Internationally recognized as a powerful innovation in education, Roots of Empathy has been shortlisted for HundrED’s Spotlight on Wellbeing in Schools.
The prestigious HundrED Spotlight, in partnership with the International Baccalaureate (IB), Oxford University, Research Schools International, Harvard University, and the Jacobs Foundation, will highlight impactful and scalable innovations that promote student wellbeing.
Being shortlisted for the Wellbeing Spotlight is incredibly significant, as research indicates a global decline in youth wellbeing, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and HundrED notes the lack of initiatives grounded in scientific evidence.
This is a huge opportunity for ROE to showcase our positive influence on the wellbeing and mental health of children.
Key Skills Developed in the Roots of Empathy Program/Programme that Lead to Wellbeing
Emotional Literacy and Self-Regulation:
- Guides children to understand and manage their own emotions and feel with others.
- Independent research proves ROE promotes empathy and reduces bullying thereby addressing mental health issues for bullies, victims, and bystanders.
- Due to ROE, children individually feel more emotionally and physically safe and collectively make a classroom that is softer, kinder, and more inclusive.
Resilience Building for All Children:
- Builds confidence and pro-social skills, leading to more positive relationships and friendships, helping children cope.
- Trauma-informed approach supports vulnerable children.
Inclusive and Integrated Approach:
- Embeds children’s school experience with a safe, risk-free atmosphere for emotional expression.
- Instructs children that babies have emotions and informs on infant safety and development, helping their future parenting and breaking intergenerational cycles of violence.
- Enhances teachers’ connection with students and volunteer parents’ understanding of the importance of their attunement to their baby and the baby’s attachment relationship to them.
- Builds bridges between the school and the community, and back again.
ROE is currently active in 11 countries focusing on elementary/primary school children through our experiential program/programme that also engages families and teachers.
We know that by fostering empathy and human connection, Roots of Empathy empowers children to discuss their feelings, relate to others, resolve conflicts, be less aggressive, self-regulate, and gain self-understanding. These skills are crucial for making friends, buffering stress, and predicting long-term wellbeing and better mental health.
The ROE program/programme puts relationships at the centre of what creates a civil society, whether that society is a small classroom, a country, or the globe. Learn more about Roots of Empathy and HundrED by visiting this page.