Last month, our M.Ed. and Humane Education Certificate Program students gathered at the Institute for Humane Education for their residency training – five days in which we all came together to learn in person in an otherwise distance-learning format. Twenty-three humane educators from all over the United States, and one from Germany, shared brilliant ideas, great wisdom, and heartfelt emotions about the challenges we face. During the week every student offered the group a fifteen minute presentation on some topic in humane education. All of our toolboxes are now full of new activities which we can use with a range of groups. (Visit our Humane Education Activities section, where these, and other activities, are/will be available for free download.)

One student, Charley Korns, introduced us to the concept of taglines by testing our tagline knowledge (a fun and enlightening activity in and of itself), and then led us into an activity in which we wrote our own taglines. Can “The Gist of You” (not to be confused with the equally compelling “gift of you”) be put into words that represent your vision, your mission, your self such that your personal tagline works as a guiding meme for your life? Try it! Then live it.

~ Zoe

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