Transformative Education Conversation Series

Ashoka and Mindfulness in Education are delighted to invite you to a colorful conversation about a primordial question for humankind: What do we educate for?

Supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, this event will be the first in a series of conversations with invited guests that will help us look from different perspectives at how Portuguese Education can become a nourishing learning experience which triggers social transformation towards universal wellbeing.

This collective reflection exercise aims at leveraging the insights and experiences of everyone in the room to weave the fabric of an emerging future. We will have the generous presence of Thakur Powdyel, ex-minister of Education in Bhutan, who can tell us about the conceptualization and implementation of the Green School as a way to align the Education System to the new economic indicators that set the North Star for his country - the Gross National Happiness Index. The dialogue will be opened by Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins, ex-minister of Education in Portugal and currently Trustee at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and energized by Helena Marujo, head of UNESCO's Chair on Education for Global Peace Sustainability and lecturer of Positive Psychology at ISCSP-ULisboa.