Tag: tedx
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Developing compassion and empathy as part of a Professional Ethics module
I’ve been spending some time this week working with our 4th year students in the Professional Ethics module. One of our biggest challenges is that our students (and most other students in healthcare programmes) see characteristics like compassion, empathy, courage, shame, and emotional response as something that they need to “have”, like a stethoscope or…
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TEDx Johanessburg (session 1) – Hennie Eksteen
Here are some interesting facts about earthworms: They have no immune system…or teeth The more rotten their food is, the better They are the most numerous animals on earth They lay cocoons every day or so Earthworms create, purify and sanitise soil OK, this is interesting but nothing I can’t get from Wikipedia. I’m in…
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TEDx Johanessburg (session 1) – Mark Anthony Zimmerman
“The universe is made of stories” Mark began by using the example of trisecting a banana with his finger to highlight the point that each of us possesses a hidden knowledge, although I wasn’t quite sure what the nature of that knowledge was, or how it related to the focus of the talk i.e. the…
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TEDx Johannesburg is over, so what now?
OK, so TEDx Johannesburg is over, now what? On the flight home I found myself thinking: “OK, that was great and I feel inspired. So what? What do I need to do to make the whole thing worthwhile? Because if I went and saw ordinary people doing extraordinary things and I do nothing as a…
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TEDx Johannesburg
I’ve been a longtime fan of the TED conferences and found out last night about the TEDx conference being held in Johannesburg in a few weeks time. The theme is “Uplifting communities“, which ties in nicely with the project proposal I submitted to FAIMER last month (see previous post). So I decided to apply as…