IDG Skill: Optimism Ft. Zoe Weil w/Anita Nowak

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Purposeful Empathy with Anita Nowak

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Purposeful Empathy is a Youtube channel dedicated to conversations with people spreading more empathy in the world. Join Anita Nowak, empathy expert, author, award-winning educator, international speaker and certified coach, to learn how like-spirited people around the world are turning up the volume on empathy through purposeful action. Drawing from neuroscience, spirituality, leadership studies, positive psychology and the frontlines of social action, Purposeful Empathy explores the intersection of personal development

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IDG Skill: Optimism Ft. Zoe Weil w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy

Purposeful Empathy with Anita Nowak

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4 months ago

IDG Skill: Optimism Ft. Zoe Weil w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy

Watch this episode featuring Zoe Weil, co-founder of the Institute for Humane Education, to learn how the IDG skill “Optimism” can inspire hope and agency through the power of solutionary thinking.

In this insightful conversation, Zoe shares her journey into humane education and introduces the framework behind her book The Solutionary Way, which empowers people to address systemic challenges with compassion and creativity. She also emphasized the importance of cultivating self-awareness, systems thinking, and collaboration to sustain optimism and create meaningful change in the world.

00:00 Preview

00:31 Introduction

01:08 About Zoe Weil

03:18 Zoe’s backstory

06:42 Restoring optimism in youth through purpose-driven education

11:06 The role of ethical thinking in empowering changemakers

13:56 What is a solutionary’s solution?

17:29 How ‘solutionaries’ are different from a problem-solver, an activist, or a humanitarian?

20:37 Cultivating “Optimism” through collaboration and thinking

25:48 How the IDG definition of “Optimism” resonates with Zoe

30:50 Is hope a verb?

33:22 Why self-awareness is key to a solutionary mindset