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Second Humane Education Seminar for Arab Educators in Israel: Expanding the Circle of Compassion
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CHAI/Hakol Chai's second "Expanding the Circle of Compassion" seminar for Arab teachers and principals took place on April 4th and 5th, 2013, in the north of Israel. The program's creator, Rae Sikora, led participating educators and those new to the program in activities to help them explore their own attitudes toward the concepts featured in the program.
The program has been so popular among teachers and students alike that Ministry of Education officials expanded it to include 60 schools, with a further expansion to all schools in the north of the country planned.
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Teachers shared with the audience the transformational effect the program had on them and their students, following the first seminar. One said a student of hers was afraid of cats because he imagined their large eyes staring at him with hatred, so he hanged them on the way to and from school. After being in the program for a while, this student admitted to her what he had been doing and told her he would never do it again.
Teachers spoke passionately about the suffering of animals they had witnessed and their longing to help bring about a more compassionate society and world. |
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