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- Vol. 1 Issue: 13 August 17, 2026©2026 THE HKL TIME ANAN UNFORGETTABLEUNFORGETTABLE DAYDAY
- Page 2strength from the land long before today’s cities and communities were established. Chief Sault connected the conference’s three central values with Indigenous teachings, noting that Humility, Kindness, and Love carry profound meaning in how people treat one another, build communities, and respond to challenges.
- Mississauga Welcomes the Global GatheringThe conference then welcomed municipal leaders, beginning with Mayor Carolyn Parrish of Mississauga. tures and backgrounds together while maintaining a strong sense of community.
- The Journey Begins WithinMoving into a deep contemplation, Baba Ji expressed sadness over the gap between humanity’s divine potential and the way people often live. This feeling was shared in a sweet heart-aching poem for the world: One of the central messages of the 7th International HKL Conference came from Baba Ji, who travelled from India to address participants on the nature of Humility, Kindness, and Love.
- Global HKL WalksThe HKL Walks share an expression of that vision of oneness. The walks bring people together, one step at a time. The most recent HKL Walks were held around the world in early August 2026 in 24 cities, 11 different countries, across 5 continents in: Vancouver, CanadaVancouver, Canada Surrey, CanadaSurrey, Canada Abbotsford, CanadaAbbotsford, Canada Edmonton, CanadaEdmonton, Canada Calgary, CanadaCalgary, Canada Winnipeg, CanadaWinnipeg, Canada Toronto, CanadaToronto, Canada Kingston, CanadaKingston, Canada Fresno, USAFresno, USA Michigan, USAMichigan, USA Indiana, USAIndiana, USA Mississippi, USAMississippi, USA New York, USANew York, USA Bolivia, South AmericaBolivia, South America Birmingham, United KingdomBirmingham, United Kingdom Cornwall, United KingdomCornwall, United Kingdom GermanyGermany FranceFrance ItalyItaly Jammu, IndiaJammu, India Jalandhar, IndiaJalandhar, India MalaysiaMalaysia AustraliaAustralia New ZealandNew Zealand
- The Coach Who BelievedParalympic Champion Credits Success to Kindness, Love, and Canadian Olympic and world Humility champion sprinter
- FROM “Why Me?”TO “Why Not Me?” Choosing Love
- Page 8Panel Discussion: Living and Sharing Humility, Kindness & Love in Everyday Life Dr. Nicole Redvers Hosting The First Panel Discussion
- practice you would recommend practice of breath. We haveKindness, and Love are a natuto someone who wants to bea choice, and every day we ral state of being. come more peaceful, compasshould choose love, kindness, sionate, and loving?
- Page 10From Global Health to Education, HKL Speakers Call for a More Human Future “If You Want to Go Far, Go Together”
- Leadership Under PressureDr. Lobna Chérif, chair in resilience and professor at the Royal Military College of Canpositive psychology, Chérif described HKL as character strengths that can be developed. ada in Kingston, Ontario, followed with a discussion of char- The Real Test acter, resilience, and leadership.
- An Important Message From Baba JiBaba Ji returned to the stage for the final words of The 7th International HKL
- Page 13are really kindness, you are really love. Everybody would love you. Baba Ji said this is the future of humility, and it is bright. We must create it for future generations through inner growth, which is vertical. He encouraged returning to the heart many times a day, by bringing your consciousness to the present which is the line of the pubic bone through the naval point, heart, throat, on this line, staying centered in awareness. He expressed love and pride for all those attending, calling Canada beautiful and close to his heart.
- Panel Discussion: Cultivating a Beautiful Garden of HKLThrough EducationDiana Lockett Hosting The Second Panel Discussion (Far Left) Q: How do you see universities cultivating or failing to cultivate Humility, Kindness, and Love?
- Page 15that truly transformed students or communities? Dr. Nicole Arbour: The most powerful moments are when everyone understands that they are there for the same reason and trying to do something good together. It does not happen every time, and there is a lot of grey between black and white, but those experiences help us build the ability to communicate more effectively. When it works, it is like magic.
- DAILY HKL AFFIRMATION“WE ARE HUMILITY, WE ARE KINDNESS, WE ARE LOVE” True transformation doesn’t come from words, it comes from practice of turning inward and connecting with yourself. Commit to this practice for 7 days and feel the shift.
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The Coach Who Believed
Paralympic Champion Credits Success to Kindness, Love, and Canadian Olympic and world
Humility champion sprinter
Jerome Blake, who immigrated from Jamaica to Canada in 2013, The conference next recogspoke about kindness through nized Canadian athlete Austin the story of his first coach, Pat
Smeenk, a world-record holder
Sima-Ledding. He explained and Paralympic champion from that she believed in his potential
Oakville, Ontario.
before he believed in himself.
At 17, he had never competed internationally and had never run outside Kelowna. Yet, Pat sat him down for nearly two hours and told him she believed he could reach the Olympics and win a medal.
Blake initially thought the prediction made no sense but Pat continued to support him. She paid for track meets, purchased equipment, travelled to competitions and even attended the Olympics and World Championships to watch him compete. Blake described her as almost a second mother.
He recalled training through rain, snow and cold, sometimes shovelling the track simply to create a place to practice. Her belief taught him that there is often someone who shows up when a person needs them most. His message was simple: believe in yourself, trust the process, and never forget the people who helped you get where you are.
Smeenk, who has paraplegia, had participated in sledge hockey and wheelchair basketball before discovering racing. His background in electromechanical engineering helped him redesign and improve his racing equipment. At the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, he competed in a racing chair that he had helped make lighter, and he subsequently broke the 400-metre world record three times in one week.
Smeenk emphasized that although racing is an individual sport, his success was never an individual effort. He credited kindness, love and humility, along with the support of coaches, parents and loved ones.
A Mother’s Perseverance, A Life’s Lesson
The Lens In Which We Experience Life
Mo Ghoneim, president of Naveena opened with heart-
Billboard UK and Canada and felt gratitude to The HKL Globfounder and president of Art al Movement for restoring three
House Media Group, spoke of the most important pillars to about the influence of Sonali humankind.
Singh and the personal experience that brought him to HKL.
She followed with a story about a father travelling on a New
Ghoneim shared the impact of York subway with four unruly meeting someone who embodchildren. An observer became ies HKL; for him that is Sonaincreasingly angry and judged li Singh. He described seeing the father for failing to control
Singh welcome people, open his children. Eventually, the doors, give hugs, and take time observer confronted him. The to hear people’s stories. For father explained that the family
Ghoneim, those actions demonhad just come from the hospital strated what it means to lead because the children’s mother from the heart.
had died. The man’s behaviour had not changed. The children
He then shared the story of his had not changed. What changed mother, who immigrated to was the observer’s understand-
Canada with her five children ing. She said that very act can while his father remained bechange the world, just like this hind. His mother had grown movement has.
up with significant support, in cluding private schooling and Naveena’s message to household assistance, yet she you: Please let us all left that life behind and rebuilt remember to be kind herself in Canada. She learned to drive, returned to school, in- because we never know terned while raising five chil what invisible burden dren, and eventually completed her master’s degree. Witnessing someone is carrying.
his mother’s perseverance became his introduction to Humility, Kindness and Love. He said HKL is inherited but the task is applying it during challenging times.