Our attention gets hijacked by everything from the stress in our lives to the ding of our phones. Neuroscientist Amishi Jha shows how we can cultivate the ability to focus on what really matters. “I think, therefore I am distracted.” If Descartes were writing today, this is what his famous aphorism might have become. We’re living in an age o...

About this event: A fun evening featuring thought provoking talks on a variety of topics including: stress and mindfulness, art and design, the environment, volunteerism, computer science and psychology

About this event: Learn about the future of mindfulness, artificial intelligence, and the human language at TEDXYouth@Zurich on Saturday, March 10th. The event will take place at Zurich International School in Adliswil from 13.00- 16.30.

About this event: You are cordially invited to the next TEDxTheHague salon! Our November edition — themed Being Present in the Moment— is curated by Yolanthe Smit. Yolanthe writes: "How do we become aware of being in the moment? How and when do we feel it and where? How does 'being present' relate to our concept of time? Tonight we will explore, in an experie...

What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment.

About this event: TEDx Sunset Park, is a two-hour event that will focus on strategies of mindsight (Dan Siegel), mindfulness (Diana Winston) and metacognition (Alise Shafer Ivey). Each speaker will discuss insights into how these concepts can transform the way we live and act.

About this event: Join TEDxUniversityofPittsburgh for our first ever Salon. New this year, Salons will be a series of events meant to foster conversation around ideas worth spreading. Tickets: (This event is open only to students at the University of Pittsburgh. You must bring your Pitt ID). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxuniversityofpittsburghsalon-mindfuln...

Kiran Bedi's campaign to bring mindfulness to prisons was expressed in one amazing photo: 1,000 prisoners meditating in one room. Sheikha Al Mayassa (live via satellite from TEDxDoha) on cultural development in the Middle East: It must be done organically, from within the region. Naomi Klein: "Our underlying assu...

About this event: The theme of this year's TEDxPrincetonU is Catalyst. Our conference will feature catalysts—people and ideas aggressively changing their respective fields. From mindfulness to artificial organs, catalytic reactions permeate our lives. Join us, as we explore how catalysts are actively shaping our future.

About this event: TEDxScarsdale launched on Sunday, March 11th, 2018 from 2-4 pm. Located in the Scarsdale High School Auditorium, the presentation included keynote talks from Alan Schwarz (SHS '86!), Suzanne Nossel (SHS '87!), Divya Narendra, Frank King, and Viktor Koen centered around the theme "Meaningful Mindfulness." Thank you for attending! We hope to see y...

About this event: The world is made up of interdependent relationships, some quite obvious and others less so. As daily participants in this system we often miss these interactions. TEDxSpokane: Connections and Intersections creates an environment of mindfulness and openness to find new meaning in seemingly unrelated ideas. This year’s event will explore the i...

About this event: Since the beginning of civilization, the campfire has been a place for people to come together - a place to tell stories, learn from each other, and gain a sense of belonging and community. We welcome you to our modern campfire, where we’ll share new ideas that will shape our future together. We’ll be having conversations about masculinity, rel...

About this event: "Mindfulness is paying attention here and now, with kindness and curiosity, so that we can change our behavior." This quote from Amy Saltzman’s A Still Quiet Place for Teens, is the focus of a TEDx Salon event on WEDNESDAY, March 28th at 5:30 pm at Worcester Idea Lab, 20 Franklin St. in downtown Worcester (See below for parking suggestions). ...

About this event: Our theme this year is “Dream,” which we have interpreted broadly to allow our speakers to consider their dreams of the past, present, and future. Today’s talks will cover a variety of topics from medicine adherence to learning math to mindfulness to college success. We hope you will leave inspired by these talks to take action in your communi...

About this event: We live in a great time of dualities: digital and handmade, science and art, artificial intelligence and humanism, rural and urban, haves and have-nots, basic and abstract, internal and external, east and west, past and future. Openness and mindfulness is needed now more than ever to bring both sides of the equation together rather than choosing...

One in four people have some form of mental illness, and Ruby Wax wants to talk about it. Watch her TEDTalk, posted today and inspired by her show Losing It, to start the conversation. One project she didn't get to mention onstage at TEDGlobal: This winter, Wax started up the Black Dog Tribe, an online network for people with mental illness ...

  Sometimes technology isn’t the answer to every problem. Even at the TED conference. At TED2016, TED partnered with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to run a blue-sky workshop session on creating a new healthy school from scratch, imagining new solutions to problems that plague educators, students, schools, and the communities that ...

Gratefulness isn't always something that comes easily. Below, some reading and watching to get you into a thankful headspace. Watch: "Want to be happy? Be thankful." This TED Talk from David Steindl-Rast is the perfect Thanksgiving appetizer. In it, the Benedictine monk and interfaith scholar talks about what, exactly, it means to be gratefu...

As the year comes to a close, the TED community is busy as ever. Below, a few highlights. Plant-robot hybrids are here. At the MIT Media Lab, researchers Pattie Maes and Harpreet Sareen have developed a new kind of “cybernetic lifeform”: a cyborg plant called Elowan that marries organic and digital technologies. Elowan’s robotic half track...

About this event: “Get Your Life in Sync”. There are a lot of things in life that pull us in different directions, with our everyday life increasing in speed and complexity. We want to seek balance and synchronize our life, integrate the personal with the professional and find a pathway to growth. As we are growing everyday, the desire to synthesize the variou...

Today, we're excited to bring the world of TED Talks further into your home with the new TED Talks skill for Amazon Alexa! Available on devices with Amazon Alexa including the Echo and Echo Dot, TED fans can now listen to the latest ideas from the world's greatest thinkers by voice command. For existing Alexa users, enable the skill by s...

It’s a complaint we’ve all heard about the internet: all the cat videos and incessant celebrity gossip sites are making us, as a culture, stupider. However, digital community expert Howard Rheingold, doesn’t think that’s the case. In fact, he believes that both designing and using digital media can actually improve our intelligence. As Rheing...

About this event: EDxWomen is an exciting opportunity to share some of the main stage TEDWomen talks. This year's theme of TEDWomen, "Bridges," speaks to the ways in which we build bridges, traverse them, and sometimes even burn them, for better or worse. On the 2nd of November we will host a stream with the most inspiring and captivating TEDWomen 2017 talks fro...

When Shaka Senghor (Watch: Shaka Senghor: Why your worst deeds don’t define you) was nineteen, he shot and killed a man — and was sentenced to spend the second nineteen years of his life in jail. At first, Senghor sat in his cold cell and rationalized his worst deeds. “In the hood where I come from,” he says, “it’s better to be the shooter than ...

As this calendar year draws to a close, many of us are making resolutions about personal growth and change. It's a great time, too, for making changes in our working lives. Most of us spend a good portion of our days doing some kind of work -- learning or teaching, making or planning, following or leading -- and it's worth thinking deeply on how...

Wise words and solid advice from BJ Miller, who thinks deeply about the end of life as head of the Zen Hospice Project. Death is an uncomfortable topic. Although we’re well-acquainted with platitudes that remind us to seize the moment and live each day like it’s our last, few of us devote real time to envisioning the end of our lives -- or the ...

About this event: The TEDxTeachersCollege 2012-2013 special events and main conference will focus on the theme of “Be Here Now." The events will cover four subthemes: being a mindful individual, creating mindful workplaces, building mindful communities, and practicing mindful education. These subthemes will feature both students and practitioners as speakers and...

About this event: What does the future hold for humanity in the next 30-50 years? And how should we future-proof ourselves? Thinking about whats to come, we will cover emotional intelligence (self-care) and how its development can aid in being a good human being, have better life relationships, and be at peace with self with exercises such as practicing mindful...

About this event: Becoming You by TEDxCorkSalon is a place for young women to have a conversation to explore the path of becoming themselves focusing on authentic self and body image. We will have live speakers, a short Q&A session with the speakers led by young women and interactive workshops relevant to the theme.1:30pm @ Sample-Studios The salon will be...

About this event: Now in its 5th year, TEDxYouth@KC returns and is Making A Scene—our 2019 theme! At this all-ages event, we are excited to present youth-focused ideas, speakers and performers that foster creativity, mindfulness, entertainment, and more. Please join us for an afternoon highlighting both youth and youth leaders, how they are Making A Scene in the...