This just in from Neal A. Lester, Director of Project Humanities and Founding Director of Project Humanities!!! Contact info is below to bring this project to your community!
Arizona State University’s award-winning Project Humanities initiative has received endorsements from several respectable people, both nationally and locally. Beginning with the commendation from the Dalai Lama last October for its Humanity 101 effort, the endorsements have come from individuals far and wide in support of this progressive social movement.
Project Humanities’ Humanity 101 Movement is a declaration of seven principles believed to represent humanity at its best: compassion, empathy, forgiveness, integrity, kindness, respect, and self-reflection. The Project has for the past semesters created myriad activities and diverse programming that center these principles—workshops, lectures, film screenings, symposia, challenges, contests, and two multidisciplinary ASU and community hackathons for the social good.
Arizona State University is proud to be home to Project Humanities and the Humanity 101 initiative, designed to ultimately become a worldwide Movement encouraging humanity to operate at its best. Humanity 101 provides a critically needed and sustained collective consciousness around key principles such as self-reflection and compassion. These principles—the “how” we live life and communicate with others—are often the difference between peace and conflict, progress and exploitation, and hope and despair. This Movement’s time is now.”
“Our Humanity 101 effort is generating such important support. Having enthusiastic endorsements of this effort from individuals across the country and from different walks of life means that what we are doing is resonating on a fundamental level. If this effort is to be the Movement we imagine it to be, from these endorsements will come ripples of commitment from individuals and communities to be better and to do better,” said Project Humanities founding director, Dr. Neal A. Lester.
While being better and doing better may take time and practice of upholding these principles, the first step is to take the Humanity 101 pledge, an individual promise to “advocate for an even better tomorrow by declaring these key principles, which we believe represent humanity at its best.” Some 170 people to date have taken the pledge as well as over 50 Friends of Project Humanities who have joined their community by investing in their initiative and Movement.
For more information about Project Humanities of the Humanity 101 Movement, please visit humanities.asu.edu or call 480-727-7030.
