Episode 154: Social Emotion Learning for Happiness - Jay Levin

Jay leads a nonprofit advocacy campaign, EQuip Our Kids!, whose focus is raising the emotional intelligence of humanity, starting with children and youth. EQuip promotes getting what educators call Social-Emotional Learning curriculum into every pre-K to 12 school. Motivated by the reality that 90% of the public is unaware of the remarkable child, school, family, workplace and society outcomes of this learning, Jay argues it is actually the most likely social movement in the world to raise human consciousness on a mass level out of the paradigm of conflict, pain, inequity and misery – which is inevitable in the historic child development and human relationship training we have inherited.

Jay Levin has led six media companies and launched six nonprofits dedicated to social change. He is best known as the founder and former editor-in-chief and CEO of the multiple-award winning LA Weekly, which under his editorial, business and sales/marketing leadership became the largest circulation and most advertising-rich weekly newspaper in the country. Jay is also trained in depth psychology and has worked part-time with helping hundreds of individuals and groups in transforming their lives.