Sowing Seeds Workshops
Sowing Seeds to Change the World
If we're serious about preparing young people for their future, educators and schools everywhere must provide students with the knowledge, tools, and motivation required to create healthy, peaceful, and sustainable lives for themselves, other people, all species and the planet.
Humane Education offers a way for us to do just that.
Learn effective ways to inspire and empower your students of all ages to become conscientious changemakers and effective problem solvers for a humane world.
You’ll leave this workshop equipped to bring the humane education lens to your teaching and empowered to become an even more effective and dynamic educator.
Our revolutionary Sowing Seeds Workshop will help you:
- Bring dynamic humane education activities to your students and gain insights for integrating the humane education lens into your teaching.
- Increase your knowledge about the interconnectedness of human rights, animal protection, environmental preservation and issues of culture, media & consumerism.
- Learn how you and your students can help people, animals, the environment, and yourselves at the same time.
- Communicate with others more compassionately and effectively.
- Connect with like-minded people and become part of a strong and exciting movement.
"Excellent workshop that will help me both professionally and personally in creating a more humane community. I appreciate the commitment to non-judgmental, critical thinking content.”
~ Linda Jariz, Maine
What will you learn?
The 4 elements that comprise quality humane education:
- Providing accurate information about the pressing issues of our time
- Fostering the 3 Cs of curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking
- Instilling the 3 Rs of reverence, respect, and responsibility
- Offering positive choices and the tools for problem-solving
What does humane education do for you and your students?
Humane Education is an approach to teaching and learning that addresses the global consequences of our lifestyles, behaviors, and the systems we support, and teaches students to:
- Seek accurate information about the complex issues of our time and how these issues affect people, animals and the environment.
- Develop reverence, respect, and a sense of responsibility for others and for the natural world.
- Cultivate the ability to think critically and creatively and to evaluate information intelligently and objectively.
- Gain the passion and tools to successfully solve problems.
- Use the power that they have to make a profound difference in the world through their individual choices, their work, and their activism.
Each participant receives a copy of the book The Power and Promise of Humane Education by IHE President Zoe Weil, which includes strategies and sample activities that educators can incorporate into their teaching in age-appropriate ways.
Whether you’re an educator, activist or concerned citizen, our Sowing Seeds Workshop will help channel your passion for a better world into effective and fulfilling humane education.
As a high school student, I found [Sowing Seeds] the most educational thing I have ever been part of.... my goals have become clear. You have shown me I can do anything. This was life changing, and I will never forget it. You are changing the world, and make me feel like I can too."
~ Allison Jaquish, British Columbia, Boulder, CO
Ready to Take Action?
- Learn how to bring a Sowing Seeds Workshop to your community.
- Contact: Amy Morley at Amy@HumaneEducation.org or (207) 667-1025 for more information.
Want to Learn More?
- Learn more about the Sowing Seeds Workshops by reading what other SS graduates had to say.
Humane education is so important to the future of our world. The tools and information offered in this workshop will truly help me to further the cause through my teaching and to relate better to others whose world views differ from mine.”
~ Regina Milano, Connecticut
Want More Sowing Seeds?
- Check out our Teaching for a Positive Future online course.
- See photos from previous Sowing Seeds Workshops on our Facebook page or our Flickr page.
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July 14, 2012 - 8:30 am to July 14, 2012 - 5:00 pm | Location: Institute for Humane Education
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