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What’s wisdom got to do with me?! | A Conversation with Dr. John Vervaeke | PART 5
Faith and Madison, IB students at Ogden International School, Chicago, are joined by Dr John Vervaeke and IB Director General Olli-Pekka Heinonen for this wonderful conversation! They talk about the role of science, religion, education, and technology in helping young people to make sense of their own experience of meaningfulness and the cultivation of wisdom.
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Is Technology Contributing to a Better Humanity?
Priya Lakhani OBE is joined by Given from UWC Atlantic College, Wales, to discuss how technology, entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence might be a reason for hope in building toward a better humanity and what we can all do to play our part!
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Tackling Challenges, Leaving Legacies and Building Hope | Sara Mora
Sara Mora is an activist and digital storyteller + founder of Population MIC/The Internet Recycler. She is committed to education, language accessibility, the power of storytelling, and decentralizing narrative in mainstream media and migrant rights. She won a lawsuit against Trump opposing anti-immigration laws. A DACA recipient herself, she has dedicated her youth to strategizing ways to support her community. Founder of @PopulationMIC.
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What Hurts Your Heart & Moves You to Act? | Arifa Nasim
Arifa talks about her incredible journey from the Headteacher's office to the UN General Assembly as she was moved to act after reading Jasvinder Sanghera’s book, 'Daughters of Shame.' She has been campaigning against honor-based abuse in all of its forms since she was 14 years old.
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Hope Comes From Innovative Leaders, not Institutional Leaders | Harry Beard
Creating your own change - whether it's writing a song, creating a business or setting up a non-profit - is a vital force for positive and innovative change in society. Harry talks about what he's learned from doing this and about taking those initial first steps for pushing change!
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Know Your Season — Thriving in Mind, Body and Soul | J.P. Bimeni
The incredible soul singer, J.P. Bimeni performs and reflects on his own "great escape" from the civil war in Burundi to Atlantic College and into the world of professional music. How we understand ourselves and respond to what the world is asking of us is vital. In this beautiful conversation with Ayman, Alice, and other students at Atlantic College, J.P., reflects on the role of peace, poetry, power, and seasons of change.
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Young People, Mental Health, Skills for Life | Alejandro Adler and Olli-Pekka Heinonen
Maja and Sydney explore the challenges of the youth mental health crisis with Dr Alejandro Adler and Olli-Pekka Heinonen. There is a huge amount of resilience that young people already have but educators are also helping them to build more of these 'skills for life'. Hear how Alejandro's research with many global agencies has brought more insights to support educators in this vital work.
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Small Changes, Local Action and Sensemaking in Complexity | Beth Smith and Dave Snowden
Complexity experts Beth Smith and Dave Snowden talk with Aava and Bonne about how we can take the massive complex challenges that confront us all and see them through the everyday stories of people at the local level. Why is this important? Who's stories are currently getting told? Whose aren't? Who is interpreting the 'data'? Where is there coherence in the stories and what can we learn from them? With this kind of approach to 'sensemaking', perhaps we might be able to see a richer picture of reality and not resort to either/or choices!