It’s difficult for me to see how societies around the globe are being torn apart. More than that, it is heartbreaking to see how families are being torn apart. It seems we have reached a dangerous place of not seeing things from different perspectives. A place where we can’t even understand and accept that other people have the right to have different views and opinions. This behaviour drives suffering. We are all losers in this game. Although we enjoy lovely living condition

If you only see the world from your own angle, you narrow down your world. You miss out on so much richness, on so many beautiful colours and great adventures. But being able to see things from different angles is much more than enjoying life and having more fun. Seeing and thinking about things through multiple perspectives is an important skill. It enables you to get a deeper understanding of events and people – all you need to do is step out of yourself and look from diffe

Imagine you are telling your child to stop playing electronic games and the response you get is – I know you are not being mean now. I know you have my best interests at heart. How wonderful it would be to have such discussions around the use of electronic games at home? As part of Glittering Minds school programme, 9-year-olds worked on this question – How Might We design a computer game for children, that both parents and children are happy about? As Design Thinkers, these

At Glittering Minds, it is important for us to measure the impact of our Human Centred Design for kids program on the students and teachers. On analysing the collected data, we see that the positive impact is vast. The students quickly develop many important life skills – problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, empathy and more. It is very rewarding to learn that the impact on the students continues well beyond their time in the classroom and impacti

In one of the Human Centred Design sessions we ran this week with a year 3 class, we talked about empathy. We started the discussion by asking – what is empathy? Some children didn’t know what it means. Some children said it has something to do with feelings. One of the children mentioned that the teacher once told them “Walk in someone else’s shoes”. This was a trigger to a whole new conversation as someone else respond to it by saying “But it can be difficult to do if the