Video stuff for TED application tomorrow

[sabrinamari]

Video excerpts from my December 1st talk explaining cultural capital, social capital, habitus and embodied cultural capital, giving concrete examples of each (10 minutes per video):

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhaTrl-ib9Q
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cNO_Hrf958

Comments

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

Does Shannon know she's famous? >:-)

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

No.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

If I know you and love you, you could show up in a talk at any time. It's a risk that comes with being loved by me.

[showingup.livejournal.com]

*PANIC*

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

You've showed up in more than one talk.

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

Okay, part 2 cuts off in the middle of a sentence! Where's part 3? I just got interested! >:-)

[showingup.livejournal.com]

Me too! Just as we were about to discover the secret to being broad capital humans!!!

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Well, Michael is my IT guy. Seriously, I lean on beloveds for IT all the time. And he was exhausted after dealing with two clips last night.

So maybe next week.

[wgseligman.livejournal.com]

Leave it as it is, chopped off in mid-sentence!

Look at this way: If someone is chopped off in mid-sentence, and you think "Thank God it's over", then the speaker has failed.

If you're chopped off in mid-sentence, and the audience thinks "Oh no! I was interested in that!" then you've succeeded.

[wgseligman.livejournal.com]

I wish you success on the submission of your TED Talk application tomorrow! You're a compelling speaker; the bit where you made a random dude an example of your topic was wonderful.

I have a tip for you as you go through the next round of the process. I advise you to not mention the CAM aspect of their approach to healing. When I look over the typical TED talks at www.ted.com, and consider the audience that would be receptive to the topics, I picture Skeptics; the Penn&Teller or Phil Plait types.

When you say that the women pursued CAM as part of their health care, what they're liable to hear (given a skeptic's cultural capital) is "these women wasted what little money they had on useless remedies that are no better than self-hypnosis." It might tend to bias them against the resourceful women and drown out the other points you're trying to make.

I hope you don't mind this observation. I'm not trying to be negative; I'm trying to apply my cultural capital towards your social capital. See, I learned something!

[showingup.livejournal.com]

Maybe just explain what they got out of CAM, rather than ditching reference to it: the sense of empowerment (taking charge of some part of their own health care); the opportunity to relax (this hour of reiki, massage, etc. = a desperately needed break from their stress); meditation has been discussed time and again at TED for its cognitive and physical benefits, so pointing out that mindfulness meditation allowed the women greater peace of mind, calmness, to listen to what their bodies were telling them, generally enhancing wellbeing and internal resources; the herbs do have effects (where does 80% of our medicine come from?); and some of the ways in which CAM fit in with their cultural backgrounds, and so helped to deal with the alienation of the US health care system, etc.

Seems to me that pretending this didn't exist - never mind wasn't important - would be to miss a whole chunk of the point: that these resourceful women used what helped them to survive, regardless of what others might think of them for doing so - indeed, it was the best educated women who practically flung themselves at me first for massage, and the less educated, poorer women who hung back until they'd assured themselves that it was OK (was that a function of unfamiliarity with massage as a healing modality, or my whiteness? I don't know).

[wgseligman.livejournal.com]

I acknowledge the positive benefits of CAM in these women's lives. However, for a talk like this it's important to know your audience, or at least your judges. Even if Sabrina puts CAM forward in the manner you suggest, skeptical listeners may be waiting for a moment when she says that the women were wrong to pursue it.

The short-term goal here is for Sabrina's talk to be selected by whomever makes that decision. Let's get her picked to give her full presentation in front of a general audience. Then she'll enthrall them with whatever she likes!

[showingup.livejournal.com]

RAAAAAAAAR!!!!!!! This is fantabulous.

I wish I'd had more teachers like you. I had several in primary school, a couple in secondary school, and 1 at college.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Thank you my dear.

[arielmn.livejournal.com]

ACK! I'm at work and can't get to you tube. Many love and success vibes coming your way....

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you!