Category: Speaker

Anne Watts

June 25, 2017

Anne Watts is a certified hypnotherapist, educator, mediator and coach, specializing in couples and family dynamics, healing the inner child and issues of self-esteem and sexual abuse. In workshops offered by the Human Awareness Institute (http://w15.hai.org), Anne witnessed the transformation occurring on a deep and practical level; they opened their hearts to themselves and others through the healing power of love. Anne realized that she had found the vehicle to express compassion, empathy and service to others in a way that transcends social and cultural boundaries, and trained to be a HAI facilitator. Since 1985, she has facilitated hundreds of workshops in the U.S., Australia, Japan, Germany and England.

The Human Awareness Institute (HAI) empowers individuals to be potent, loving, and contributing; promoting personal growth, by replacing ignorance and fear with awareness and love. HAI aims to create a world where people live together in dignity, respect, understanding, trust, kindness, compassion, reverence, honesty and love. The Human Awareness Institute is committed to creating a world where everyone wins.

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Prof. Nancy C. Unger

June 11, 2017

For more than one hundred years, gay clubs and bars have served as sanctuaries and party-spots and hook-up sites. They’ve been the secular centers of community and education. But also of violence and persecution that ultimately led to great advancements in pride, rights, and freedoms. This richly illustrated talk by Santa Clara University history professor Nancy C. Unger highlights the history of a long and colorful American tradition in the LGBTQ community: the gay bar.

 

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Manuel Manga

June 4, 2017

According to evolutionary humanist Julian Huxley, humanity now has been appointed managing director of the biggest business of all, the business of evolution. Human beings are determining the direction of evolution on this earth. Humanists are invited to assume a bigger role and vision in this process. This presents an opportunity for humanists all over the world to envision a better future for humanity and a planetary era of one earth, one family, one future.

Our speaker, Manuel Manga, is an organizational consultant, facilitator, and leadership coach.

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Phillip Pflager

May 28, 2017

Mr. Pflager will speak about the goal of members of Veterans for Peace to serve the cause of world peace, and their pledge to use non-violent means to achieve these goals.

Phillip Pflager is currently Chapter Contact for “South Bay/Peninsula” chapter of Veterans for Peace; a community partner of the San Jose Peace and Justice Center. Mr. Pflager enlisted into the Air Force in 1961, was sent to Vietnam and Thailand in 1964 and was discharged late in 1965. He retired from an electronics career in 2008 and resides in his home in Cupertino where he has lived since 1953.

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John Seager

May 21, 2017

John Seager, President & CEO of Population Connection (www.populationconnection.org), will address global population growth, its causes and impacts, and how we can meet those challenges.

Global population grows by approximately 80 million people annually. In 1999, the United Nation’s Population Division projected that world population would reach 7 billion in 2013. Instead, we reached that milestone a full two years earlier than anticipated, hitting 7 billion in October 2011, and 7.4 billion in August 2016. Recent projections by the UN for a medium population number are 8.1 billion in 2025, 9.7 billion in 2050, and an astounding 11.2 billion in 2100. John’s talk offers an overview of root causes, impacts and ways to meet the population challenge, illustrating the intersections between population stabilization, the environment, social equity, and women’s empowerment.

Before joining Population Connection, John was with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. John also served as Chief of Staff for former U.S. Representative Peter H. Kostmayer (D-PA), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs and Interior committees. A veteran of more than 50 political campaigns, John has published op-eds and articles on population growth for a number of news outlets including Huffington Post, GlobalPost, and RH Reality Check.

Population Connection is the preeminent grassroots group seeking to stabilize global population. It calls attention to the ramifications of rapid population growth by educating, informing, and inspiring Americans to support voluntary methods to achieve global population stabilization—especially funding for domestic and international family planning. With 300,000+ members and supporters, we educate people and motivate activism.

 

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