By: Audrey Raymonda John
The Dharma Tribe is a community of kind, positive, good-hearted, supportive, non-judgemental, curious, open-minded, and conscious people that provide a space to connect, share, learn, and grow together.
The Tribe works to constantly improve the lives of people all over the world by creating events and opportunities where students and young people can learn and grow as a community.
In a bid to extend its programs to schools, The Dharma Tribe is hosting its Represent School Conference on the theme: “Bold and Confidence: Nip it in the Bud before its Sprouts.”
The inaugural Represent School Conference will focus on Sexual Education, Character Building, and Establishing Boundaries.
The conference will provide teachers, students, leaders, and change-makers with a better understanding of the above areas, prepare practical strategies for the classroom, and build support structures that give students, teachers, and young leaders the best chance to succeed.
The Represent School conference will provide in-person training and opportunities for 450 students as part of the Tribe’s effort to empower students and young people by providing them with the ability and knowledge needed to direct their own lives.
The Chancellor of the Dharma Tribe believes that education should not only be the passing of information but insisted that education must also develop Character, Boundaries, and Sexual Education.
He further stated that many students are entering the school system without the basic values that have built our country __ Sierra Leone. “Depressing reports of students’ cheating in exams, lack of self-discipline, no effective boundaries, and a lackluster approach to school work are common,” he added.
The Represent school conference will also explore how crucial a mindset shift from a person’s personality to a person’s character will shape our schools’ culture. He emphasized that the Dharma Tribe wants to use the Represent School Conference to introduce Boundaries, Character development, Sexual education, and personal integrity to students, teachers, and young people.
Students’ representatives from 12 schools in the peninsula, state actors, community heads, and youth leaders from various organizations will converge at the prestigious Hill Valley School Auditorium in Mambo Village, Peninsula on the 3rd of March, 2023 at 3 pm to grace this auspicious event.