Take a Seat is a podcast about flourishing. It’s about the art of thriving, the science and practice of well-being, and people who are “crushing it.” Flourishing expert Dr. Nick Holton explores topics ranging from self-actualization, friendships, and transcendence, to optimal functioning, magnifying collective potential, and creating a better humanity. Guests include experts on the cutting edge of what it takes to help individuals and communities thrive. The podcast is produced by The Shipley School, a PreK-Grade 12 day school rethinking education and what we need to build a better world.
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Take a Seat is a podcast about flourishing. It’s about the art of thriving, the science and practice of well-being, and people who are “crushing it.” Flourishing expert Dr. Nick Holton explores topics ranging from self-actualization, friendships, and transcendence, to optimal functioning, magnifying collective potential, and creating a better humanity. Guests include experts on the cutting edge of what it takes to help individuals and communities thrive. The podcast is produced by The Shipley School, a PreK-Grade 12 day school rethinking education and what we need to build a better world.
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May 19, 2021
Finding Our Way Up the Mountain: Redefining Independent School Education with Michael G. Turner
<p>In this episode of Take a Seat, host and flourishing expert Dr. Nick Holton talks to Michael G. Turner, Head of The Shipley School (a PreK through Grade 12 private school in the western Philadelphia suburbs) about the history and future of independent school education, exploring how private schools can transform to better achieve flourishing and new conceptualizations of excellence. They discuss how private schools can become more equitable, the transition to an inquiry-, project-, and data-based approach to teaching and learning, taking advantage of opportunities for change in schools, and the evolution from positive education to educating for flourishing at Shipley. Turner argues for redefining the factors we use to measure success (like college admission) and explores how you begin to embed these values within the culture of a school.</p> <p>Before transitioning to education, Michael G. Turner held roles in the private and public sectors, including serving as an Assistant Managing Director for the City of Philadelphia and a management consultant. Since then, he has served as a teacher, advisor, coach, admissions director, and Head of School, which is the role he serves in currently at The Shipley School.</p>
April 19, 2021
Driving Impact with Business Executive, Start-up Funder, and Filmmaker Akinwole Garrett
<p>In this episode, we sit down with Shipley alumnus Akinwole Garrett ’00. Aki is a man of many interests and has his hands in a slew of incredible projects. By day, he’s a senior business development executive with Lenovo. By night, he’s the founder and CEO of IMAGIN, a diversified media company focused on film, television, and digital content production, which has produced multiple films, one of which has been shown at prestigious film festivals like Sundance. He also dedicates his time to a handful of institutions and not-for-profit organizations with missions he is passionate about. He does all of this while working to be a loving husband, father, son, and sibling to a large and incredible family.</p> <p>Aki talks about the primary motivation that fuels him to take on so much—what he calls his insatiable desire to drive impact and make a contribution. He shares his strategies for synergizing it all so that he can be his best self mentally and physically in both his personal and professional life. Aki is a really incredible human with an inspiring story and outlook on life. Anyone who is interested in learning more about how to flourish and help others do the same will get a lot out of this episode.</p>
April 12, 2021
The Seed and the Soil: Environments that Lead to Flourishing with Harvard Professor Dr.Matt Lee
<p>In this episode of Take a Seat, we sat down with Dr. Matt Lee, an expert on the science of flourishing at the Harvard Flourishing Project. In our conversation, we dug into the various components of flourishing (happiness and life satisfaction, physical and mental health, meaning and purpose, character and virtue, and close social relationships), as well as how we might re-imagine our systems of education to better support human flourishing and a regenerative way of life for individuals and our planet.</p> <p>As the Director of Empirical Research at Harvard’s Human Flourishing Project, Dr. Matt Lee is “integrating the deep wisdom of the humanities with rigorous social science research” to define and investigate the measurable aspects of flourishing. The interdisciplinary program is aimed at pulling together knowledge from a variety of disciplines to better understand and promote human well-being.</p> <p><a href="https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/people/matthew-t-lee-0">Website</a><br> <a href="//matthew_lee@fas.harvard.edu">Email</a><br> <a href="https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/measuring-flourishing">Human Flourishing Measure</a></p> <p><br> 2:31 <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/measuring-well-being-9780197512531?cc=us&lang=en&">Measuring Well-Being</a><br> 2:50 Career background<br> 4:51 <a href="https://www.levellerspress.com/product/the-joyous-recovery/">The Joyous Recovery</a> - Lundy Bancroft<br> 7:08 Domains of flourishing<br> 13:04 <a href="https://scottbarrykaufman.com/">Transcend</a> Scott Barry Kaufman<br> 13:30 <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/132789/why-good-things-happen-to-good-people-by-stephen-post-phd-and-jill-neimark-foreword-by-reverend-otis-moss-jr/">Why Good Things Happen to Good People</a> Stephen Post<br> 15:02 <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-heart-of-religion-9780199931880?cc=us&lang=en&">The Heart of Religion</a> - Matthew Lee, Margaret Poloma & Stephen Post<br> 15:15 <a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/should_pediatricians_prescribe_kindness">Should Pediatricians Prescribe Kindness</a><br> 16:55 <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity?language=en">Do schools kill creativity?</a> - Sir Ken Robinsons<br> 25:19 Bruce Perry’s <a href="https://www.neurosequential.com/nme">Neurosequential Model</a><br> 25:47 <a href="https://www.tcpress.com/we-dare-say-love-9780807761076">We Dare Say Love</a> - Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Jarvis Givens & Christopher Chatmon<br> 28:29 <a href="https://www.francissu.com/flourishing">Mathematics for Human Flourishing</a> - Francis Su<br> 31:35 Power of a good mentor or teacher<br> 32:44 <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/03/18/i-and-thou-martin-buber/">I and Thou</a> - Martin Buber<br> 35:26 <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ecosynomics-Science-Abundance-James-Ritchie-Dunham/dp/0990715302">The Science of Abundance</a> - Jim Ritchie-Dunham<br> 39:16 <a href="http://www.drpaulwong.com/meaning-is-the-key-to-mental-health-and-flourishing/">Dr. Paul Wong</a><br> 42:20 Joy & suffering<br> 43:03 <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1541344620978226?journalCode=jtda">Open Space, Transformative Education, and the Pursuit of Flourishing</a> - Matthew T. Lee, Molly Hartsough, Sam Borick & Brooks Gathagan<br> 44:23 “Students experienced a moment of being seen fully, both in their strengths but also in their flaws, in a classroom context”.<br> 45:06 Is it possible to be seen fully?<br> 46:30 Regenerative soil conditions<br> </p> <p><br> <br> </p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>
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