Theme: The Changing Man

Welcome to TEDxCorkSalon a place for diverse, passionate and open minded individuals to connect with each other.

Salon 6 The Changing Man will be our final TEDxSalon event! This will discuss what masculinity means in 2017. This salon will feature live speakers and an interactive discussion.

Admission: €5
The last date to purchase tickets via email tedxcorksalon@gmail.com is Tuesday 18th April 12noon.

Speakers include...

1. Blake Norton, Professional Wrestler
2. Stanley Notte, Poet
3. TJ Hogan, Activist, Cork Travellers Visibility Group Ltd
4. Charlie Stevens, Integrative Psychotherapist & Constellator
5. Micheál O'Mathúna, CEO & Founder of The Health Zone

AN SPAILPÍN FÁNACH
27-29 SOUTH MAIN STREET
CORK, Cork, T12 DYX9
Ireland

Blake Norton

When Blake Norton was 11, his father left home and moved back to America. Like many who lose a parent during their formative years, Blake was consumed with guilt and confusion. As time went on, his relationship with his father deteriorated, as did his relationships with other family members and at school. At sixteen, Blake started drinking, and while fledgling a career in media was initially very successful, it was only a matter of time before his compulsive escapism caught up with him, leading to unemployment and depression. Blake's path changed at 23, when he was offered a job coaching professional wrestling for a small gym in Dublin. It became immediately apparent that if Blake didn’t learn an awful lot about how to be the kind of role model young people need awfully quickly, he was going to wind up passing on the same insecurities, disconnect and frustration to these students that he experienced in his relationship with his father. So began Blake's schooling in earnest, whereby he went to work each day acutally aware that it was he who was studying. By trial and error, Blake looked to the students to help educate him how to become the role model they needed, and in the process, learn how to repair his relationship with his father.

Charlie Stevens

Charlie Stevens has a background in teaching yoga and meditation and training yoga teachers firstly with the British Wheel of Yoga and then in Contemporary Yoga founded with Marianne Gabriel. Charlie has a long interest in personal development and this led to counselling and entering psychotherapy for himself. Charlie then completed Higher Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in UCC and then a Masters in Integrative Psychotherapy there. Charlie is also trained in Family Constellations and has held workshops in this for the last 10 years. One of his mentors and supervisor in this was Hunter Beaumont. He is also an accredited supervisor and his training in Collaborative Practice helps divorcing or separating couples, this came from his own experience of divorce.

Micheál O'Mathúna

Micheál O’Mathúna is Journalist, Facilitator and founder of The Health Zone a platform set up to empower people to be healthier, happier, more authentic and realise their true potential. Micheál has interviewed many leading health and wellbeing experts such as Marianne Williamson, Dr. Ivor Browne, Caroline Myss, John Gray, Dr. Tony Humphreys and Dr. Temple Grandin. His most recent claim to fame was his dating experience on First Dates Ireland on RTE 2. For over 20 years, he has had a deep passion and thirst for knowledge in the areas of health, spirituality and relationships. He has travelled and lived in India, South Africa, America, Canada, Australia and Europe and while there, studied and learned many aspects of health and wellbeing. Micheál shares his own journey from a place of inauthenticity to becoming more truer to himself.

Mike McGrath

Hailing from the fields of North Cork and settling in the city, Mike McGrath-Bryan is a full-time hobbyist, specifically in music and new media. Writer for Evening Echo, Broadsheet and Nialler9; curatorial assistant for TEDxCorkSalon and #CorkLovesMusic; general freelance miscreant.

Stanley Notte

Stanley Notte is a writer and entrepreneur who, having recovered from depression using self-help tools, now splits his time between writing, enjoying life, being his superhero, Leyton Attens, and – when he has to – working. His writing has appeared in Writer’s Magazine, Cork’s Evening Echo and Speak Your Mind magazine, and been featured on Red FM and Soho Radio London. He has performed at a wide range of venues and festivals in Ireland, including Body and Soul, Townlands, and Connolly’s of Leap.