How Stoicism Can Help: Finding a Philosophy for Life
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How Can Stoicism Help... With your Health? Your Heart? And your Home?
About this event
Stoicism has become all the rage these days... and for good reason.
Found within this ancient philosophy are keys to navigating modern problems.
Stoicism can help with health issues like Chronic pain, PTSD and anxiety... it can improve your relationships as well as your home life...and it has useful tactics that stick.
Best of all... you can discover all this with a smile on your face. Yes! Really...
Not sure how? Well... it has to do with this very unique panel...
Find a Philosophy for Life on April 14th at NOON EST.
Featuring: Karen "Duff" Duffy, model, television personality, actress, and author of “Wise Up”; Donald Robertson, a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, trainer, writer as well as one of the founding members of the non-profit group, Modern Stoicism; and Nancy Sherman, Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and New York Times Notable Author.
Moderated by Anya Leonard of Classical Wisdom, a site dedicated to bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds.
Can't join us on the day? We don't want you to miss out on these valuable lessons... if you register in advance, we'll send you a recording afterwards!
***Register today and you can win a copy of Duffy's new book, "Wise Up". In the words of Bill Murray, comedian, actor, and sage of Hollywood:
“Reading Wise Up put a smile on my face. This book will change lives. Duffy writes seriously important books that she doesn’t take too seriously. I guess that’s the secret. Read this book or you will miss it.”
About the Speakers:
Karen Duffy is the New York Times bestselling author of Model Patient... and most recently, "Wise Up: Irreverent Enlightenment from a Mother Who's Been Through It ". She is a producer, actress, and former MTV VJ. She has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in New York.
Nancy Sherman is a New York Times Notable Author. Her most recent book is Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience. She is also the author of Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of our Soldiers; The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of our Soldiers a New York Times Editors' pick; Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind; Making a Necessity of Virtue: Aristotle and Kant on Virtue; The Fabric of Character: Aristotle's Theory of Virtue, and the editor of Critical Essays on the Classics: Aristotle's Ethics. She has written over 60 articles in the area of ethics, military ethics, the history of moral philosophy, ancient ethics, the emotions, moral psychology, and psychoanalysis. She has delivered over 60 named or keynote lectures and plenary addresses here and abroad. Nancy Sherman holds the distinguished rank of University Professor at Georgetown University.
Donald Robertson, president of Plato’s Academy centre, is a writer, trainer, and cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist. He is a dual UK and Canadian citizen, with permanent residence in Greece. He is the author of six books on philosophy and psychotherapy, including How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, a bestseller that crosses genres, combining history, philosophy, and modern psychology. Donald is one of the founding members of a British nonprofit organization called Modern Stoicism Ltd., which promotes Greek Stoic philosophy and aims to make it accessible and relevant to the general public.
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Anya Leonard is the founder and Director of Classical Wisdom, a site dedicated to bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds. Anya studied philosophy and comparative literature at St. John’s College in Annapolis, a great books program and received her MA in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. She has recently published a children’s book, Sappho: The Lost Poetess, dedicated to the life, works and remarkable recent discovery of a poem written by the 7th century Poetess, Sappho. She currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.