Mar 8, 2025

A New Course In 'Compassionate Leadership'

Coming this winter, a new travel abroad course will be offered at UPenn: Compassionate Leadership: “The Power of Love, Service and Inner Work”: Experiencing the Life of Mahatma Gandhi and other Compassion-based leaders.

Taught by two Gandhi 3.0 alumni, the course will invite students to explore the compassion-based legacies of leaders including Mahatma Gandhi, Grace Lee Boggs, Nipun Mehta, Tony Hsieh, and more. Students will analyze their teachings and practices while coming to understand the way 'inner work' profoundly shaped their external impacts. The course will venture out of the classroom and into the city of Philadelphia with several group activities and acts of service. Ultimately, students will travel to the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, the birthplace of the nonviolent freedom movement.

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