Join us for the Spiritual Intelligence in Education Online Symposium: Teaching from Within – An Integral Approach to Education, where leading experts will explore the profound connection between spirituality and learning. In a time when youth mental health challenges are on the rise, this symposium brings together renowned speakers to share cutting-edge research, practical insights, and transformative strategies for fostering well-being, resilience, and deeper meaning in education.
Thought leaders Danah Zohar, Lisa Miller, Cindy Wigglesworth, Guy Claxton, TaynĂŁ Malaspina and Laurence Freeman will discuss how spiritual intelligence enhances teaching and learning, supports emotional well-being, and cultivates a more holistic approach to education. Whether you are an educator, school leader, researcher, or simply passionate about the future of education, this symposium offers a unique opportunity to gain valuable perspectives and practical tools.
| 01:00 – 01:30pm | Opening Session (TaynĂŁ Malaspina) How can Spirituality help the Next Generations? |
| 01:30 – 02:15pm | Talk 1 (Danah Zohar) How Schools can Address the Youth Mental Health Crisis using the 12 Principles of Spiritual Intelligence |
| 02:15 – 03:00pm | Talk 2 (Lisa Miller) The Awakened Brain: Science of Realizing your Spiritual Awareness for Joy, Health and an Inspired Life |
| 03:00 – 03:15pm | Break |
| 03:15 – 04:00 pm | Talk 3 (Cindy Wigglesworth) The 21 Skills of Spiritual Intelligence – The Next Step beyond Emotional Intelligence |
| 04:00 – 04:45pm | Talk 4 (Guy Claxton) Grounded Spirituality: Young People thirst for Quality of Experience |
| 04:45 – 05:30 pm | Closing Session (Laurence Freeman) Where has the Joy gone? Reconnecting with our True Selves |
| 05:30 – 05:45 pm | Questions and Answers |
Languages available:
The talks will be in English and we will have simultaneous translation into Portuguese and Spanish.
Leader
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Tayna Malaspina
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Director of Young Adults Programme. Postgraduate at Spirituality and Consciousness Studies (PUC University). TaynĂŁ is the international director of the WCCM Young Adults Programme. Oblate (monastic in the world) of the WCCM. Graduated in Social Communication (ESPM-SP). In her Masters in Social Psychology (PUC-SP), she studied the relationship between happiness and meaning at work from Generation Y in Brazil. She has a postgraduate degree in Positive Psychology: Science of Well-being and Self-Realisation (PUC-RS), where she studied the development of spiritual intelligence through the practices of mindfulness and Christian meditation. In her postgraduate course in Spirituality and Consciousness Studies at PUC-RS, she studied Christian meditation in times of liquid modernity and burnout society.
Other Leaders
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Lisa Miller
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Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the Founder and Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology, and has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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Danah Zohar
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Physics and Philosophy at MIT. Postgraduate at Harvard University. Author of SQ – Spiritual Intelligence. Danah Zohar is a management thought leader, physicist, philosopher and author. Her best-selling books include Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live By and SQ – Spiritual Intelligence, The Ultimate Intelligence, which constitute ground-breaking work on SQ, spiritual intelligence and spiritual capital; ReWiring the Corporate Brain, The Quantum Society and The Quantum Self, previous work which extends the language and principles of quantum physics into a new understanding of human consciousness, psychology and social organization, particularly the organization of companies.
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Cindy Wigglesworth
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President of Deep Change. Cindy Wigglesworth, MA is the bestselling author of SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence (SelectBooks, 2012), a book that won a Hoffer Award for best spiritual book of 2013. SQ21 spiritual intelligence self-assessment has created a validated and diversity-appropriate way of having spiritual conversations in the workplace.
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Guy Claxton
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Cognitive scientist and educator. Author of Hare Brain and Tortoise Mind. Winchester University. Guy Claxton is Emeritus Professor of the Learning Sciences at Winchester University and Visiting Professor of Education at King's College London. He holds degrees from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, has previously taught and researched at Oxford University, Bristol University, and the University of London Institute of Education, and is an internationally renowned cognitive scientist and educator. Guy's research focuses on the cultivation of non-intellectual forms of real-world intelligence is family, school, sports, artistic and contemplative settings, especially with an interest in the implications of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions for the education and development of today's young people.
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Laurence Freeman
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Director of WCCM. Benedictine Monk. Author of a number of books on Christian Meditation.Oxford University. Laurence Freeman OSB is an English Benedictine monk and Catholic priest. He is the director of the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM), prior of its Benedictine Oblate community and director of Bonnevaux, the international centre of the WCCM in France. Freeman’s work also involves encouraging the teaching of meditation to children and university students. In 2005 he founded the John Main Centre for Meditation and Inter-Religious Dialogue at Georgetown University
Q&A with the Speakers
In each talk, you will have the opportunity to ask questions to the speaker
Access to Recordings
By registering, you'll be given access to the talks' recordings
Meet Fellow Meditators
Whatever the stage of your journey meet fellow meditators with whom to reflect and share your thoughts about this series in a safe environment
Meditate Together
We offer the opportunity to meditate together at the start of each session
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