2023 TED Mind, Body, Spirit

Date(s) & Time of Course: Monday, October 30; November 6, 13 3:00-4:30PM
Manchester OLLI site
Based on TED Radio Hour Series <Part1,  Part2, Part3>

Part 1 program

• How do different thinkers interpret the world?

  • Related TED Bio: Temple Grandin

  • Related TED Talk: How I learned to communicate my inner life with Asperger's

  • Related TED Talk: The forgotten history of autism

  • Related TED Talk: How autism freed me to be myself *
    
    

• How meditation can teach us to love ourselves and others

  • Related TED Bio: Dan Harris  - ABC News Anchor (ret)

  • Related TED Talk: How to tap into your awareness — and why meditation is easier than you think    Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche  11 min

  • Related TED Talk: 3 questions to build resilience — and change the world   Sister True Dedication 16min

• What if a brain was given technology?

  • Related TED Bio: Tom Oxley   MD, Brain-computer interface

  • Related TED Talk: The life-changing power of assistive technologies

  • Related TED Talk: A look inside the brain in real time

  • Related TED Talk: How brain science will change computing
    
    

• The best spark of creativity? Letting go and simply observing

  • Related TED Bio: Sarah Kay  POET

  • Related TED Talk: If I should have a daughter...

  • Related TED Talk: How many lives can you live?

  • Related TED Talk: Embrace the remix

Part 2

• How to turn everyday moves (even typing!) into dance
  
  

• Related TED Bio: Ryan Heffington  7Min

• Related TED Talk: The Black history of twerking — and how it taught me self-love  Lizzo  14min

• Related TED Talk: In the Internet age, dance evolves ...Legion of Extraordinary Dancers 18min

• Related TED Talk: A choreographer's creative process in real time  

• One man's journey with vitiligo and how he found self-acceptance
  
  

• Related TED Bio: Lee Thomas

• Related TED Talk: The beauty of human skin in every color

• Related TED Talk: How I define beauty *

• Related TED Talk: What makes you special? *

• How an aerialist uses trapeze to teach students about consent
  
  

• Related TED Bio: Adie Delaney

• Related TED Talk: Sex education should start with consent

• Related TED Talk: How to build (and rebuild) trust

• For anyone struggling with daily chores: you're not lazy
  
  

• Related TED Bio: KC Davis (how to do the laudry when you are depressed) 13 Min

• Related TED Talk: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care)  Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski  18 min

• Related TED Talk: There is no shame in taking care of your mental health  Sangu Delle 9min

• Related TED Talk: Depression, the secret we share    Andrew Solomon  30min

Part 3  

(Jim Adds
  Kung Fu, Star Trek and the many paths to spirituality    Rainn Wilson   May 2023 29 min)
  How to revive your belief in democracy  Eric Liu 14:25 2019)

• Surprise! How embracing unpredictable moments can make us feel more alive

  1. • TED Bio: Tania Luna  <direct TED> 5min

• Related TED Talk: Happiness and its surprises Nancy Etcoff  14 min

• Related TED Talk: The trick to regaining your childlike wonder Zach King  8min

• Related TED Talk: My escape from North Korea   Hyeonseo Lee 12 min

• How paper and glue rekindled a sense of hope in a supermax prison
  
  

• • Related TED Bio: JR    17 min

  • Related TED Talk: My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out  JR  24 min

  • Related TED Talk: One year of turning the world inside out JR 6 Min

  • Related TED Talk: How photography connects us David Griffin  15min

• How we could live forever... virtually
  
  

• Related TED Bio: Artur Sychov ????  <direct TED>

• Related TED Talk: Life in Second Life * Philip Rosedale 30min

• Related TED Talk: A glimpse of the future through an augmented reality headset  Meron Gribetz  11 min

• Related TED Talk: How the Metaverse will change the world ??? Brian Jung