BolderLife Foundation Presents:

BolderTalks brings you: Mark Andreas, Author of Sweet Fruit from the Bitter Tree

When: July 30, 2012

Cost: FREE

Where: Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave, Boulder, CO

Time: 7:00-8:00pm

“I have always loved stories, they have inspired me greatly, and when I dropped out of high school I got excited about creating stories for others to enjoy, the way I enjoyed stories such as fiction: Narnia, Lord of the Rings, the Redwall series, and nonfiction: Little house on the Prairie, the Education of Little Tree, just to name a very few. I think stories are the most powerful way to learn about life (other than experience itself)–when done well they are both entertaining and impossible to forget. They have the advantage of getting to learn about tough situations, and wrestle with them, in the safety of your own mind… This is great preparation for future real life, wherever we may find ourselves.”

Meet Mark Andreas, if you haven’t already. Maybe you studied with him at Earlham College in Peace and Global studies, or you’ve read some of his sci-fi and fantasy, or he helped you overcome your allergies through Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or you two had that great conversation about conflict transformation, or you were on a trip in the mountains with him talking about life goals and how much rice was left for dinner that night.

Yep, that was Mark. He’s a fiction and nonfiction author and NLP practitioner and trainer with experience in conflict mediation and wilderness therapy. His new book, Sweet Fruit from the Bitter Tree: 61 Stories of Creative and Compassionate Ways out of Conflict, includes stories from Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, NonViolent Communication founder Marshall Rosenberg, Colonel Christopher P. Hughes, Milton H. Erickson, and others.

The book combines Mark’s love of stories, his conflict studies, and his NLP and wilderness therapy background.

“My NLP training allowed me to ask detailed questions of the people I interviewed, and helped me write up their stories so that readers would be able to see how it was that the conflict was transformed, but in an experiential way through the story itself, not a mental analytical way. This makes the stories accessible and interesting to a wide audience, not just people interested in conflict resolution, mediation, non-violence, etc. NLP is never mentioned in the book (except in one story where it was unavoidable), however the principles of NLP helped me a great deal in being able to write the stories up in an engaging way.”

Join us for a free reading and workshop on Monday, July 30th; we’ll explore real-life scenarios in small groups, and learn how others did the radically unexpected to resolve extreme conflict.

Doors open at 6:30pm at the Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave. Event starts at 7:00pm.

If you’d like to support this free programming, and help us deliver BolderTalks as an ongoing project, please check out our KickStarter! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1802683984/boldertalks

BolderTalks is a new BolderLife project, inspired by TEDTalks: a concept that collects and shares the insights of exceptional people and an opportunity that allows people to share their ideas with the community. These ideas are the ways in which we can create an ongoing dialogue between those who share a passion for life, education, and change. The format allows us to start a conversation with all of the unused what-ifs, how-sos, and what-abouts that you’ve been hoarding in your brain.
For out-of-towners, this talk will also be available on our website as part of BolderLife’s developing online educational, artivist programming.

Questions or comments? Contact patrycja@bolderlifefoundation.org
Patrycja Humienik
BolderLife
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