Paula Abood: Healing Through Storytelling
Paula Abood speaks about the importance of storytelling in developing confidence empathy and building communities. Paula is a Community Cultural Development (CCD) worker, Writer and Educator who has worked with culturally diverse communities for the past 25 years to build capacities in a range of settings.
Why Resilience
Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, explores how resiliency can empower even the most destitute and vulnerable communities. “When the World Bank was planning to invest $100 million dollars in upgrading the slums in Nairobi, these slum-dweller leaders were represented at the table.”
The Work of Soliya
In this talk, Lucas Welch introduces the work of Soliya and the need for educational exchanges between students from all over the world, especially amongst students from the United States and the Middle East. He talks about the potential and impact of student exchange programmes using a virtual platform.
Chris Loker: Creating Sustainable Finance
Chris Loker says we have Transaction and Savings Accounts, Retirement monies, Unit Trusts but how many of us question where that money goes? How many of us interrogate the institutions that are custodians of our money, find out what they invest in, what they’re propagating, what they are allowing to happen with our money.
Tim Noakes: Challenging Beliefs
Tim Noakes has been able to show that the science of hydration is utterly bogus. There is no science to it. It was dreamed up by marketers to sell product. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Sports Science Institute of SA, an author, respected academic and A1 rated scientist. His message? You can […]
