Dalai Lama Fellow

Awards & honours
Written By Nora Wilhelm

“Dalai Lama Fellows cultivates and supports an international movement of young social innovators to meet global challenges in locally adapted ways as they promote our planet’s flourishing.” Read more here.

I am incredibly grateful and honoured to have been selected as a Dalai Lama Fellow as part of the 2023 Cohort.

In July, I had a incredible time at the Contemplative Leadership Assembly of the Dalai Lama Fellowship (@dlfellows). The most amazing people, insightful conversations, nourishing spaces, expansive creative processes, and so much more.

It will take time to fully integrate this experience and its many teachings. For now I can only say how grateful I am, and that it truly showed me what is possible show up with self-awareness, care, curiosity, and genuinely celebrate each other. Thank you thank you thank you!

Nora Wilhelm

Nora Wilhelm is a social innovator, entrepreneur and researcher dedicated to a world where people and planet can thrive. A changemaker since her teens, she has a background in youth engagement and active citizenship. She presided the European Youth Parliament Switzerland from 2014-2016 and organised an International Session of the EYP in Laax (GR), under the Patronage of then Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter. In 2017, she co-founded collaboratio helvetica, an initiative that catalyses systemic change towards the Agenda 2030 in Switzerland by cultivating a cross-sectoral innovation ecosystem, building the needed capacity, open knowledge sharing, and empowering systems change leaders. She was amongst others recognised for her outstanding contribution by Forbes (30 under 30), UNEP, UNESCO and the Swiss government, and spoke at events such as the Conference of Swiss Development Cooperation, the Swiss Conference of city mayors, TEDx and on global stages next to high level changemakers such as Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. She holds a BA in International Affairs from the University of St. Gallen and a MSt in Social Innovation from the University of Cambridge. In 2023, she co-founded the well • change atelier to make art-based processes and tools to cultivate connection, creativity, and well-being available to more people.

https://www.norawilhelm.org
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