Youth: Compassion In Action

Tuesday, April 15. 3:00pm - 4:30pm. Lopez Room.

Description

The goal of this workshop will be to provide opportunities for youth to engage in conversations and action based on the shared value of compassion. This includes participation in a citywide Day of Interfaith Service on Earth Day (April 22nd) and the creation of a regional interreligious action movement that will encourage young people to clarify their values, foster understanding, and cooperate to serve the local and global community.

It will be a past, present, and future look at compassion in action (everything from Sikhism to the Underground Railroad and more). It will involve story telling, personal discovery, fun icebreakers, and activities geared towards demonstrating the thin divide between personal differences and similarities. Finally, it will focus on the development of collaborative long-term works of compassion to be created and led by youth.   

Presenter Bio

Diana Bonyhadi

Diana Bonyhadi is a member of Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue and has been enjoying her role as an adult facilitator for IVY since her eldest son joined the group in 2005. Throughout her professional and volunteer career, Diana has worked to create opportunities for dialogue and engagement. Whether working with new leaders of Central and Eastern Europe's developing democracies, with abused and neglected children in San Francisco, or with school children in the inner city, Diana has always sought to provide individuals and groups the tools for critical thinking and collaborative problem solving to enable them to become fully engaged and responsible for articulating, clarifying, and resolving their own conflicts.