High percentages of both teens and young adults these days are hyper-focused on their achievements and happiness while reporting little or no meaning and purpose in their lives and suffering high rates of loneliness and mental health challenges. The costs to society of this hyper-individualism are also high. How do we prepare teens and young adults to find rich meaning and purpose and to be responsible, caring citizens who advance the common good? This talk will take up these questions.
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Join the alumni YouTube livestream to hear from Senior Lecturer on Education Richard Weissbourd EdM '87. High percentages of both teens and young adults these days are hyper-focused on their achievements and happiness while reporting little or no meaning and purpose in their lives and suffering high rates of loneliness and mental health challenges. The costs to society of this hyper-individualism are also high. How do we prepare teens and young adults to find rich meaning and purpose and to be responsible, caring citizens who advance the common good? This talk will take up these questions.
This program is coordinated through the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL) and will be livestreamed to the alumni community in collaboration with the Harvard Alumni Association.