Dalai Lama Fellows Program 2026 for Emerging Changemakers – YOA

Deadline: November 12, 2025

Applications are open for the Dalai Lama Fellows Program 2026. The Dalai Lama Fellows (DLF) gives a one-12 months fellowship program for rising changemakers aiming to domesticate management practices rooted in consciousness, compassion, and integrity. The interdisciplinary and deeply contemplative program offers a curriculum, teaching, group studying, and extra types of help to assist Fellows apply what they’re studying within the fellowship to their necessary work on the planet.  

During the fellowship 12 months, every Fellow implements an authentic discipline mission addressing an area problem. With this system’s help, Fellows domesticate capacities of self-consciousness, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, listening and communication, techniques-considering, and rather more to assist their work make a genuinely optimistic influence on the communities they serve. Fellows’ studying can be supported by instruction in a spread of contemplative practices that foster a deeper connection to self, others, and ecosystems.

DLF integrates the native and world, serving to its Fellows perform necessary work of their native communities whereas connecting them to a world community of kindred spirits. Upon commencement, Fellows be a part of the neighborhood of LifeLong Fellows, with whom they join in mutually supportive methods whereas persevering with to advance their management journeys.

Eligibility

In order to meet the minimal necessities, by means of the application a candidate should exhibit: 

• Age necessities: 20-36 years outdated as of April 1, 2026
• Fluency in written and spoken English 
• Current engagement with or nicely-articulated plans for a social change mission and sustained engagement with the mission all through the fellowship 12 months (NOTE: as a result of issue of launching a social innovation mission from scratch, they offer desire to candidates who’ve ongoing initiatives, however every year they’ve chosen Fellows who’ve a concrete imaginative and prescient for a mission and plans to launch throughout the fellowship 12 months, given they’ve the enough experience, assets, and neighborhood connections on the time of making use of) 
• In-depth information of the neighborhood and the difficulty that the mission is in search of to deal with, ideally with at the least one 12 months of earlier expertise working with the neighborhood  
• Interest in studying and fascinating in contemplative practices all year long 
• Commitment to collaborating in all dimensions of this system, together with on-line studying platform, 1-on-1 teaching calls, group studying calls, and many others. (They estimate full participation within the fellowship requires about 12 hours monthly, not together with Fellows’ work on their initiatives) 
• Attendance on the Contemplative Leadership Assembly in May 2026 (DLF will cowl all prices for journey, lodging, and meals for the Assembly)

Application

The application for Dalai Lama Fellows consists of 5 major elements: 

• Applicant background and overview 
• Short essay questions 
• Video submission 
• Resume/CV 
• Letter of advice 

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For extra info, see FAQ and go to Dalai Lama Fellows Program.