I need you right now. Me for what. My big sister needed me.I was 17 and she was 20. You know, Katie told me she needed me when she had brain cancer. About a year into her diagnosis, my brother and I were headed out the door to get ice cream.When she asked to go, I said yes, but this wasn't my best day as a caregiver. I slipped and I was tired and showed on my face that I was reluctant to bring her. In that moment, uh, I was balancing supporting my terminally ill sister and my own youth mental health.You kno ...

Remember childhood. Back then, the world was full of creative possibilities. Sticks became swords, clouds turned into castles, and every blank page invited an adventure.Creativity is fundamental to who we are. Yet somewhere along the way, as we get older, we stop seeing the world with the same sense of wonder. But I know we can get it back.And it starts with something as simple as observation. I'm an abstract artist. My work invites people to pause, to engage, and to rediscover their own creativity.But long ...

[মিউজিক] আমাকে যে কয়জন আমরা কাজ করু কই টকশো কর যেভাবে মানুষ আমাকে চিনে তারা এভাবে আমাকে চিনে যে আমি স্থির থাকতে পারি না উকনেস এ শুরু করি তখন আমি ক্লাসরুমে এখনকার ইউনিভার্সিটিতে পারো ক্লাসরুমে আমি যখন থেকে টাকা দেয়া করে দাঁড়াইতাম টিচার বলতে দাঁড়াও বলো গতকাল শিখেছো সেটা বলো যখন আমি দাঁড়াতাম তখন সবাই হয়ে হাসা শুরু একটা প্রধান কারণ ছিল আমি একটা কথা গুছিয়ে বলতে পারতাম না ও মাই উনেস সে কিন্তু সেই কারণে সবাই হাসলে ব্যাপারটা এরকম ব্যাপারটা এইরকম সবাই হাসতো এই কারণে আমার কথার চাইতে বেশি আমার হাত মরতো আমার কাধ ...

[Music] Hi, I'm Amanda and I was that kid. high energy, creative, gritty, but most of all, I was labeled one thing on my report card. Amanda talks too much. This was not one report card. This was every report card from preschool until university. If there was an award for most likely to distract the entire class by enthusiastically explaining the assignment to the teacher, I would have taken home the gold every time. I wasn't the teacher's pet as much as I was the teacher's project. High performer, high vol ...

[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Hi friends.In 1984, a teacher made a promise to me that tech was going to change everything. Her name was Mrs. . Marian Mayfield Hill.She was a Portland jazz legend and my fifth grade home room teacher. And one day when I was around 10, she brought a computer into my life. She showed us an Apple 2.She brought it into our space. She told us we could create. This is the tool that's going to change everything.She said, "We're going to make things with this." And this fit ...

When I first arrived in Tashkin in last September, I carried three things with me. A suitcase of belongings, the weight of rejected university applications, and loneliness so heavy I could feel it pushing me down. In the elevator of American University of Technology, a staff member once turned to me and asked, "You study here? I haven't seen you before." Despite being weeks into the semester, I had become invisible, a ghost drifting between classrooms and an empty apartment.speaking to no one, known by no o ...

[Music] As a psychologist, I have the privilege of listening to people's deepest longings and wishes. And in the hours I've spent in the chair, I've noticed a distinct trend. This trend relates to something so fundamental, so basic, and crucial that I believe it's at the heart of everything we want in life. And if I was asked to give you a summary of what that is, it would be simply this. I want more connection in my life. Connection is at the heart of everything that we experience while we're living and it ...

Good morning. My name is Gin Chwan. I'm a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and professor at Duke University.I'd like to begin today by inviting you to take part in a small experiment. Please close your eyes. and pretend you're combing or brushing your hair. If you do not have any hair, you can simply rub or massage your head.Please continue to perform the same movement repetitively, but now with your eyes open, look around and observe how other people are doing it. What do you notice. Does everyone do it t ...

[Music] Hi. Hi everyone. And when I read this um theme, embrace the next, the thing that naturally came to my mind was embracing the next generation.And before I start my talk, I know there are lots of children over here. May I just know how many parents do we have. Oh, thank you.And um I want to raise the question today can we control our children's behavior but we are the parent we have to sometimes whenever I ask this question I do get such mixed response we can control uh but we still can't but one thin ...

This chair represents someone. Someone waiting, waiting to be seen, waiting to be heard, waiting to be loved. We walk past people like this every day.Sometimes, let's be honest, we are that person. The one on the outside looking, the one sitting at the edge of a conversation, scrolling on their phones aimlessly. We've been taught something about community.We're told, "Go out and find your people." Which people is there a website called find your people. com. There is no framework to find the right community ...