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Creating a Community and Finding Purpose | Stephen Jon Thompson | TEDxCarsonCity

2016

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As a successful executive recruiter in the software industry, Stephen is dedicated to finding and hiring some of the most unique and smartest people in the world. His expertise extends from data scientists who help people make the right purchase when using the Apple. See more...

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Built to Belong: Discovering the Power of Community Over Competition

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True Belonging: Mindful Practices to Help You Overcome Loneliness, Connect with Others, and Cultivate Happiness

When was the last time you experienced authentic connections with others, truly felt that you belonged, and were surrounded by people who really understood you? Even though many of us experience the power of deep connection much less often than we would like, this sense of true belonging is always...

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The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other

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97 – Learn Ways to Have a Better Conversation with Best-Selling Author Celeste Headlee

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The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin

The Way of Rest: Finding the Courage to Hold Everything in Love

The Way of Rest gathers nearly 200 of Jeff Foster’s most inspiring essays, poems, and reflections on restoring and reviving ourselves when we feel exhausted or defeated.

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The Abandonment Recovery Workbook

The Abandonment Recovery Workbook provides an itinerary for recovery. A manual for individual or support group use, it includes exercises that the author has tested and developed through her years of expertise in abandonment recovery.

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The Compassion Project: A Case for Hope and Humankindness from the Town that Beat Loneliness

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We are in the midst of an epidemic of loneliness. Though modern technology purports to “connect” us like never before, we live increasingly isolated and insulated lives, painfully disconnected from each other, from our values, and from ourselves.

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Belongingness: Essential Bridges that Support the Self

Recent research is establishing the critical nature of social belongingness.

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