Spring 2022
Friendship, Distraction, Hardiness: The Complexity of This Moment
ONLINE VIA ZOOM!
On Thursdays from 17th March to 19th May inspiring speakers help us look inwards to see what we can do to negotiate this complex world.
This series we are giving our audience more chance to tell their own stories and present their own views. Every second week, following the focus talk, we are instituting Roundtable Discussions on a topic which has arisen out of the previous week's topic.
Focus talk:
To set the issue a WomenExplore participant gives a short talk describing how the day's topic has intersected her life and affected her thinking.
Roundtable Discussion:
During the Roundtable Discussions audience members will have an opportunity to present their own stories and ideas.
For the five headline topics, on Mar 17, Mar 31, Apr 14, Apr 28 & May 12, the schedule of events will be:
11:30 am
Focus talk
12 noon
Main Lecture and questions
1:00 pm
Participatory discussion
1:30 pm
End of forum
For the remaining forums, on Mar 24, Apr 7, Apr 21, May 5 & May 19, the schedule of events will be:
11:30 am
Focus talk
12 noon
Roundtable Discussion
1:30 pm
End of forum
Location:
Online using Zoom!Go here to register.
Focus lecture: Amy Banks speaks from her personal experience
Friendship
Amy Banks
psychiatrist, neurobiologist, at International Center for Growth in Connection and the Wellesley Centers for Women, author of Wired for Connection: The Surprising Link Between Brain Science and Strong, Healthy Relationships and Four Ways to Click: Rewire Your Brain for Stronger, More Rewarding Relationships and co-author with Isaac Knapper of Fighting Time: Exploring the Social Impact of Wrongful Conviction
MAR
17
Focus lecture: Mary Ann Serra
Wrinkles in Friendship
Roundtable Discussion
Audience members present their own stories and own views.
MAR
24
Focus lecture: Dorianne Low
The Attraction of Distraction
Pam Kristan
teacher, consultant and author of Awakening In Time: Practical Time Management For Those On a Spiritual Path, and The Spirit of Getting Organized
MAR
31
Focus lecture: MaryMargaret Halsey
Finding Balance and Right Relationship
Roundtable Discussion
Audience members present their own stories and own views.
APR
7
Focus lecture: Marcia Boehlke
Hardiness: Women’s Health and Heart
Dee Foley
nurse practitioner specializing in adult health care, former director of nursing at North Shore Community College
and Carla Pepka
previously director of activities at an independent living community, & responsible for overseeing therapeutic activities for those in long term care
APR
14
Focus lecture: Lindsa Vallee
Spiritual Health: Rituals & Practice
Roundtable Discussion
Audience members present their own stories and own views.
APR
21
Focus lecture: Barbara Villandry
Driving the Climate Crisis:To Buy or Not to Buy, That is the Question
Lizabeth Cohen
in Harvard Dept of History, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, author of A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
APR
28
Focus lecture: Susan Nulsen
Becoming a Minimalist
Roundtable Discussion
Audience members present their own stories and own views.
MAY
5
Focus lecture: A WomenExplore participant
Becoming Emotionally and Spiritually Hardy
Janet Cooper Nelson
chaplain at Brown University, supervising a ministry serving a multi-faith, multi-ethnic community
MAY
12
Focus lecture: Paula Chandoha
Taking Action!
Roundtable Discussion
Audience members present their own stories and own views.
MAY
19
Fall 2021
Facing a World in Upheaval: Personal and Cultural Resilience
Focus lecture: Lindsa Vallee
Change: The Pleasure and Horror of It
Ross Ellenhorn
sociologist, social worker, psychotherapist, author of How We Change (and Ten Reasons Why We Don’t)
SEPT
16
Focus lecture: Martha Nielsen
Recreating the Performing Arts: Transcending the Pandemic
A small panel discussion with
Josh Short
Artistic Director, The Wilbury Theatre Group, Providence, RI
and with
Patrick Aiken
Organist and Choir Director, Central Congregational Church, Providence, RI
SEPT
23
Focus lecture: Susan Nulsen
The Battle for Our Digital Rights
Josephine Wolff
associate professor of cybersecurity policy at Tufts University School of Engineering and the Fletcher School
SEPT
30
Focus lecture: Paula Chandoha
Fighting Fake News: Teaching Critical Thinking
Erin McNeill
founder of "Media Literacy Now", blogger Marketing Media & Childhood, journalist, mother
OCT
7
Focus lecture: Virginia Loftus
Extending the Safety Net
Dinanyili Paulino
Chief Operating Officer of La Colaborativa which works on social change initiatives through coalition-building and community organizing
OCT
14
Focus lecture: Barbara Villandry
Corporate Money Making a Difference
Four experts
will address, on video, how corporate entities support their communities with special reference to the issues raised by covid
OCT
21
Bridging the Wealth Chasm
Jessica Bergeron
leader of Operation HOPE’s 1 Million Black Businesses initiative
Kristie Blevins
America’s Financial Wellbeing Program, from Hope Inside First Horizon Bank, Knoxville
Sue White
Financial Wellbeing Coach, from Hope Inside First Horizon Bank, Knoxville
OCT
28
Focus lecture: MaryMargaret Halsey
Farm to Table: Climate, Food Waste & Strategy
Emily Broad Leib
cofounder and director of Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic
NOV
4
Focus lecture: Mary Rose Muti
Reflections of a Street Doctor
Jim O'Connell
founding physician of Boston Health Care for the Homeless, author of Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor
NOV
11
Focus lecture: Dorianne Low
Interfaith Collaboration for the Common Good
Marcia Hams
representative to Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, and Board President of Health Care for All
NOV
18