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Parenting in a multi-cultural world comes with unique joys, challenges, and many questions, like: How do we navigate cultural differences, expectations, or even communicate these with your children?
We have designed a TEDx community conversation for both "East+West" and Asian parents to share perspectives and strengthen mutual understanding. We'll explore what it means to raise a family across cultures and find common ground while honouring our diverse Asian and Australian identities and values.
This is a space for open conversation, connections, and learning - from and for both parents and their children. This is a journey of your Visibility and Voices (self identity), Values ("East+West"), Veracity (finding and living your own truths), and also having a Vision of how you want to be and belong to each other, and to our home, Australia.
Whether you're navigating cultural dilemmas, seeking better communication with each other, or simply to hear differences, we've curated this community conversation for you:
PROGRAM
Welcome
Community Connections and Conversations
Session 1: Our children in Australian society
Breakout Community Conversations
Session 2: Our relationships at home
Reflections of TEDx Conversationalists
Open Community Conversation with everyone
Join our TEDx ARISE speaker, empathic psychologist Christine Yeung in conversation with different parents in Australia: Asian parents, and an Asian mom in a "East+West" marriage.
Christine is founder of The Weaver dedicated to healthy, strong, and vibrant relationships, and cofounder of Asian Australian Organisational Psychology including promoting cultural equity for Asian-Australians.
A FORWARD BY TEDx CURATOR AND HOST, DAVE LIM-LIGHT
Have you heard the famous poem by Rudyard Kipling that starts: "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"? This is too often quoted to mean that East and West are so vastly different that they can never converge. But of course, East and West DO meet, and then, they also get married and have children! Or bring themselves and their children from East to West
However, few know that Kipling's subsequent lines go...
"Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!"
This immediately counters his first line, and reveals his core message to us that when two people meet, whatever your nationality or race or culture, it is the mutual respect that we have each for each other's character, prowess, and integrity that matter the most.
There is a poem by Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad) that I love which begins:
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass"
We curated this TEDx Community Conversation to be this field, and invite you to meet us there...
Dave Lim-Light and Christine Yeung
Co-hosts of TEDxPowerSt ARISE
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Online
Australia, Victoria, 3000
Australia
- Event type:
- Salon (What is this?)
Organizing team
