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The 2022 Dalai Lama Fellows programme is now open to 20 to 25 young social innovators from around the world.

The Dalai Lama Fellows, founded in 2010 with the inspiration and encouragement of the 14th Dalai Lama, are reinventing leadership by nurturing and supporting an international movement of young social innovators to address global challenges in locally relevant ways while promoting the flourishing of their planet.

They provide each Fellow with :

• Immerse yourself in the distinctive leadership online Head, Heart, Hands for one year
• Individual and small group coaching to support their personal development and leadership in social innovation work
• Participation in the Contemplative Leadership Assembly with Fellows from all over the world and dynamic teachers
• Lifetime membership of their global learning community and support system.

Areas of intervention

• They award one-year scholarships to innovators who work on social change projects in local communities to address one or more of the following areas:
  • Health and well-being,
  • Education and youth development,
  • Social justice,
  • Environment,
  • Cultural understanding,
  • Contemplation.
• The programme is non-sectarian and inclusive of all backgrounds.

Eligibility criteria

In order to meet the minimum requirements, through the applicationa candidate must demonstrate:

• Required age: 20-36 on 1 February 2022 (they have added a year of eligibility as they have not selected any scholarship holders in 2021; please do not ask about exceptions to the age range as this is a firm requirement)
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Current commitment or well-articulated plans for a social change project and sustained engagement with the project throughout the year of the Fellowship (NOTE: due to the difficulty of launching a social innovation project from scratch, they give preference to applicants who have projects in progress, but each year they have selected Fellows who have a concrete vision of a project and plan to launch it during the year of the Fellowship, as they have the right expertise, resources and community links at the time of application)
• In-depth knowledge of the community and the problem the project seeks to solve, preferably with at least one year's experience of working with the community
• Interest in learning and engaging in contemplative practices throughout the year
• Commitment to participate in all aspects of the programme (e-learning platform, individual coaching calls, group learning calls, etc.):
  • They estimate that full participation in the scholarship requires around 12 hours per month, not counting the work done by scholarship holders on their projects.
• Participation in the Contemplative Leadership Assembly at the end of July 2022 (DLF will cover all travel, accommodation and meal expenses for the Assembly)

For more information, visit Dalai Lama scholars .