{"id":879,"date":"2019-10-03T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/employeesmatter.co.uk\/?p=879"},"modified":"2019-10-03T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:56:29","slug":"guest-speaker-from-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/employeesmatter.co.uk\/guest-speaker-from-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest speaker from Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Resilience &#8211; Lessons from the Thai Boys Trapped in the Cave<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Teerakiat Jareonsettasin (Dr Tee) and Dr Mark Berelowitz\nrecently gave a major presentation at the International Conference of the Royal\nCollege of Psychiatrists, about the \u2018boys in the cave\u2019 and about the lessons we\ncan learn from how they coped with their experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tee, who is also a former Minister of Education and a former\nSenator in Thailand, has met the boys.&nbsp;\nHe speaks about how they perceived their experience, how they supported\none another, how they coped during and after their time in the cave, and about\nhow their experience and their ways of coping relate to the values and culture\nof their society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark (who is a Consultant Child Psychiatrist at the Royal\nFree in London, and whose current passion is promoting the wellbeing of young\npeople) speaks about contemporary concepts of resilience and about how in\nWestern literature our current models of resilience seem to focus exclusively\non individuals&nbsp; and not on society.&nbsp; Mark and Tee together propose ideas about\nwhat would make for a healthy, caring&nbsp;\nand resilient society, and how to bring this about.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their ideas combine both ancient wisdoms, such as the core\nprinciples of Buddhism and Stoicism, as well as contemporary neuroscience.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, they advocate, for both societies and individuals,\na mix of short-term realism and long term optimism, when we are faced with\nadversity.&nbsp; This applies whether one is\ndealing with personal issues such as marital breakdown or illness, or shared\nsocietal problems such economic or geopolitical adversity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They argue against a \u201cwinner takes all\u201d approach and draw on\nthe thinking of contemporary philosophers about what makes for a just and\nsustainable society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Tee and Mark have been awarded the Gusi Peace Prize for\n2019, for their humanitarian work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resilience &#8211; Lessons from the Thai Boys Trapped in the Cave Dr Teerakiat Jareonsettasin (Dr Tee) and Dr Mark Berelowitz recently gave a major presentation at the International Conference of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, about the \u2018boys in the cave\u2019 and about the lessons we can learn from how they coped with their experience. 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