Speaking Programs
Prevent Violence by Confronting Its Origins
We are one of the most violent developed countries in the world.
Every tragic American murder is a symptom of a larger problem.
What part of the problem lies with the environment and what part lies with the antisocial individual?
Are violent people born or made? Do events that occur before we can remember matter?
The surprising answers to these questions challenge us to question some of our assumptions about human behaviors and consider factors we tend to ignore.
- Understand why the cycle of violence keeps repeating and how to break the cycle.
- Learn surprising research about feeling, thinking, and behavior that apply to violence.
- Expand awareness of what is cultural and what is natural.
- Discover political action that can reduce the development of violent behavior.
Overlooked Beginnings of Racism
What makes some people racist?
Early adverse experiences can result in later racial attitudes.
Racism has similarities to some attitudes toward children.
Long ignored factors build a foundation for potential racism.
- Understand why racism continues generation after generation and how to break this pattern.
- Learn to include compassion when communicating about racism.
- Improve your effectiveness in preventing racism through awareness of potential political action.
- Be inspired by children who made a difference by responding to racism.
Unrecognized Roots of Political Corruption
Current political corruption has no precedent and includes firing federal leaders and inspectors responsible for stopping corruption, eliminating prosecution of corrupt government officials, ending ethics rules that prevented government employees from accepting gifts from lobbyists, selling personal presidential access, and much more. - Recognize what cultural beliefs, experiences, and values contribute to political conflict.
- Become motivated by ideas that can improve our satisfaction with political experience.
- Realize how to examine cultural assumptions about politics that do not serve us.
- Discover overlooked approaches to increase cooperation and reduce political conflict.
The Needless Source of Our Mental Illness Problems
We have an epidemic of mental illness problems in our country including alienation, loneliness, anxiety, suicide, anger, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, and others.
A common response to mental illness problems is to take a prescribed medication.
This “quick fix” treats symptoms but does not deal with the source of the problems.
Prevention of mental illness problems requires further investigation to uncover the potential sources of the problems and make appropriate changes.
- Help reduce the potential mental illness problems of your family, friends, and society.
- Question unreliable cultural assumptions.
- Increase your effectiveness by communicating what you learn about mental illness with others.
- Apply political efforts that can decrease the development of mental illness problems.
“When we do not feel, our thinking is affected.”