Reinventing Education for Human Flourishing Ft. YooNa Kim w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy

In a special series devoted to empathy in education with leaders and fellows of Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL), watch this episode to learn how to foster human flourishing in a variety of academic and organizational contexts.YooNa Kim, Director of Well-being and Culture for citiesRISE—a global platform focused on transforming mental health policy and practice—reflects on how academic and workplace pressures shape mental health outcomes. She also describes the co-creation work she is doing in India, Kenya, South Africa, and Sweden.00:00 Preview00:53 Introduction 01:29 About YooNa Kim03:37 YooNa’s backstory09:37 How does academic pressure impact kids’ mental health?14:26 If YooNa could reinvent education, what would she do?17:18 About citiesRISE22:47 Classroom interventions for gratitude, kindness and hope across cultures28:04 The power of self-affirmations34:08 How is empathy defined within different cultural contexts?40:16 The difference between being nice and being kind43:13 What role does empathy play in education?48:50 YooNa Kim’s Purposeful Empathy storyCONNECT WITH ANITA✩ Email [email protected] ✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com✩ Buy a copy of Purposeful Empathy http://tiny.cc/PurposefulEmpathyCA✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak/✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast✩ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/anitanowak.bsky.socialCONNECT WITH YOONA✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoonakimcareer/SHOW NOTES✩ citiesRISEVideo edited by Green Horizon Studio