Holly Stiel: Snap into It, from Ordinary Moments to Extraordinary Connections
Holly Stiel uses the tribal philosophy of Sowubona from the Zulu language meaning ‘We see you’ to emphasise a question she poses. She asks her TED audience, “while we are here, are you going to take advantage of the dozens of opportunities that you’re going to have to connect with each other? Or, are they […]
Kathleen Taylor: Rethinking the Bucket List
Kathleen Taylor is a Licensed Mental Health Counsellor with over 20 years of experience in the Non Profit Healthcare and Social Services sector. She works with people who are dying and those that love them, she thinks we ought to ‘Rethink the Bucket List’.
Fiona Wood: Repairing Burn Wounds through Skin Regeneration
Dr Fiona Wood’s journey has taken three decades, it has been one of treating burn injuries while bringing basic science to the bedside focusing on helping people whose lives have changed in an instant and ‘making sure the quality of the outcome is worth the pain of survival’. People who know her well, know that […]
Lemn Sissay: A Child of the State
Literature has long been fascinated with fostered, adopted and orphaned children, from Moses to Cinderella to Oliver Twist to Harry Potter. So why do many parentless children feel compelled to hide their pasts? Poet and playwright Lemn Sissay tells his own moving story.
Douglas Crabb: Reconstructing Trust
The theme of these talks was a ‘A Life Worth Living’ and former inmate Doug Crabb speaks about the struggle to regain trust in today’s society. Inside and outside ‘the walls’, speakers came with different perspectives on incarceration and reintegration.
