Compassionate Conversation: Vice Provost Ralina Joseph launches Racial Exhaustion with a multi-speaker panel and book signing

Dr. Ralina L. Joseph reads an excerpt from her latest book, Racial Exhaustion: How to Move through Racism in the Wake of DEI. Photo by Hannah Park.   On Tuesday, Dec. 2, the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute (BKI) hosted the book launch…

Compassionate Conversation: Clean Shelter founders visit UCLA to share humanitarian solutions in Gaza

  Seba Abudaqa (sixth from left) and Tom Kellner (fourth from right) with DaD staff and students.   By Hannah Park On Monday, Nov. 17, the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute (BKI) and Dialogue Across Difference (DaD) Initiative…

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Dialogue Across Difference Initiative Student Internship AY 2025-26

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UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute and ISH Host Adam Phillips for its Compassionate Conversation Series

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ISH hosts the California Commission on the State of Hate for Convening on Online and K-12 Hate Prevention Policy

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On October 31, scholars, policy makers, educators, and advocates from across California gathered in the Luskin Conference Center to develop innovative solutions for preventing and reducing hate online and in California schools. This convening…

Bedari Kindness Institute featured in Guibord Center series

On December 9th, BKI deputy director Maia Ferdman was featured in Take Heart Now: Spiritual Tools for Centering and Compassion, a series hosted by the Guibord Center, an interfaith organization promoting shared values including compassion,…