Basics

Question 1

Dimensions

Answer 1

Awareness, Compassion, Engagement

Question 2

Domains

Answer 2

Personal, Social, Systems

Question 3

Three Levels of Understanding

Answer 3

Received Knowledge, Critical Insight, Embodied Understanding

Question 4

Awareness

Answer 4

Students will gain greater first-person attentiveness and awareness of their own thoughts and feelings;
greater awareness of others and their mental lives;
and greater awareness of interdependence as it relates to their own lives and to broader systems within which
they live.

Question 5

Compassion

Answer 5

Students will cultivate skills of emotional hygiene and self-care;
empathy and courageous compassion for others; and an abiding recognition of common humanity that values all people everywhere.

Question 6

Engagement

Answer 6

Students will develop increasingly sophisticated self-regulation skills and the ability to discern behavior that is beneficial to self and others from that which is not; the ability to relate productively and caringly to others; and the ability to engage effectively and confidently on a larger community and global level for broad
social benefit.