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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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FROM “Why Me?”
- TO “Why Not Me?”
- Choosing Love
- A Poets Hope
- When It Is For Humanity
Difficult
Sonali Singh founder and CEO of Ripple Effects Studios in Mumbai, India, reflected on what remains when people strip away their identities, professional labels, and external roles. She saw that beneath those labels lies a deeper sense of self and that Humility, Kindness and Love can emerge from that place. Singh praised the thousands of volunteers who helped organize the conference without seeking commercial gain. For Singh, the real test of HKL was not how people behaved in a room filled with warmth and in spiration, but how they responded during conflict and difficulty.
Sonali’s challenge to you: Could you contin-
Spoken-word poet Maxine
Meixner travelled from London, UK, to Canada for the conference. She shared three poems exploring self-worth, everyday kindness, love, and collective hope. The room fell silent as her words were felt deeply and moved the hearts of attendees.
Her first poem, Breathe, encour aged listeners to look at themselves with the same appreciation they often give to nature.
Her second poem explored the small moments of kindness found among strangers in everyday life.
Her final poem, I Hope You Make It, was presented as a wish for humanity.
ue choosing love when She reflected on people running for buses, strangers facing difcircumstances become ficult circumstances, and the difficult?
universal desire for people to be safe, loved and able to find a place that feels like home. Her message expanded from individual hope toward collective hope, including a desire for peace, equal rights, and a world where children do not have to experience suffering.
The morning concluded with an emotional presentation from Joe Fornasier, a member of Canada’s blind hockey team.
Fornasier described falling in love with hockey at the age of three. At age 10, however, he rapidly lost 96 percent of his vision because of Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy. Doctors told him he would see the world through shapes and shadows and would no longer be able to play hockey. He struggled with anger, grief, and the feeling of asking, “Why me?”
School became difficult be cause he could no longer read normally and he faced bullying from other students. He eventually developed a new dream of becoming a television and radio personality, only to have another student tell him that he could not be on television because he could not read a teleprompter. Once again, he believed the limitation.
His father then introduced him to blind hockey. Although For nasier initially rejected the idea because of his negative association with the word “blind,” his father insisted he try. On the ice, Fornasier discovered that he could play using his hearing rather than sight. He fell in love with hockey again.
He travelled throughout North America, won rookie of the year, and eventually decided that he wanted to become the youngest person to play for Canada’s national blind hockey team. His father’s response was simple: “Why not?” For the first time, instead of asking “why me? ”Fornasier thought “why not me?” At 16, Fornasier became the youngest player in history to make the Canadian National Blind Hockey Team. He later won a gold medal.
The experience also changed his understanding of the community. Sitting beside a blind lawyer and a blind engineer, he realized he had allowed other people’s expectations to become barriers to his potential.
He applied the “why not me” mindset to education, taking summer school courses, and receiving tutoring. Four years lat er, he graduated high school with a scholarship to Wilfrid Laurier University. He then returned to his media dream by creating his own content. Through TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, he shared hundreds of videos about his life as a blind athlete. Within three years, his social media platforms had gained more than 190,000 followers and generated more than 200 million views. What he thought was his weakness turned out to be his greatest strength.
Joe Fornasier’s question to you: Identify one thing you had previously thought you could not do and ask yourself a different question, why not me?