Living Your Best Life with Gav Thompson

Adam Stofsky is the founder and executive director of the New Media Advocacy Project (N-Map). Adam discovered the power of new media advocacy when working in Nigeria on a massive forced eviction case, which had been stalled in court for fourteen years.

He produced a documentary, advised by local lawyers, which allowed the evictees to tell their story and advance their case.

Adam continued to develop his new media advocacy ideas at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, where he used new media to secure positive results for Katrina victims, employment discrimination plaintiffs, and minority voters.

He is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School.

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Recorded live at the global event in California, USA in 2012.

Watch Adam's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/adam-stofsky-a-lawyer-with-heart

We are all in a pause now.

How do we make sense of that and how do we make the most of it?

How can we use this time constructively and creatively, to set new priorities or ask new questions?

How are we responding and how else might we respond?

Rob shares what he learned in writing his book ‘DO Pause’ to turn the  situation of being in lockdown during Covid-19 to our advantage.

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Recorded live as part of our online Live Lecture Series in 2020.

Watch Rob's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/rob-poynton-why-we-all-need-to-pause-right-now

As a teenager unsure of what he wanted to do, Joe opted for something manly – Engineering.

Fed up with that, he jumped at the chance of a year’s work experience in Africa. Came back and moved to London. After a number of years, he knew he had to face up to what interested me most – human beings, their experiences, issues and directions in life.

He embarked on Counselling and Career Guidance courses. Over the years Joe has worked with a few thousand teenagers and adults helping them discover their own identity, thus empowering them to choose fulfilling, purposeful, personally meaningful and successful paths’ in life.

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Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2011.

Watch Joe's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/joe-casey-how-school-leavers-can-learn-how-to-make-the-right-career-choice

After studying at Oxford, Robert worked in a number of London best and most colourfully named advertising agencies before leaving to travel the world.

He ended up in Spain, from where he never quite made it home. A serendipitous meeting (in Portland, Oregon) gave him a way to make work into play (and play into work). The result was On Your Feet, which uses ideas and methods derived from improv theatre to help people work together better.

Robert Poynton is an Associate Fellow of Oxford University’s Saïd Business School where he contributes, using improvisation, to a number of executive leadership programmes.

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Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2011.

Watch Rob's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/robert-poynton-beyond-control-a-complex-world-demands-the-ability-to-improvise

Phil Parker is an internationally renowned lecturer, therapist and innovator in the field of personal development.

He has also changed the lives of thousands of people by designing the groundbreaking Lightning Process® seminars.

He has been lecturing in NLP, Self-hypnosis and Hypnosis, Life Coaching and Osteopathy, at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels, since the early 1980s.

He is the Director of The Phil Parker Training Institute where he researches and designs programmes, and trains students.

He is well known for his encouraging, entertaining and stimulating style of teaching, and his ability to break down complex ideas so that they are easily communicable and understandable.

Phil now runs an internationally renowned practice based in London; people from all over the world and all walks of life, including actors, celebrities and sports personalities are drawn to his practice and his work has been translated into a number of languages.

His core principle is that people are geniuses with amazing skills, qualities and talents, and he hopes he can help as many people as possible to find that out about themselves.

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Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2010.

Watch Phil's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/phil-parker-why-the-words-you-say-to-yourself-matter

Tim spent more than a decade in Fast Moving Consumer Goods, ending up as Client Services Director of the global advertising agency BBDO.

He then co-founded a retail business that achieved a turnover of £17 million. Selling the business in 1992, Tim has built up a portfolio of interests.

He set up, and Chairs, three Think Tanks for Chief Executives, including the Sports and Leisure Industry, with CEO from brands such as Nike, Reebok, and Adidas.

Tim’s latest book, published in 2009, entitled You Can Be As Young As You Think. It is an uplifting and practical guide to moving from Old Brained, anxious, defensive, closed, thinking, to Young Brained, creative, enthusiastic and open thinking.

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Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2012.

Watch Tim's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/tim-drake-how-young-is-your-brain

James was a promising marine at the age of 20, one year later he was sentenced to 15 years to life after a deadly confrontation with a drug dealer. Prison became survival and the first few years he was in isolation, he shared a recreation yard with death row inmates, including Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams, founder of the notorious Crips gang in Los Angeles. When James was allowed to rejoin the prison’s general population in 1987, he took advantage of the opportunity to make more of his life.

Almost three years out of prison now, James smile tells the story. He completed his BS in psychology shortly after release, graduating summa cum laude. Now his days are filled with helping people from all walks of life as a drug and alcohol counsellor in Napa and Sonoma Counties, a career inspired by his mother, who passed away in 2012. He also serves as a lead facilitator for the Alternatives to Violence Project in Santa Rosa. In February James was honoured with the unsung hero award for compassion, presented to him by the Dalai Lama for his work founding a program in prison to tutor inmates.

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Recorded live at the global event in California, USA in 2014.

Watch James' full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/james-alexander-a-changed-man

In 1981, long before the world got hooked on green juices and chia seeds, Romy opened a small natural health and beauty shop in London’s Covent Garden. And Neal’s Yard Remedies was born. She saw it decades before everyone. Now spending her time at her 300 acres mixed organic farm set in the rolling hills of East Devon. A real pioneer.

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Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2018.

Watch Romy's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/romy-fraser-how-to-believe-in-your-own-magic

Hall Newbegin, a hiker, mushroom-forager, wildflower enthusiast and all around wilderness freak, founded the wilderness fragrance company Juniper Ridge in December of 1998.

Hall began bottling the various scents of the West by harvesting plants while on hikes and then distilling them in his kitchen to create natural fragrances that he would sell at local farmer’s markets in Berkeley and San Francisco. Now with a total of 20 on board with him at Juniper Ridge, the company has grown but still holds onto its original mission: to bring the quiet and potentially transformative experience of being deep in the mountains into people’s homes and daily lives.

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Recorded live at the global event in California, USA in 2015.

Watch Hall's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/hall-newbegin-let-your-freak-flag-fly

Long, slow, solo expeditions. Author. Speaker. Film maker. Educator. Trainee Psychotherapist. Mum to three donkeys.

Sarah Outen is an adventurer by land and sea. Her most recent major expedition was a 4.5-year bid to loop the planet using human power - rowing across oceans, cycling across continents and kayaking the bits in between. An advocate of getting outside, Sarah is all about sharing the good energy and spirit of the outdoors and adventure.

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Recorded live as part of our online Live Lecture Series in 2020.

Watch Sarah's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/sarah-outen-what-500-days-alone-on-the-ocean-taught-me-about-solitude