How do you move forward after a disaster? What is the healthy response? The emotional aspects of traumatic events are often ignore--causing low productivity, disillusionment, and resentment within an organization. It is essential that we are prepared--physically and emotionally--for traumatic situations. This video gathers a group of leading experts in the field of trauma, who give practical suggestions for moving forward. This is invaluable information for those directly (or indirectly) affected by traumatic incidents in the workplace and beyond. This information is also critical in preparing for future physical or emotional trauma. Viewers will learn to: Understand the normal responses to all types of trauma; Take practical steps towards recovery; Support coworkers, employees, friends and family; Work together within organizations; Gain strength as individuals and communities.
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Linda's last trip documents the moving story of 64-year-old Linda Patchett who, with the support of her family, courageously attempts a groundbreaking, and legally tolerated, new therapy in order to come to terms with her terminal diagnosis. In 2020, palliative patients in Canada were granted legal access to psilocybin (aka "magic") mushrooms to treat end-of-life distress under the care of professional healthcare providers. After being diagnosed with an incurable cancer, Linda struggles to make peace with her mortality. She particularly struggles with significant changes to her once active body and lifestyle, and has trouble accepting the reality that her family will have to continue their lives without her. Having lived a challenging life with astonishing resilience, Linda is determined to make the most of her final months. Encouraged by her son, the first doctor in Ontario to treat a palliative patient with "magic" mushrooms, Linda takes a high dosage while under the care of her psychotherapists. This trip, and the events leading up to and following it, change the course of the end of her life. Linda's last trip allows viewers intimate access in the psyche of someone living with a terminal illness, and allows us to witness Linda's therapy and learn how this new treatment can help someone shift their perspectives on what it is to die. By allowing Linda to let go of fear, the treatment enables her to live her remaining days as fully as possible, even enabling her to travel. A heartfelt and experiential film, Linda's last trip offers the opportunity for emotional learning as its subject share her journey of how she came to facing death with dignity and resolution.
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Manufacturing chaos offers a survey on the recent rise of disinformation from a global perspective, looking at how changes in the way we receive information and connect with one another have influenced such events as Brexit, COVID-19, the 2016 election, Qanon, "deepfakes" and artificial intelligence, and more. Once a site of what many considered to be utopic potential, the primacy of social media platforms on the Internet has rapidly turned it into a ready vehicle for disinformation. The film examines how the convergence of rising inequality, our increasing reliance on the online world, combined with new tools for manipulation, has enabled the creation of parallel realities with dramatic social consequences. People living within the same community can now perceive the world in vastly different ways, depending on where they hang out online. The power to manipulate narratives and herd people toward falsehood raises the stakes so high that peace and cooperation are becoming increasingly fragile, the goal of disinformation. Manufacturing chaos reveals how similar ideas, words, and memes are being employed to draw people towards white-nationalism across the world as algorithms are primed to push conflict in order to increase screen time. The disinformation specialists featured in the documentary offer a historical perspective on the rise of such movements, how the increasing privatization of the commons has led to a resurgence of far-right ideologies, and stress the need for a unified global response.
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Viktor Frankl describes man's search for meaning as a form of height psychology--as opposed to the Freudian theory, which is described as depth psychology. Frankl describes meaning as a form of personalized valuing which each person needs in order to make life meaningful.
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an integration of Rogers, Perls and Ellis
Actualization therapy presents three approaches to psychotherapy, illustrating the work of doctors Rogers, Perls, and Ellis. Dr. Everett L. Shostrom analyzes each of the styles, contrasting the theories and describing each of their contributions. This film describes how Actualization therapy represents an attempt to integrate each of these approaches into a working unity.
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As the world moves further away from the onset of the Nuclear Age while nuclear sabre rattling reaches a pitch not seen since the cold war, it becomes clear the necessity for reminding the international community about the horrors wrought by nuclear weapons and to renew the push for global disarmament. The Nuclear Age began July 16, 1945 in southern New Mexico with the test explosion "Trinity." Three weeks later, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 200,000 humans. Since the beginning of the Nuclear Age, some of the very scientists who created the nuclear bomb have called for its abolition. In search of resolution sets out to tell that story in narrative form and includes the voices of those who are involved in this ongoing struggle. The documentary seeks to address the question: Why do these weapons still exist? As the third film of The Nuclear World Project, In search of resolution explores a continuing 78-year-old drama that is little understood and rarely reported on. Looking to the future, the film profiles individuals and organizations who are working towards ensuring that nuclear weapons are never again used in war. Among those profiled are a group of young people gathered to continue the mission of a nuclear-free world for the decades to come. As best summed up within the film, "If you don't have peace, than you cannot have disarmament. And the question is what do you put first, peace before disarmament or disarmament as a condition for peace." On January 3, 2022, the five original nuclear weapon states declared, "We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." Then merely a month later Russia invaded Ukraine and the threat of nuclear weapons were made explicit as they hadn't been in decades.
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the digital divide in America
Without a net : the digital divide in America focuses on the deep inequalities in America's education system that are keeping millions of students in digital darkness.
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