2020

• Ashoka Japan – Youth Venture and Swarthmore College Innovation Centre. February 10, 2021. Hosted by Prof. Denise Crossan, formerly of Trinity College Dublin. “Empathy; Power to thrive in 21st century.”  This offers virtual three-day Exchange sessions. Mary Gordon will be the keynote speaker for this event.

• The University of Calgary has made pluralism a university-wide banner initiative. As part of this initiative, they are going to host a pluralism podcast/webinar series. Each podcast is 60 minutes and hosted by their Chancellor Deb Yedlin, who is a highly regarded former journalist.  December 1. “Mary Gordon, Canadian educator, social entrepreneur, child advocate & parenting expert and Dr. Diane Gereluk, Dean of the Werklund School of Education will discuss helping parents and teachers understand how we can nurture and teach empathy in a digital sphere, especially when more interactions (and during COVID, more education) is digital. How do we teach critical citizenship skills like caring for your neighbour when more and more of our and our kids’ interactions OCCUR in a fractious digital arena?“
• BC Nurses Union’s 2020 Human Rights and Equity Conference. “In the Wake: Pandemics and Public Health.” November 26. This conference brings members together for professional development and to learn about social justice issues that affect the nursing profession. The theme of this year’s conference centers on the many health, social and political issues that have arisen in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference will offer members an opportunity to engage in dialogue on these and other related issues and to reflect on how we can begin to shape our collective future as nurses, health care workers and union activists. Mary Gordon will  present with a discussion (live Q&A) to follow.
• Empathy & Deep Listening Session at Ashoka Changemaker Summit. November 19.  This is a session on deep listening & cognitive empathy and how it has affected the work of three individuals both personally and in their system level work. Mary Gordon was invited to join as a panelist on November 19th at 16.00 CET. The other panelists are Vuslat Dogan Sabancı, an Ashoka Support Member who recently established a global foundation to support initiatives using deep listening and Kinari Webb of Harmony for Health, fellow using deep listening to save rainforests in Indonesia
• The Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit. Late October. An online event hosted in in acknowledgement of the Dalai Lama’s 85th birthday this year. The “Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit” will be a six-day virtual summit in celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama by bringing together teachers and speakers all illuminating the themes of the Dalai Lama’s life and work, and is personally endorsed by His Holiness. Mary Gordon will be sharing footage of her dialogues with His Holiness and a story from a dinner that she had with the Dalai Lama after one of their dialogues.

• Embodiment Conference Online – October 14-25. Mary presents on October 22 at 9AM EST. Find her talk, Creating an Empathic and Emotionally Literate World, under Leadership and Business, and use this link to participate for free. theembodimentconference.org/#MaryGordon
• “Education for an Unknowable Future” – September 21, 9am – 6:30pm, New York University
• Ashoka Inspirational talks: “Empathy and Post COVID-19” – September 8, 1:30pm Zurich
• Preschool Neuroscience Summit 2020 (Online Summit) by MindBe Education Ltd.  August 31 – September 3. Keynote by Mary Gordon: “Cultivating Empathy in Children” This session will discuss why empathy is needed now more than ever in society and the pivotal role that Early Childhood Educators play in its cultivation.
• Why empathy is crucial in our post-covid world” by Firki, Teach for India. August 21, 2020, 6.00 to 7.00 pm. IST (8.30 to 9.30 am EST). Mary Gordon, Founder and President of Roots of Empathy, will describe the history, the scaling and the research on the Roots of Empathy program which is operational in 14 countries. Narrative, video and children’s art will be used to explain how this school-based initiative has captured the attention of neuroscientists around the world. Sara Lane, Director of Research, will give an overview of independent research conducted on the program from three continents.
• Collision Conference Panel: “Decode Empathy Education” Live Stream – June 24, 2020
• Law and Justice Podcast – “How to talk policy and influence people”: a Law and Justice interview with Mary Gordon – Cork, Ireland – June 17, 2020
• Third Space Thoughts to Policy Podcast – “Episode 30 – How Empathy Can Break Cycles of Violence with Ms. Mary Gordon, President and Founder of Roots of Empathy.” – Virginia, USA – June 16, 2020
• Ashoka Romania Online Panel – “Empathy to tackle the New Inequality” – May 18, 2020
• Empathy Museum Panel: “A Mile in My Shoes” Live Stream – Cologne, Germany – May 14, 2020
• ECEBC‘s (Early Childhood Educators of BC) 49th Annual Conference – Richmond, BC – CANCELLED
  May 1 – Mary Gordon delivers a keynote presentation
• Cambridge University Leadership Dinner – Cambridge, UK – CANCELLED
  April 16 – Mary Gordon will speak followed by college dinner
• 2020 Discovery Museum Speaker Series – Ottoson Middle School – Arlington, Massachusetts
  February 27 – Mary Gordon presented her talk “Childhood is the springtime of humanity”
• Leadership Committee for English Education in Québec (LCEEQ) conference – Montreal, QC
  February 11 – Mary Gordon presented a keynote titled “Teaching is Reaching” as well as a workshop and closing plenary
• Digital-Life-Design Conference – Munich, Germany
  January 18 – Mary Gordon joined a panel discussion at the (Invitation only) technology conference called “Is Human Touch at Risk in the Digital Age?”
• Responding to Canada’s Urgent Challenges – Toronto, ON
  January 15th – Mary Gordon was invited to join a panel of social entrepreneurs, moderated by Anna Maria Tremonti – Mars Discovery District

2019

• Time to Open the Future 9th Forum “Education to Save People” conference – Korean Teachers’ Credit Union – Seoul, Republic of Korea
  November 28th – Mary Gordon shares research on the success of her international bullying prevention program
• Samuel Center for Social Connectedness 2019 Global Symposium – Re-imagining Community in the 21st Century – Evergreen Brickworks – Toronto, ON
  October 27th-30th – Mary Gordon joins a panel discussion at 8:00 am on October 29th called: What do we value? Towards Human-Centered Policy Making
• Nurturing Empathy in Young Children – Parent & Professional Resource Centre, Lambton College
  October 24 – Mary Gordon speaks 6:30-8:30 at the Quality Inn, 751 Christina Street South, Sarnia, ON
• Nourishing the Roots of Empathy: Towards a Non-Violent Aotearoa/New Zealand – Art For Change Fundraising Exhibition – Auckland, New Zealand
  September 21 – an event in support of Roots of Empathy, Mary Gordon will be there
• Viewing the classroom climate through the lens of attachment-aware and trauma-informed teaching
  August 29 – Mary Gordon presents 10:30 am – 12:00 pm at Prairie Mountain School, 5305 Royal Ave, Eugene, Oregon
• Science of Human Connection – Project for the Advancement of our Common Humanity (PACH)
  June 19 – Mary, who contributed a chapter to the book by PACH called “The Crisis of Connection” – joins a panel discussion at the Carey Institute for Global Good – Rensselaerville, NY
• Spirit of Humanity Forum – Discovering Harmony in a World of Difference – Spiritual Resilience in Practice – Reykjavik, Iceland
  May 31 – Mary participates in a panel discussion “Harmony in Ourselves and in Our Communities”
• 2019 Roots of Empathy Symposium
  May 16 – 17 – Mary hosts the 8th annual Roots of Empathy Symposium at the Globe and Mail Centre – with thanks to our sponsor Nivea and our media sponsor The Globe and Mail – Toronto, Canada
• 2019 Spring Inspiration Breakfast
  Apr. 25 – Mary was the keynote speaker at the MetroWest Foundation’s Spring Inspiration Breakfast: a celebration of youth and family philanthropy – Wellesley, MA
• Inspiring Early Learning Conference
  April 13 – Mary was the keynote speaker on “Slowing down to connect” at Fleming College – Peterborough, ON
• Vanier Institute Families in Canada Conference
  March 28 – Mary joined a panel titled “Little Data Through a Family Lens” and discusses the ways in which we measure empathy and love and their impact on our understanding of families – Ottawa, ON
• What About the Children Conference 
  March 20 – Mary provided a keynote on infant mental health – London, UK
• Beyond Boundaries and Borders: Expanding Possibilities for the Future of Higher Education
  February 21-23 – San Diego, CA
• Educating with Empathy Conference, Learning & the Brain
  February 15-17 – San Francisco, CA
• Learnit – The World’s Event for Learning
  January 24-25 – London, UK