Webinar: Nurturing Ideal Citizens in the State of Virtue: Using Wisdom Stories to Lay Foundations

Wednesday, April 20, 3:30pm EST

Ralph Singh's goal in this webinar is to share his collection of stories and how to use them in the classroom. The stories provide tools for teachers: tools to reach into the heart, where moral and spiritual transformations begin, and from there to lead students to the foundations of citizenship that our increasingly global world needs. he will use examples from his recent CD and print publication, Stories to Light Our Way.

About the Presenter

Ralph Singh consults to develop curricula and resources to bring an understanding of shared values into schools using the teachings and wisdom stories from the world’s spiritual traditions and cultures. His latest project, “Stories to Light our Way, Journey to the World of Good” is a professionally produced audio CD with stories from eleven different traditions. Stories has been praised by both educators and community groups as a way to foster a compassionate, engaged, pluralistic, civil society and achieve social cohesion.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RIm_uH_q9Q

For over 30 years, Ralph has focused on spirituality and values in education and in public life. He helped design and named the "Schools of Character" project for the Central N. Y. Education Consortium; and developed and taught "Exploring Spirituality" (Character Ed from the Inside Out) for upper school and adult education programs.

Ralph balanced his early life between developing educational programs for the Sikh community in the US, sharing the Sikh tradition with Western audiences, and his community projects focused on poverty, and social inequities. He has authored or edited five books, including his own stories at Baba Virsa Singh ji’s feet, A Path to Follow, A Life to Lead.

He is currently the Chair of the Wisdom Thinkers Network

See Ralph’s blog at www.exploringspirituality.org