Date: November 16, 7:30am Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Cost: No cost - donation appreciated
The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement™ is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to create safer and more loving communities that offer enriching connection, resilience, and well-being to all through no cost, comprehensive, lifespan, next generation Character Social-Emotional Development programs (CSED) that are suited for all ages and stages of life. Our Choose Love Formula: COURAGE + GRATITUDE + FORGIVENESS + COMPASSION-IN-ACTION, is a guide for living with a Choose Love Mindset that nourishes and strengthens the body and mind and empowers all to thoughtfully respond with love in any situation.
Scarlett Lewis founded the nonprofit Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement after her six-year-old son’s murder in the Sandy Hook tragedy in 2012. She became part of the solution to the issues in society -- and that also caused the tragedy -- and is an advocate for our children’s health and well-being. She's the author of Nurturing Healing Love: A Mother’s Journey of Hope & Forgiveness, a memoir of her journey toward choosing love and forgiveness, From Sandy Hook to the World: How the Choose Love Movement Transforms Lives, an in-depth look at how Scarlett founded the Movement and its impact around the world today, Rose’s Foal, a children’s book, with photographs by Scarlett Lewis, that tells the poignant story of a beloved horse and her newborn foal, and her most recent illustrated children’s book, Choosing Love: A Pathway to Flourishing.
The Movement's Choose Love for Schools Program is a no-cost, comprehensive, lifespan, next generation, life skills and character development program, empowering educators and students to choose love, handle adversity, and manage their emotions. Choose Love programming is extended into homes, communities, athletics, and the workplace, and has been accessed in all 50 states, over 120 countries and by more than 11,500 schools positively impacting millions of individuals. Speaking across the US and internationally to diverse audiences, Scarlett urges everyone to become part of the solution, dedicating her life to helping children and adults around the world to thrive mentally, socially, and emotionally. She has also been instrumental in changing legislation to incorporate teaching life skills in schools. Scarlett was named a Forbes 50 over 50 Impact Honoree, one of 50 women leading the way with impact and changing their communities and the world in ways big and small through social entrepreneurship, law, advocacy and education. Scarlett was recently named to Bloomberg Businessweek's 2022 Bloomberg 50 and was a featured speaker at the 2022 New York Times Dealbook Summit alongside world leaders, CEO's and emerging leaders.
