Current
SPEAKERS SERIES
The Child Honouring Speakers’ Series attracts respected Canadian and international experts to Salt Spring Island to give presentations on topics resonant with the values and mission of the Centre. Leveraging existing relationships among the Centre’s leadership, the program will invite speakers in diverse fields including:
- Early childhood development
- Conscious parenting
- Social justice
- Sustainable living
CHILDREN’S ART EXHIBIT
This children’s educational program will invite children ages 7 – 14 to artfully express the vision and principles of Child Honouring. This will be done through art-making workshops and by online invitation and participation with parental supervision. Displaying the results in a variety of settings will show people the Child Honouring vision through the innocence, delight and honesty of children’s art.
COVENANT POSTERS
The Centre will design and make available posters that feature the Covenant for Honouring Children and its principles, in a number of languages. Posters will be made available to schools, hospitals, medical offices, public administration offices, and health centres. In this way, Covenant posters will communicate the core message of Child Honouring to many audiences in a variety of formats. Posters will also be available for sale to the public as a fundraising tool for the Centre.
CHILDREN & NONVIOLENCE INITIATIVE
The Centre’s Children and Nonviolence Initiative—supported by the Dalai Lama, and by Honorary Patron HRH prince El Hassan of Jordan—provides a focal point for faith leaders to express their commitment to honouring the dignity of children.
Alarmed by the prevalence of violence against children worldwide, we believe the times cry out for a new religious moment, in which the world’s religious and spiritual leaders stand as one in honour of the world’s young.
An outpouring of public support for respecting the personhood of children could spark a historic multi-faith decree upholding the sanctity of the child, and urging the elimination of physical, mental and emotional violence against children—something that could profoundly impact human behaviour for generations to come.
We invite all citizens to sign the Plea to Faith Leaders and send it to their community faith leader and to the leader of their religion or faith tradition. The Plea calls on faith leaders to sign a Proclamation in a show of unity.
