Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Teaching Hope: Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers.

"When you feel the pang of hunger in your stomach, that's reality. When you are shot at on your way to school, that's reality. When you have been a pallbearer at your friend's funeral, that's reality." Erin Gruwell (from the preface in Teaching Hope).

Discussion & Book Signing: Erin will be at the Barnes & Noble store in Costa Mesa, CA. on Dec 5th & 6th

Here's someone to be thankful for!

Erin Gruwell

Erin Gruwell has earned an award-winning reputation for her steadfast commitment to the future of education. Her impact as a change agent runs deep. In January 2007, Paramount Pictures released Freedom Writers, starring two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank as Erin. The film is based on The Freedom Writers Diary, the New York Times bestseller that chronicled Erin’s extraordinary journey with 150 high school students who had been written off by the education system.

I first met Erin at a Women in Leadership Summit in Boston, and had an opportunity to interview Erin at her foundation's headquartes in Long Beach, California, in 2006, while the feature film was being shot. That interview remains one of the most popular on Total Picture Radio, having been downloaded thousands of times.

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Stan, Walking - Fighting Parkinson's Disease With a New Approach.

"I denied it to myself. I took the medication, didn't tell anybody and then, of course, a couple of my partners said 'well there is something wrong; you're not as articulate as you usually are, you're not as quick, you're not on the game… so what's happening?' " — Stan Smith.

Stan Smith

Welcome to a special Big Picture Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Our guest today is a frequent contributor to this show; Stan Smith, National Director of Cross Generational Initiatives at Deloitte. However, our topic today is a departure from what we normally discuss here on Total Picture Radio, inspired by a video Stan posted to his Facebook Page, titled 'Stan Walking," With the following caption

"See the results of nearly 4 years of a type of interval training...I am now walking without a cane and heel to toe...this is remarkable as I have had Parkinson's Disease for about 11 years...while not a cure this training regimen appears to be really improving the quality of my life. ... some have asked if there is a "before" clip...unfortunately there isn't but suffice it to say that at the point I started this program (August '05) my becoming wheelchair-bound was imminent...thanks again for all your good wishes."

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Making Waves - Dr. Irving Dardik's Remarkable Concept for Maintaining Health.

Dr. Irving Dardik

"Here I present the elegant reality that is the natural universe. All existence is waves – only waves. This entirely new understanding of waves – what I call SuperWaves – is the single universality that generates the entire natural universe of motion, of order and of matter, space, and time. SuperWaves is not a theoretical model or mathematical law about nature; nor is it a hidden reality within nature; it is the simple reality that is nature." Dr. Irving Dardik

This podcast first aired the beginning of October. Bringing it back to the front page this weekend in recognition of the New York City Marathon. Check out the short clip regarding the first Marathon runner.

In Making Waves: Irving Dardik and his SuperWave Principal, author Roger Lewin writes; "Dardik's Big Idea has many dimensions. The health dimension is the one that's easiest to experience; it just seems right, intuitively... the health crisis that looms over Western civilization, in the surge of lifestyle diseases and modern medicine's sclerotic approach to them, requires a revolutionary new approach, and the SuperWave Principle may just be what is required..Our bodies, it seems, are suffused with an innate rhythm, pulsating unendingly in every cell. Rhythms, or waves, are what make nature alive. Rhythms are the nature of nature."

Welcome to Part One of a special two part Big Picture Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton reporting. Dr. Irving Dardik's radical notions about how all matter moves in interconnected waves has drawn deep skepticism from physicists, and his early attempts to put his theory into practice in the field of health care got him banned from practicing medicine in the 1990s. But now, after a decade's worth of rigorous research that seems to support Dardik's SuperWave theory, scientists at such esteemed institutions as MIT, Harvard, and Stanford Research International are signing on with Dardik's team to probe the possibilities.

Irving Dardik is Chief Visionary Officer and Co-Founder of LifeWaves International, and Energetics Technologies. He is joined in our podcast by the firm's CEO and Co-Founder, Alison Godfrey.