Dalai Lama Center is continuing to develop programming ideas and possibilities that will expand its offerings and contribute to realizing its mission.

For example, it is actively planning for the introduction of a robust and well-supported Social Media Network. This network will connect people and ideas using the technology of social media to create ripple effects and accelerate the power of change. With the aid of electronic media it will build a virtual community of people who share the vision of global peace and understanding.

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The Dalai Lama Center also continues to investigate the possibility of establishing a Collaborative School. Growing out of the activities of the Center for the Advancement of Heart-Mind Education, the school might be established through a partnership within the public school system and in collaboration with universities. The school would emphasize mindful awareness, imagination, compassion and engagement along with academic learning. It would integrate and exemplify the best of Heart-Mind Education throughout its curriculum and through continuing innovation and research.

The Center continues to explore ways to engage with its local and global communities in advancing the cause of peace through education, dialogues and research. It welcomes ideas and support.

a Home for the CenterThe Dalai Lama Center also has a long-term goal to establish a physical Center which will provide a home for its programs and function as a special gathering place and focal point for people of all walks of life from near and far. This unique institution will be an important global legacy providing a permanent home for the secular commitments of the Dalai Lama: to advance his twin goals of personal growth and acting in service of the greater good by “educating the heart.”

The Center will radiate positive social change not just in Vancouver, but throughout the world. It will offer programs that tap into the myriad international alliances and initiatives forged by the Dalai Lama over the last few decades. It will also deliver one-of-a-kind lectures and workshops hosted by experts on the cutting edge of science, culture, arts, education and entertainment.

The Center’s programming will focus on two essential dimensions of our humanity: our need for intellectual sustenance and our yearning for emotional and spiritual well-being. It will be a venue designed for active, experiential participation, inspiring meaningful interaction between people from all walks of life.

Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together.

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financial support for the Dalai Lama CenterThe Dalai Lama Center offers an unparalleled opportunity to transform the Dalai Lama’s universal message and values into a resource for the whole world.

Your help is needed. The Center is an ambitious and complex project; achieving its goals depends on the goodwill, energy and financial support of concerned individuals and organizations. As a registered charity, the Center gratefully receives donations from the local and global community to support its mission.

Donors and funders can direct their support to any of the programs outlined above, to the creation of a home for the Center, or to help meet general Center needs in support of educating the heart.

The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education is a Canadian registered charity and charitable donation receipts are tax deductible in Canada. Us donors may also donate through the Tides Foundation and receive charitable receipts for Us tax purposes. If you are interested in making a gift in memory of someone you care about, making a legacy gift in your will, giving a gift of stock or securities or making an in-kind gift, we would be pleased to speak with you.

Donations may be made on line, through Pay Pal, at www.dalailamacenter.org/donate or by communicating with the Center by mail or in person:

Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education Po Box 3662, station TerminalVancouver BC V6B 3Y8 CanadaEmail: info@dalailamacenter.orgTelephone: 1-604-215-2352Fax: 1-866-887-9919

The Center would also be pleased to discuss other ideas or proposals for designation of gifts. Please contact: Victor Chan, Founding Director or Rennie Keates, Managing Director through the contact information indicated above.

tHank you for your suPPort!

Dalai Lama Center for Peace and EducationCase for Support

DLC board of trusteesvictor Chan: Co-founded the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education with the Dalai Lama in 2005. Chan has known the Dalai Lama for nearly 40 years and co-authored with him the Wisdom of Forgiveness: Intimate Conversations and Journeys (Riverhead). The book was shortlisted for the Best spiritual Book of 2005 (nautilus Prize, new York) and translated into 14 languages. He is also the author of Tibet Handbook: A Pilgrimage Guide (Moon), an 1100-page guide to the sacred places of Tibet.

Evan alderson: Former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at simon Fraser University, and Founding Director of the school for the Contemporary Arts, Founding Director of the Graduate Liberal studies Program, a co-founder of the Integrated studies Program and a co-founder of the Learning strategies Group, all at sFU.

brenda Eaton: Brenda Eaton is a corporate director serving on a number of public and not-for-profit boards. she is Chair of B.C. Housing. she has had many years of public service, including as Deputy Minister to British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell, Deputy Minister of Finance for B.C., and Chief Financial officer for the Capital Health Region.

James Hoggan: owner of James Hoggan & Associates, Jim is Chair of Canada’s most influential environmental organization, the David suzuki Foundation, Chair of the Canadian chapter of Al Gore’s organization, The Climate Project, and co-founder of the influential climate change website DesmogBlog.com. His is also the author of the PR tips book Do the Right Thing and of the upcoming Climate Cover-up.

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Gwyn morgan: Distinguished business leader, recognized through numerous awards and honorary distinctions, including being named Canada’s most respected CEo in 2005 in a survey conducted by Ipsos Reid of 250 business leaders in Canada, and an inductee to the Alberta Business Hall of Fame.

martha C. Piper: Past president of the University of British Columbia and the recipient of 16 honorary degrees, Dr. Piper is an officer in the order of Canada and a member of the order of British Columbia. she was named Educator of the Year by the Learning Partnership in 2004 and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, oxford University in 2007.

thomas rafael: For the last 25 years, he has worked as a lawyer with such notable and diverse clients as nike and Greenpeace and has been involved in the development of socially responsible housing and other forms of innovative and sustainable land development.

advisors His Holiness the Dalai Lama Hon. Kim CampbellJimmy CarterTendzin Choegyalshirin EbadiMairead MaguireRigoberta Menchú Tumsakyong MiphamArchbishop Desmond TutuJody WilliamsBetty WilliamsMuhammad Yunus

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We can never obtain peace in the outer world

until we make peace with ourselves.

HIs HoLInEss THE DALAI LAMA

september 2009

Po Box 3662, station TerminalVancouver BCV6B 3Y8 CanadaEmail: info@dalailamacenter.orgTelephone: 1-604-215-2352Fax: 1-866-887-9919

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