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Last Saturday April 20th at TEDx Beixinqiao was a day to remember. The venue was at the stunning Gravity Museum, Fengtai, Beijing.

When I stood on that stage, just for a split second I wished I had done debating back at school . Once I began speaking the most startling revelation was seeing the encouraging nods and smiles particularly from women in the audience.

Nothing else would have pulled me onto that stage other than to share the idea behind the ‘ Memory Palace of Tree Stories‘ . Our Cultures have a huge roles to play in addressing our ecological emergency. The talk was titled ‘Rekindling our Bond With Nature’  exploring  the importance of rebuilding our bond with the living world as we confront our ecological crises and build solutions together for our communities, our economies and our cultures while also supporting each other during these ecologically challenging times. It was of course  about fostering community and inspiring fresh perspectives on environmental challenges through the sharing of tree stories .

 

Huge thank you to all the other wonderful speakers, all impressive people  who wholeheartedly helped and supported each other sharing tips on preparing , dealing with nerves and sore throats.

here is a link to the overview of speakers from the event on Saturday

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/1kjll1u-UGWc-pmuZMWUjA

 

Huge Kudos to the amazing TEDx team of organisers who were dealing with a multitude of challenges, especially Sophie Wu, Sebastian Sunday Greve, Keith Collea, Xiaodan Xi, Songbin Huang, Mihriban Tursun. Rida Bokhari, Jacob Lish , Badrehdin Mostafa , Frank Liang, Rida Fatima Bokhari, Ruili Wang .

Special thanks also to speaker coaches Aaron Leung (for the first part of this journey) and to Jess Sato for the later part of preparations to getting on that stage and of course to speaker buddy  Keith Collea who was there to help throughout this six month journey. 

We shall just sit tight now for the video processing,  approvals and upload of the  link onto official TED platforms over the course of the next four months.