H.D. Lee on Using Education to Connect Students to a Higher Self, Finding Meaning & Purpose, & Building a New School | Evolve 074

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H.D. Lee is Founder of Nomadic School, which is dedicated to adolescents’ and young adults’ exploration of the beauty, truth, and goodness within in connection to Something larger than oneself. He is a seeker and practitioner of wholeness through living an authentic and inspired life. The life roles which bring him insight, healing and growth are son, father, friend, learner, artist, musician, writer, teacher, and coach. H.D. Lee runs a life coaching practice with a focus on self- actualization and Self-realization. In other words, his work often involves the questions of the discovery and fulfillment of one’s potential, as well as life meaning and purpose. His clients are young adults, adults, and couples who come from more than twenty different countries and cultural backgrounds. H.D. Lee serves in an advisory role for the social educational non-profit HundrED in Finland, and Xinzhai-Better (心斋-貝德幼兒全人教育中心) in China. Fluent and literate in Chinese, French, and English, H.D. has lived or worked in the US, Germany, France, England, Taiwan, China, and Belgium. Formerly an information technology and business consultant for many years, H.D. Lee also taught transpersonal & positive psychology to international students at Sofia University (USA). H.D. is currently launching a school .

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• What is the Self and how you can discover it
• How the economic system & industrial complex have effected education
• Why traditional education does not help learners wrestle with the fundamental question of life
• How to create a transdisciplinary school model for student discovery of the self
• How to help students find meaning and purpose through learning
• and much more...

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TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) - Introduction

(01:10) - How Dean's life culminated into education

(06:41) - Why start a new school

(11:52) - Dean's mission with Nomadic School

(12:38) - What is the Self & how do we discover it?

(16:32) - How the economic system & industrial complex have effected education

(21:44) - Why traditional education does not help learners wrestle with the fundamental question of life

(23:44) - How to create a transdisciplinary school model for student discovery of the self

(29:12) - A day in the life of a Nomadic School learner

(34:25) - Challenges of starting a school with a radical model

(39:29) - How to help students find meaning and purpose through learning

(47:56) - What is the meaning of life

(49:11) - Call to action

(51:02) - How to push the world to Evolve