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WISDOM-RELATED VIDEOS
Insightful messages delivered by streaming video

Spirit at Work Creative Video Contest The Centre for Spirituality in the Workplace is offering prizes of $7,500, $3,500, and $2,000 for short videos "on what spirituality and work is, and how you would promote it in a workplace."

Jon Kabat-Zinn Guided Mindfulness Meditation Video. This 16-minute video is from the 2011 Wisdom 2.0 Conference: "Exploring living with Awareness, Wisdom, and Compassion in the Technology Age."

Jack Kornfield Guided Lovingkindness Meditation Video. This 16-minute video is from the 2011 Wisdom 2.0 Conference: "Exploring living with Awareness, Wisdom, and Compassion in the Technology Age."

Videos from the 2011 AEPL Conference. The 2011 conference of AEPL, The Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, was held in Estes Park, Colorado in June. The theme of the conference was "Literacy for Love and Wisdom," and teachers at all levels of the educational spectrum shared what they are doing to help students move in the direction of greater love and wisdom. Personal teacher stories and portions of conference activities were video recorded. Some videos have been edited and can be viewed now; others will be added as the editing of each is completed.

Daniel Goleman on Compassion. In this 13-minute TED video Daniel Goleman, award-winning author of Emotional Intelligence, opens our eyes to why those of us who value compassion so often fail to act compassionately.

Sage Qualities in Character is the 12-minute video of a talk given by Gola Wolf Richards at Maine's 2010 TEDxDirigo conference.

Flaws in Human Mentality — The Video. Based on the popular Wisdom Page essay, this video is a 22-minute illustrated tour of the less-than-perfect hand that evolution dealt us, plus a look at the hopeful side of the situation.

WISDOM and THE WISDOM PAGE is a 9-minute video that introduces the three big questions concerning wisdom: What is wisdom? Why is wisdom important? and How can we develop wisdom? It touches on answers to all three, and invites the viewer to visit The Wisdom Page website and explore the matter more deeply. (Also available on YouTube.)

Bill Moyers Interviews Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot See what this Harvard-based adult educator has to say about living the 50-to-75 year period of life to the fullest. Check also this stages-of-life book review.

Copthorne Macdonald Talks and Videos. Streaming video, audio, and audio-with-slides presentations.

Barry Schwartz Video on Practical Wisdom This inspiring 20-minute MP4 talk by Barry Schwartz was presented at the 2009 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Long Beach, California.

The Wisdom Speakers project headed by videographer Gilles Gagnon "captures messages from extraordinary 'ordinary' people and spreads their wealth of knowledge in the form of short videos." Worth viewing!

An Introducton to Nicholas Maxwell
Professor Maxwell talks about the need for a wisdom focus in academia, and about a new book he is writing. This video is available in two formats:
          An Introducton to Nicholas Maxwell
in FLV (Flash video) format.
          Duration: 7 minutes    
          An Introducton to Nicholas Maxwell in WMV (Windows Media Player) format.
          Duration: 7 minutes   

Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroscientist at Harvard who had a massive left-hemisphere stroke. In the two videos below she explains how the stroke left her in a state of right-brain facilitated bliss, and how she struggled for 8 years to regain the use of her left brain hemisphere. She discusses her experience in the videos below:
          Stroke of Insight   Streaming video feed from the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
          (Also available for viewing in Flash [FLV] or Windows Media Player [WMV])
          Jill Bolte Taylor's 2008 TED Talk   Streaming video feed from the TED website.
          (Also available for viewing in Flash [FLV] or Windows Media Player [WMV])

Center for Spirituality and Health at the University of Florida makes available on their web site (in WMV streaming video) talks by highly respected speakers.

Free Audio and Video Lectures and Other Learning Resources are now available from an increasing number of prestigious universities and other organizations.