Wellbeing Summit Toolkits Wellbeing Summit Toolkits
Day 2 Summit Highlights Day 2 Summit Highlights
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Mission: Joy – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times Mission: Joy – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times
Philanthropy, Activism & Wellbeing, Featuring Shelly Tygielski Philanthropy, Activism & Wellbeing, Featuring Shelly Tygielski
Failure Files x The Wellbeing ProjectFailure Files x The Wellbeing Project
Failure is a part of life, especially for those working on complex issues for social change. Yet, very few people talk about failure, the deep impact it has on individuals as well as those around them, and the life lessons that come from failing.
To break this silence, The Wellbeing Project is partnering with India Development Review (IDR).
The partnership with IDR will bring forth stories at the intersection of failure and well-being through IDR’s Failure Files, a multimedia initiative that seeks to normalise conversations around failure in the pursuit of social change.
We invite you to tune into the Failure Files podcast, to hear the inspiring stories of people who have failed forward. Listen to social entrepreneurs, a Dalit rights activist, and an Olympic gold medallist tell us about their failures, how it impacted both individual and collective well-being, and what the road to recovery and resilience looks like.
EPISODE 1
Having a dream is not enough | Vishal Talreja, Suchetha Bhat
In Part I of this conversation with IDR, Dream a Dream’s co-founder Vishal Talreja and CEO Suchetha Bhat share the story of the organisation’s implosion, Vishal’s burnout, and how owning up to failure was the first step in figuring out the way to build back up.
EPISODE 2
The road to recovery | Suchetha Bhat, Vishal Talreja
In Part II of this conversation, Dream a Dream CEO Suchetha Bhat and co-founder Vishal Talreja talk about what it took to rebuild an organisation in crisis, and how that led to discovering a new kind of leadership—one that the world needs more of.
EPISODE 3
Preparing for a marathon, not a sprint | Thenmozhi Soundararajan
What does self-care mean for those who are fighting systems of oppression and discrimination that are set up against them? On this episode, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, founder and executive director of Equality Labs, a Dalit civil rights organisation, talks about how systems of oppression affect well-being, what healing looks like for individuals and communities, and why failure is an opportunity to build power.
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PSYCHE – Science Gallery Bengaluru PSYCHE – Science Gallery Bengaluru
Why do we think? Why do we dream? Why are we emotional beings? Is intelligence and the ability to think and feel restricted to humans?
Location: Bizkaia Aretoa – Sala Chillida
Dates: May 31 – 15:00-19:00
June 1 and 2 – 11:00-19:00
June 3 – 8:30-15:00
Researchers have grappled with the inner workings of the human mind – from mapping billions of neurons to trying to understand the intangible expressions of thought and consciousness. We have experimented on the human brain with drugs, hypnosis, genetic techniques and more. The mind plays its own tricks through optical illusions, déjà vu, delusions and hallucinations. Combined with the imagination and hormones these manifest in intriguing behaviours.
Neuroscientists, chemists, doctors, psychologists, philosophers, mathematicians, systems analysts – each take us a few steps closer to unravelling the enigma of the psyche. It is worth noting that much of laboratory research to understand the human mind, in fact, is carried out on other living beings who exhibit degrees of decision making, planning and emotion.
The mind is inextricably implicated in our perception of the world and our experience of it. Our actions, informed by this perception, continue to shape the world. Our thoughts and emotions likely create a sense of wellbeing or a lack of it, yet we do not fully understand the biological or psychological or social underpinnings of our intellectual being.
The future of the mind could be stranger than fiction – weaponizing of emotions, extra sensory perception, prediction of criminal behaviours or the wiping out of traumatic memories – nothing, it seems, is impossible. Even machines need not be exempt – as we continue to replicate the human mind in-silico – from thinking or experiencing emotions in a manner similar to humans.
ESPAÑOL
¿Por qué pensamos? ¿Por qué soñamos? ¿Por qué somos seres emocionales? ¿La inteligencia y la capacidad de pensar y sentir se limitan a los humanos?
Los investigadores se han enfrentado al funcionamiento interno de la mente humana, desde el mapeo de miles de millones de neuronas hasta el intento de comprender las expresiones intangibles del pensamiento y la conciencia. Se ha experimentado con el cerebro humano mediante fármacos, hipnosis, técnicas genéticas y mucho más. La mente juega sus propios trucos mediante ilusiones ópticas, déjà vu, delirios y alucinaciones. Combinadas con la imaginación y las hormonas, se manifiestan en comportamientos intrigantes.
Neurocientíficos, químicos, médicos, psicólogos, filósofos, matemáticos, analistas de sistemas… cada uno de ellos nos acerca un poco más a desentrañar el enigma de la psique. Cabe señalar que gran parte de la investigación de laboratorio para comprender la mente humana se lleva a cabo, de hecho, en otros seres vivos que muestran grados de toma de decisiones, planificación y emoción.
La mente está inextricablemente implicada en nuestra percepción del mundo y nuestra experiencia de él. Nuestras acciones, informadas por esta percepción, siguen dando forma al mundo. Nuestros pensamientos y emociones probablemente crean una sensación de bienestar o de falta de él, pero no comprendemos del todo los fundamentos biológicos, psicológicos o sociales de nuestro ser intelectual.
El futuro de la mente podría ser más extraño que la ficción: el armamento de las emociones, la percepción extrasensorial, la predicción de comportamientos delictivos o la eliminación de recuerdos traumáticos… parece que nada es imposible. Incluso las máquinas no tienen por qué estar exentas -mientras seguimos replicando la mente humana in-silico- de pensar o experimentar emociones de forma similar a los humanos.
TONE Installation – Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerTONE Installation – Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
“Toning” is a therapeutic practice where the natural vibrations of the human voice are thought to induce healing. I have found that using my voice in this way in the mornings, even for 5 minutes, allows me to feel calmer as I start my day. This experience gave us the idea to create a ‘healing’ exhibition space in which the audience is physically surrounded by a virtual choir creatively using their voices. Since starting it the artwork has been constantly changing. One person’s voice layered over another through time, as one singer responds to the recorded mix of tones and experimental melodies of the others.
Location: Deusto – Salón de Grados
Date: May 31st – June 3rd
Time: May 31st: 6pm – 9.30pm
June 1st, 2nd: 10am – 2.30 pm + 5pm – 7pm
June 3rd: 10am – 2.30 pm
As you enter the exhibition space, you may sit or stand and just listen to the mix of voices emanating from an array of 24 speakers or ‘sing’ along and improvise to the recordings live in the space. If you would like to participate even more by adding your own voice to the recording please let the attendant know and you will be directed to the microphones in the recording area. During the Wellbeing Summit our sound engineer will be working on-site to record the new voices which will then be added to this continually changing and expanding artwork.
ESPAÑOL
“Toning” es una práctica terapéutica donde las vibraciones naturales de la voz humana inducen la sanación. He descubierto que usando mi voz de esta manera en las mañanas, incluso por 5 minutos, me permite sentirme con más calma al comenzar el día. Esta experiencia nos da una idea de crear un espacio de exposición “curativo” en el que el público está rodeado físicamente por un coro virtual que utiliza sus voces de forma creativa. Desde que empezó, la obra de arte ha estado cambiando constantemente. La voz de una persona se superpone a la de la otra a lo largo del tiempo, mientras un cantante responde a la mezcla de tonos grabados y a las melodías experimentales de los demás.
Al entrar al espacio de la exposición, podrá sentarse o permanecer de pie y limitarse a escuchar la mezcla de voces que emana desde un conjunto de 24 altavoces o “cantar” e improvisar con las grabaciones en directo en el espacio. Si desea participar aún más añadiendo su propia voz a la grabación, hágaselo saber al asistente y se le dirigirá a los micrófonos de la zona de grabación. Durante el evento, nuestro ingeniero de sonido trabajará in situ para grabar las nuevas voces que se añadirán a esta obra de arte en continuo cambio y expansión.
