Self-Talk for Social Change – Marc Cordon | Hancock Symposium 2023
2023 Hancock Symposium executive session #2 by Marc Cordon, Marc Cordon Creative and The Joy Revolution, LLC, on "Self-Talk for Social Change." September 20, 2023, at 9 am in Champ Auditorium.
By adopting empowering self-talk, individuals can cultivate resilience and agency for meaningful societal transformations. Marc Cordon will discuss the powerful impact of self-talk in driving social change. Self-talk plays a crucial role in shaping our thoughts and behaviors. Compassionate self-talk fosters inclusive relationships, while affirmative self-talk promotes activism for equality and justice. Recognizing the risks of negative self-talk, individuals can replace harmful patterns with constructive alternatives to contribute positively to social change efforts. Harnessing the potential of internal dialogue paves the way for a more equitable society.
Marc Cordon, MPH, is a positive psychology coach, multi-time TEDx speaker, and author of the book Beyond Resilient: The Coach's Guide to Ecstatic Growth. He's also the host of The Golden Mic Podcast, a show about personal narrative, social change, and spirituality. In his coaching company, Joy Revolution, he works with misfit entrepreneurs and leaders who march to the beat of their own drum. Marc's coaching empowers people to claim their joy as they make a difference for others. As the founder of Marc Cordon Creative, he assists change agents, content creators, and conscious entrepreneurs in getting their message out to the masses through podcasts, TEDx talks, digital academies, PR, authorship, and more.
The theme of the 2023 Hancock Symposium was "The Languages of Life": the words we speak, the movement of our bodies, the patterns of our DNA, and the characters that are eloquently drawn on pages for us to read are all examples of languages that we live and breathe daily. However, there’s more. How do the trees speak to one another to warn of a coming storm? How do companies persuade you to buy their product? How do politicians use phrasing to earn your vote? How do computers communicate with only zeros and ones and yet form a foundation for society? How does the shared experience of a culture or subculture create a vernacular only understood by its members? How can we foster better communication, by being inclusive and equitable with our words and our actions? This Symposium will engage experts who will help us understand the languages of our lives, and spur us to think carefully about how we choose to communicate with those around us. It will highlight the importance of values, character, lifelong learning, and problem-solving — all key components of a liberal arts education.
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