Скачать или смотреть Panel 1:Dr Linus Lancaster-Hopeful Monsters, Fostering Empathy and Compassion Through Arts Education

The 8th International Symposium on Humanistic Buddhism
Find out more about the Symposium here: http://hbsymposium.fgsihb.org/

Event Date:
Saturday 6th – Monday 8th November 2021

The 8th International Symposium, held online at Nan Tien Institute (NTI) in Australia, is the first International Symposium on Humanistic Buddhism held outside of Taiwan, since its inception.

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Speaker: Dr Linus Lancaster
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Linus Lancaster is an artist and educator who teaches drawing and sculpture in Northern California. His M.A. in art practice and philosophy from Sonoma State and PhD in art practice and soil ecology from Plymouth University (UK) were done in collaboration with his students at Healdsburg High School. He has also taught as an adjunct professor of English for the Prison University Project at San Quentin. His current projects are focused on transdisciplinary approaches to soil studies, liminal communications, amature radio, and performative interventions in ecological contexts.

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Hopeful Monsters, Fostering Empathy and Compassion Through Arts Education
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Co-author: Asherah Weiss
Hopeful Monsters is a collaborative project by art students in the Healdsburg School District in Northern California. Through processes of self-reflection, we have designed and built soft sculptures that anthropomorphize character traits, personal issues, or external stressors that we see as being problematic. It takes on the questions of whether or not we can teach or facilitate increased empathy and compassion as part of education. By personifying our monsters (dragging our personal demons into the light of day) we have the opportunity to see them in a new light; gain a better understanding of them, and perhaps make peace with them in some way. Raising our level of compassion for others often starts with self-reflection, if pain, anger, and hardship act as blockages to being able to empathize with the struggles that others are going through. Once the pain beneath anger is understood it sheds light on negative behaviors in others with whom we may be in conflict. It doesn’t necessarily excuse those behaviors, but being able to unpack them is a first step in getting them addressed. So can this sculptural project in the context of art education make a difference?

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