In this program, we watched and discussed a selected TEDtalk. A TEDtalk follows a unique format. Speakers at TED events have a maximum of 18 minutes to share their messages, which are delivered in highly polished, succinct speeches. A TEDtalk is delivered by people from all walks of life on a multitude of subjects. A great many of these talks are about the insights gained by ordinary people–insights gained through extraordinary experiences or based on their contemplation of the ordinary events of their lives. Either way, their insights are genuine—not based upon theory or dogma, but through experience.
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This Ted Talk is called “What is Love? A Journey Through the Heart”. The speaker was Mia Hansson.
Born to parents from two different continents, Mia grew up and worked in Europe, Africa, and South East Asia. Even while ‘helping’ her nuclear physicist father and geneticist mother at work, Mia had a hunch that there was more to life than science alone. Obsessed with finding the answer to the question of love she traveled through Tibet, studied jungle survival with Bruce Parry in Borneo, worked as a model in Paris, was a journalist in Bangkok, and was a human rights researcher in the Middle East, before going to live for a year at a Zen monastery. Finally, she found the answer – with unexpected results. Now a writer about ‘spiritual life in the real world’ and training to be a counselor, Mia’s work has been featured in the Guardian, the BBC, The Huffington Post, Time Out, and as Editor to the Buddhist Society. She has an MA in Comparative Literature, three postgraduate degrees, and a Millennium Award from Jon Snow.
This group was facilitated by Rev. Saina Fernandez.
