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• Of Talks: Terry, Ted and Tedx

  j_ling 8:18 pm on September 17, 2009 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: change (10), impact (3), inspiration (7), motivation (4), presentation (2), TED (2), ubc (2), Vancouver

  Before June 2006, very few have heard of Ted, much less Ted­Con­fer­ences, TedTalks and Ted­Fel­lows. That all changed when TED decided to release their Talks online, with this mission:

  

  “We believe pas­sion­ately in the power of ideas to change atti­tudes, lives and ulti­mately, the world. So we’re build­ing here a clear­ing house that offers free knowl­edge and inspi­ra­tion from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a com­mu­nity of curi­ous souls to engage with ideas and each other.” http://www.ted.com

  Start­ing out in 1984 as a con­fer­ence bring­ing experts from the world of Tech­nol­ogy, Enter­tain­ment and Design, it has since evolved into some­thing more. Ideas and con­cepts that res­onate. Shared. Spo­ken about. In the spirit of spread­ing ideas, TEDx has been cre­ated, enabling com­mu­ni­ties around the world to con­struct a TED-like con­fer­ence with sup­port from TED.

  Here at UBC, we have our very own TEDx Terry Project. The project launched last year and was received with tremen­dous suc­cess. This Octo­ber 3rd would be the 2nd Terry round of talks and reg­is­tra­tion is now open!

  “Imag­ine UBC’s most fas­ci­nat­ing and engag­ing stu­dents com­ing together for a day, giv­ing ‘the talk of their lives,’ shar­ing their ideas and dis­cussing their visions for UBC and the world. Now imag­ine being there, with stu­dents, alumni, fac­ulty, admin­is­tra­tion, and mem­bers of the gen­eral pub­lic watch­ing this unfold and par­tak­ing in the var­i­ous dis­cus­sions, and think of all the pos­si­bil­i­ties that this idea-share holds.” — http://www.terry.ubc.ca
  

  
  photo credit: abdal­lahh

  Reg­is­tra­tion is free and comes with a free lunch. It is cur­rently restricted to UBC stu­dents, staff and fac­ulty and some alumni. To reserve a ticket, click here, and to have a glimpse of what is in store for us, check out what hap­pened last year!

  I had the plea­sure of attend­ing Ter­ryTalks last year and it was a won­der­ful expe­ri­ence. UBC has some of the bright­est stu­dent minds in North Amer­ica and the ideas that were shared last year blew me away. I am def­i­nitely not miss­ing this year’s! Get your tick­ets now and see you there!

   

• Vancouver Peace Summit

  j_ling 6:00 am on July 4, 2009 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: change (10), inspiration (7), motivation (4), peace, Vancouver, women (3)

  Some­thing excit­ing is hap­pen­ing in Van­cou­ver on Sep­tem­ber 27th-29th 2009!!! Van­cou­ver is host­ing a Peace Sum­mit: Nobel Lau­re­ates in Dia­logue. The Peace Sum­mit will be hold­ing 5 ses­sions cen­tered around World Peace, Cre­ativ­ity, Well-being and Women & Peace-building.

  The main speak­ers of the event would be World Peace through Per­sonal Peace @ UBC Chan Cen­tre:

  

  1) The Dalai Lama “When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.”

  2) Desmond Tutu …is a South African cleric and activi­tist who won a Nobel Peace Prize in his fight against apartheid. He also won the Albert Schweitzer prize for Human­i­tar­i­an­ism and the Gandhi Peace Price. Desmond Tutu cam­paigns for human rights, the oppressed, AIDS, homo­pho­bia, poverty and racism. Tutu is widely regarded as “South Africa’s moral con­science” and has been described by Nel­son Man­dela, as ” the voice of the voice­less.”

  3)  Matthieu Ricard — http://www.matthieuricard.org/ …is a Bud­dhist monk, author and pho­tog­ra­pher in Nepal. Dubbed as “the hap­pi­est per­son in the world” by sci­en­tists, Ricard’s books mainly cen­ter around the mean­ing and ful­fill­ment of hap­pi­ness. He is also deeply engaged in the effect of mind train­ing of the brain at Prince­ton and Berke­ley. Ricard received the French National Order of Merit for his human­i­tar­ian work in the East.

  4)  Eck­hart Tolle … is a Canadian-German spir­i­tual teacher, author and moti­va­tional speaker. He is most famous for his book “The Power of Now”, which empha­sizes not being caught up in thoughts of the past and future and being aware of the present moment. It has been a NY Time best­beller, and listed as one of Oprah’s favourite book. Since, he has pub­lished “A New Earth” explor­ing the struc­ture of the human ego and how it acts to dis­tract peo­ple from their present experiences.

  Other notable speak­ers are:

  Co-Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize Mairead Maguire and Betty Williams for their work in Peace­ful res­o­lu­tions in North­ern Ire­land, Nobel Peace Prize Jody Williams for her work in ban­ning land­mines, Ken Robin­son (Cre­ativ­ity expert), Daniel Siegel, Kim Camp­bell and Ash­ley Judd.

  Tick­ets start at $100 for the main event and $60 for the others.

  The event can be viewed here. Tick­ets can be pur­chased here.

  See YOU there!

  Note: Bios of speak­ers and pic­tures are taken and para­phrased (bios) from Wikipedia