How to Build a Culture of Connection and Compassion

Scarlett Lewis will share the riveting story of how she lost her six-year-old son, Jesse, in the Sandy Hook tragedy and explain how the three words he left on their kitchen chalkboard, “Nurturing Healing Love” led her to create a worldwide movement that focuses on social and emotional learning and character education and is based on the Choose Love Formula (Courage + Gratitude + Forgiveness + Compassion-in-Action = Choosing Love). By learning and practicing the simple, but powerful Choose Love Formula, and understanding how choosing love over fear can empower and change a person’s thoughts, parents, educators, and children can choose love in every situation, circumstance, or interaction and work together to create a safer, more peaceful world.