Mary Gordon: The Ultimate Human Trait
The Honourable Landon Pearson, Canadian Children’s Rights advocate and retired Senator says of Mary, “Mary Gordon introduces us to the wisdom of babies and shows us how they can teach us – and our children – what it is to be human. Over a lifetime, I have learned that the human capacities for empathy and respect must be fostered from earliest childhood to reduce violence in the world and build a truly civil society.”
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ABOUT Mary Gordon
“Mary Gordon is recognised internationally as an award-winning social entrepreneur, an educator, author, child advocate and parenting expert who has created programmes informed by the power of empathy.
In 1996, she founded ‘Roots of Empathy’, which now offers programmes in Canada, New Zealand, the United States, the Isle of Man, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Nine years later she created the ‘Seeds of Empathy’ programme.
Mary is also the founder of Canada’s first and largest school-based Parenting and Family Literacy Centres, which she initiated in 1981. They have become public policy in Ontario, with hundreds of schools involved. They have been used as a best practice model internationally. The Nelson Mandela Children’s Foundation brought Mary out to South Africa to share her parenting expertise.
She speaks and consults to governments, educational organisations, and public institutions. In September 2010, Mary was invited to speak about emotional literacy at the United Nations International Literacy Day Symposium in New York.
This marked the first time that emotional literacy was included in the celebration. She has also had three dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, during which he expressed his belief that programmes like Roots of Empathy will build world peace. Mary Gordon is strongly committed to making her programmes available to indigenous children around the world.”
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