Talks

Living the Adventure Called Your Life - Jean Lloyd

 Jean Lloyd, Senior Consultant, shares her own personal journey to transformation and how you too, can discover and create what matters to you in your day to day life.

What if Pain was a Verb? - Alex Cahana

Alex Cahana, Veteran and Professor in Pain Medicine explains how pain is not something that you feel, but rather something that you do. He argues that when you 'pain well' you realize that not all pain relief is good and that not all pain is necessarily bad.

The Hidden Gift of your Problems - Jeffrey Van Dyk 

Jeffrey Van Dyk of The Expansion Lab challenges us to see how our greatest problems always lead us to our greatest gifts, and to step into those gifts as a way to increase our personal happiness and collectively shift our global economy.

The Failure Bow - Matt Smith

Seattle Improviser and Auctioneer Matt Smith shows how altering our physiological response to failure can lead to transparency, availability, flexibility and even happiness. 

The Four Responsible Entrepreneur Archetypes - Carol Sanford

Carol Sanford, Author and Business Consultant, shares how business icons like Steve Jobs and Oprah are using business to take on archetype roles to foster social change on a grand scale.

Simply Your Artistic Expression - Imani Sims 

Imani Sims, Seattle Performance Poet and Producer offers three easy steps to incorporate creativity into your daily life.  

How to Live the Law of Contribution - Thach Nguyen 

Thach Nguyen, Real Estate Agent, Developer, Author and Philanthropist, shares his formula for success using "The Gift"--4 simple ways to manifest the the Law of Contribution. 

10 Stories of Legalizing Sustainability - Alan Durning

Alan Durning, Author and Think-Tank Director, shares how common-sense, affordable, green solutions are currently illegal. Fortunately, everyday citizens are organizing to dismantle these outdated rules and liberate progress. Durning tells their tales.

Building a Compassionate Work Place - Shari Storm

Shari Storm, Author and Executive, encourages us how to use family, not war, to teach and discuss business. By using family as a metaphor, we can build more compassionate, nurturing and inclusive work environments.

Time Balance and Happiness - John de Graaf 

John de Graaf, Documentary Filmmaker, Author, and Activist, believes that a new economic paradigm based on sustainable happiness is necessary for human survival. 

How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet - Sarah van Gelder 

Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine Co-Founder and Executive Editor, shows how solutions-based "appreciative journalism" featuring local heroes and ecological innovation, powerful ideas and practical action can shift your world.

Tell me Somethin Good. Find Your Incredible - Choklate Moore 

Choklate Moore, International Performance Artist and Musician, goes behind the scenes of growing up sharing the inspiration for her hit song single "Find Your Incredible" with an unforgettable a cappella finish. 

Tell me Somethin Good. Find Your Incredible: Choklate Moore @ TEDxBellevue

Choklate Moore, International Performance Artist and Musician, goes behind the scenes of growing up sharing the inspiration for her hit song single "Find Your Incredible" with an unforgettable a cappella finish. 

From TED.com | Stephen Ritz: A Teacher Growing Green in the South Bronx

Too often we get inspired, start taking action, see how other people have done it way better and bigger, then get stopped. Our dream is never allowed to blossom.

In the final segment of TEDxBellevue, we featured TED Talk Stephen Ritz. "The biggest sixth grader you'll ever meet", he shares his story of taking his students who live in the ghetto to becoming social entrepreneurs, ever expanding the green movement.

 

From TED.com | Eve Ensler: Happiness in Body and Soul

Suffering can sometimes be our access to happiness.

TEDxBellevue's second segment theme was Pain, Problems and Failure. Our featured TED talk was "Eve Ensler's Happiness in Body and Soul". In the words of TED.com, Eve Ensler, creator of "The Vagina Monologues," shares how a discussion about menopause with her friends led to talking about all sorts of sexual acts onstage, waging a global campaign to end violence toward women and finding her own happiness. 

"Eve Ensler created the ground-breaking "Vagina Monologues," whose success propelled her to found V-Day -- a movement to end violence against women and girls everywhere."    --TED.com

From TED.com | Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness

Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life.

Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com; he travels the world to tell the story of sustainability, and tweets at @GHill. Full bio »

We’ve got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we’ve got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, ‘Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?’” (Graham Hill)