Tony Bury:

  • Thich Nhat Hanh on Compassionate Listening

 

 

  • Dean James Ryan's 5 Essential Questions in Life

 

Lad Burgin:

  • Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness.

What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone - but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction.

Margaret Downs:

Steffen Landauer

Ricardo Levy

Jesper Madsen

Becky Mayer

Bruce McDermott

Jackie Merrill

  • Megan Phelps-Roper: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left

After writing recently about how social media was creating bubbles of citizens, I find another way of viewing the twitter phenomenon in a TED talk. It seems that if the right people are using twitter in the proper way good results can flow. The young woman giving the talk sets forth the right conditions starting with the big one: intent.  John O'Neil