Compassionate Integrity Training

‘Compassionate Integrity Training’ is being jointly conducted by UNESCO MGIEP & Life University to KIIT & KISS Universities in 2019, as part of initiatives to bring concepts of compassionate living to higher education spaces in India. Compassionate Integrity Training was first developed under the auspices of the Centre for Compassion, Integrity and Secular Ethics (CCISE) at Life University. It is a multi-part training program that cultivates basic human values as skills for the purpose of increasing individual, social and environmental flourishing. By covering a range of skills from self-regulation and self- compassion to compassion for others and engagement with complex systems, CIT focuses on and builds towards compassionate integrity. This is a pilot programme, introduced by UNESCO MGIEP, Indian higher educational institutes for the first time, under the banner of their pan-India ‘Kindness Campaign. KIIT/KISS and O. P. Jindal University are the first Indian university partners of this revolutionary training. 

UNESCO MGIEP’s projects are designed to mainstream socio-emotional learning in education systems, innovate digital pedagogies and to put youth as global citizens at the centre of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development in order to achieve SDG 4.7. Thus, this partnership between MGIEP, Life University and KIIT/KISS is expected to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4.7 towards education for building peaceful and sustainable societies across the world by building capacities to comprehend the rising complexities through a deeper understanding of self, others, systems and interdependencies.