Overview
Syllabus
Bill Blakemore's Introduction
Participant Introductions
How do we define human resilience?
The news is just a reminder of traumatic events.
We should feel bad after something awful happens.
Does our spices have a predisposition to be resilient?
Rosa Montesinos's story of resilience.
What happens to your body when you experience a traumatic event?
The capacity of the brain is largely untapped.
Will there ever be a pill that makes you more resilient?
What is a genetic optimist?
Sondra Singer Beaulieu's story of resilience.
Can we think of resilience as a timeline?
The intervention style of debriefing.
The shock of war and it effects on PTSD.
Jerry White's story of resilience.
What are the character traits that make up resilience?
Are some post disaster community's more resilient that others?
Ndeye Ndiage's story of resilience.
The use of meditation to relive the stress of traumatic events.
Can government leaders do anything about human resilience?
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World Science Festival