TEDx Monterey

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TEDxMonterey...on the edge...
At a White House conference about "bridging the word gap" participants learned what our audience already heard from Ann Fernald last spring, that quality matters when speaking to children

Quality of Words, Not Quantity, Is Crucial to Language Skills, Study Finds A new study found that the caliber of the words spoken to young children was more valuable than the number of words heard in the development of a child’s language skills.

The brave and very insightful Fariba Nawa - TEDxMonterey 2013 speaker - with an amazing article in Newsweek this week:

One Family, Divided by ISIS An inside look at one of the thousands of families across Europe torn apart as radicalised young Muslim men and women volunteer to fight for Islamic State's jihad

Two of our videos from TEDxMonterey 2014 have already been featured as Editor's Picks on the TEDxTalks website - congratulations Sheril Kirshenbaum and Amy Benson!

Editor's Picks Explore some of our favorite TEDxTalks in this week's Editor's Picks below, or browse past weeks' favorites in the left menu.

Maternal mental illness is finally getting the attention it deserves and is featured on the front page of the New York Times with the first of a series of articles about Mother's Mind http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/health/thinking-of-ways-to-harm-her.html?src=me&ref=general
We are so proud of our own Maureen Fura who spoke about her experience and quest at TEDxMonterey 2013:

Rewriting the Story: Maureen Fura at TEDxMonterey Maureen Fura is a freelance video producer and storyteller. She lives in Miami with her husband, two beautiful boys and big black lab Sam. She enjoys daydrea...

Debra's honesty is a wonderful breath of fresh air and (I can only hope) a potential glimpse in my relationship with my future daughter.... Like I said I can only hope. :D

Random Acts of Kind Mind: Debra Ryll at TEDxMonterey

Amy Benson's talk from our April event, "The Heavy Burden of Hope - Girl's Education in the Developing World" has been selected as a TEDx Editor's pick of the week! Connect with Amy and Scott's documentary project "The Girl Who Knew Too Much" via Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/GirlWhoKnewTooMuch - let's help them bust the 1,000 likes barrier!

You can find and subscribe to TEDx Editor's Picks on the TEDx Talks site here: http://tedxtalks.ted.com.

Betty Sproule had the audience laughing and reflecting about our relationship with stuff in her light and fun TEDxMonterey talk this year. Did you know that there are more personal storage facilities in America than Starbucks? Get with the program and lighten your load. Betty is here to help you get to your "right stuff" and help us all work toward a more sustainable, happy future.

Getting to the Right Stuff: Betty Sproule at TEDxMonterey

Exploding with truth and raw emotion, Mikey Frias, the first Youth Poet Laureate of Salinas, brought the audience to tears and to their feet with his poetry.

A Poem Titled "Hope": Mikey Frias at TEDxMonterey

Does parenthood make us better stewards of our planet? Is there hope for an overpopulated Earth? In her TEDxMonterey talk, Sheril Kirshenbaum suggests that what matters most is how we choose to live.

Sheril also recently published an article for the Atlantic that re-frames the prospect of raising a family in a world with a global population of 9 Billion: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/having-kids-wont-destroy-the-planet/370798/

Rethinking Population: Sheril Kirshenbaum at TEDxMonterey

The human capacity for language and communication across cultures is breathtaking! In what may be the first tri-lingual TEDx talk, professional conference interpreters Barry Olsen, Laura Burian and Miguel Garcia demonstrate the craft of consecutive and simultaneous interpretation while working with colleagues Weihao Zhang (Chinese) and Beatriz Rodriguez (Spanish).

More Than Words: Laura Burian, Miguel Garcia and Barry Olsen at TEDxMonterey

How are you supposed to "lean-in" when you are already maxed out? In this thought-provoking talk about women and work Katrina Alcorn seeks to further the conversation started with Sheryl Sandberg's call to action for women, to a discussion about a society that leans in to parenting.

Maxed Out: Changing the Conversation about Women and Work: Katrina Alcorn at TEDxMonterey What happens when you lean-in and fall right over? Author and mother Katrina Alcorn was juggling a fast-paced dream job and motherhood until the day she just...