Jane Goodall Now Teaching a Free Online Course on Developing Compassionate Leaders: Enroll and Start Today

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FYI: Start­ing today, you can enroll in Jane Goodal­l’s course on cul­ti­vat­ing com­pas­sion­ate lead­ers. Offered through the Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­orado-Boul­der, the free MOOC will help par­tic­i­pants “men­tor young peo­ple to lead change in their com­mu­ni­ties using com­mu­ni­ty map­ping, col­lab­o­rat­ing with stake­hold­ers, and design­ing prac­ti­cal solu­tions in the form of cam­paigns.” Although main­ly designed for “K‑12 for­mal and infor­mal edu­ca­tors in the Unit­ed States,” the course nonethe­less wel­comes any­one inter­est­ed in com­pas­sion and lead­er­ship. Find more infor­ma­tion about the class at this UC-Boul­der page.

Sep­a­rate­ly, Goodall has also recent­ly devel­oped a course on con­serv­ing the envi­ron­ment. It’s avail­able through Mas­ter­class. We have a few more details here.

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Relat­ed Con­tent:

Google Street View Lets You Walk in Jane Goodall’s Foot­steps and Vis­it the Chim­panzees of Tan­za­nia

Ani­mat­ed: The Inspi­ra­tional Sto­ry of Jane Goodall, and Why She Believes in Big­foot

The Dalai Lama on the Neu­ro­science of Com­pas­sion