Dalai Lama Fellows (DLF) 2023 for Social Entrepreneurs Leaders

The Dalai Lama Fellows (DLF) experience is an immersive, year-long commitment that mentors each Fellow through a leadership curriculum inspired by exemplary leaders like the Dalai Lama.  This curriculum will help you become more mindful, increase awareness of your inner values and how they relate to your work, deeply connect with people around you, and provide new ways of building sustainable solutions to complex problems.

We are inviting interested applicants to participate in an honest self-reflection process that offers an opportunity not only to apply to the program but also to reflect on personal values and goals.

• Be Authentic: As you reflect on and respond to these questions, remember not to tell us what you think we want to hear. Be authentic with yourself and share that authenticity with our team.
• Be Courageous: This application is an opportunity to reflect on how you can grow as a leader. Be courageously bold, imagine the kind of leader you can become, and tell us about it.
• Be Thoughtful: Take time to respond to each question. Save drafts. Share reflections with trusted friends and colleagues. The most successful applications are not only well written but demonstrate thoughtfulness and introspection.
• Save an Offline Copy: We recommend that you first reiew the entire application form and then spend time offline composing your responses in Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Be sure to save an offline copy in case of a technological error or broken connection.

• Table of Content
• About Dalai Lama Fellows (DLF)
• Dalai Lama Fellows
• Aim and Benefits of Dalai Lama Fellows
• Requirements for Dalai Lama Fellows Qualification
• Documents Required for Application
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Dalai Lama Fellows (DLF)

Dalai Lama Fellows (DLF) offers emerging social innovators a rigorous, interdisciplinary, and deeply contemplative program to reimagine leadership as involving self-awareness, personal sustainability, genuine compassion for others, and the capacity to skillfully navigate complex systems at multiple levels. Our Fellows learn practices for cultivating emotional intelligence, self-care, resilience, empathy, deep listening, and communication skills in order to foster systems for human and planetary flourishing for generations to come. Over the course of a year, with the support of mentors and coac... continue reading

Dalai Lama Fellows

Aim and Benefits of Dalai Lama Fellows

We provide each Project Fellow with:

• Immersion in our distinctive yearlong Head, Heart, Hands leadership curriculum;
• One-on-one coaching to support their projects in social change and personal development as contemplative and collaborative leaders;
• Participation in two week-long Global Assembliesy with Fellows from around the world and dynamic faculty; and
• LifeLong affiliation in our global learning community and support system.

Requirements for Dalai Lama Fellows Qualification

In order to fulfill the minimum requirements, a candidate must demonstrate the following through the application:

(1) Next generation leader who is between ages 20-35 years;

(2) Fluency in written and spoken English;

(3) Experience or interest in learning and practicing contemplative practices throughout the year;

(4) Description of project of social change/justice that can be undertaken over the year;

(5) In-depth knowledge of the community and the issue that the proposed project is seeking to work in and address, preferably with more than one year of previous experience working with the community in question;

(6) Commitment to participating in our online learning platform, which hosts our year-long curriculum;

Attendance at week-long Global Assembly in June 2020 and again in June 2021, participation in monthly coaching calls through video conference, participation in monthly group calls with other Fellows, completion of curriculum, and peer-to-peer interaction on the platform.

Documents Required for Application

The application for Dalai Lama Fellows consists of six major parts:

• Your Resume/CV
• Applicant Background and Overview
• One Letter of Recommendation
• Essay Questions
• Application Video

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit DLF website.