Repairing emotional isolation by reawakening deep nature connection | Jon Young

Repairing emotional isolation by reawakening deep nature connection | Jon Young | TEDxGrandPark

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Jon delivers a refreshing perspective on how we can expand our awareness of nature to reawaken ancient, hardwired skills to grow our connection with each other and create more harmony in the world.
Jon Young is a naturalist, wildlife tracker, peacemaker, author, storyteller, and a leader in the field of nature-based community building for 36 years.
Jon’s research on the significant impact of nature on wellbeing has influenced thousands of people worldwide.
Jon has authored and co-authored several books, including What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (2013), Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature (2007), and contributed to Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing (2019).
In 2016, Jon received the Champion of Environmental Education Award for his innovative work inspiring positive developments in the field and for fostering the growth of the nature connection movement globally. Jon Young is a naturalist, wildlife tracker, peacemaker, author, storyteller and leader in the field of nature-based community building for 36 years. Jon’s research on the significant impact of nature on wellbeing has influenced thousands of people worldwide.
Jon has authored and co-authored several books, including What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (2013), Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature (2007), and contributed to Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing (2019). In 2016, he received the Champion of Environmental Education Award for his innovative work inspiring positive developments in the field and fostering the growth of the nature connection movement globally. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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@avijitbiswas7529 3 ай бұрын

This video is an underrated gem ❤️

@chinajoe2008 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Jon. Your STORY is too often unheard today. I am an Australian Daoist and have lived in Wuhan, China for 17 years. Fortunately the Wudang Mountains are near Wuhan; Wudang Shan is the sacred home of the Dao. The Dao cannot be understood intellectually. It can only be understood intuitively. This is why so many Westerners have great trouble truly understanding it; for example, the "Tao Te Ching" (in Chinese it is the "Dao de Jing". One of the primary lessons of the Dao is virtually the same as yours - a return to nature. In Daoism it means understanding and going WITH nature, not against. The most beautiful elements in our world are 'of nature' - the only beautiful man-made elements in our world are in-line with nature; great art in all its forms. Laozi wrote: "the poet becomes the poem, the dancer becomes the dance" and so it is with all things. If we follow our intuition, as does nature, spontaneity follows; without thought, without judgement, without fear of others' judgement or our concern for reward. As an Australian I have long believed we have much to learn from our Aboriginal brothers and sisters, as you have learned from the Caligari people. They hold the ancient wisdom and are willing to share their knowledge with us. We are our only obstacle. We need to truly listen. I fear we have become a population of social media addicts, hearing only sound-bytes of information and calling that wisdom; choosing "LIKES" over substance, knowledge over wisdom. My favorite time of day is around 4:30 am when the birds wake-up and start talking to each other, in song. Wuhan is very cold in winter so they fly south and return in spring. Because of the COVID virus I feared they might not return. Imagine my joy several weeks ago when I awoke to hear them chattering :)

@sonyatrivino9854 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing comment! Keep it holds!

@mommar4858 Жыл бұрын

Such joy hearing birds come back

@PaulSerry Жыл бұрын

Connection with our internal and external environment without barriers, interpretation, judgment, defences and instead enjoy and celebrate our own innocence...

@VincentGill3 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for a beautiful presentation. This pandemic is telling us that we need get out of the cities and live in the countryside, so that we can begin to heal our bodies and souls.

@highercallingmusic9240 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jon Young I'm forever greatful for what you've helped to re-awaken in me!

@advocacynaccountablity 4 жыл бұрын

Telling our stories is a big element of Twelve Step work, and it's unsurprising that this is a fundamental need of humans to connect.

@thapeloheath 18 күн бұрын

What happens when there's nobody in the group capable of catching a particular attendee's story? Have you encountered anything like that either as the one whose story wasn't honoured or as one of the listeners who failed to honour someone's sharing?

@allthewayfrom 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this, Jon. And thank you for your continued service to all of us.

@PsychoSocialCreation 4 жыл бұрын

I love how you talk about the awaken senses and how we are all connected🌿👏🏽

@KomTvdelhi 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@mroman263 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@brentking4236 4 жыл бұрын

nature = infinite intelligence

@rwells369 4 жыл бұрын

Brent Kingi aka Intelligent Infinity too :)

@blueberriechiiizcake 4 жыл бұрын

I always love talks like these where we are encouraged to become present, aware and in tune of nature then seeing with wonder and appreciating, loving its beauty. Finally, moving us towards consciousness that our nature needs us now more than ever it give it love backb take care of it and preserve it. 😊 It's like spirituality for me (also a topic i love). This is a peace-giving nature-loving talk. ❤

@valeriesanchez3074 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent speech! Unfortunately many cannot benefit and join with nature until they learn to disconnect from technology.

@blueberriechiiizcake 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. For some we can do some balancing. And when our love & wonder for nature exceeds the attention on tech we have then we can use our tech to open other's eyes too and open doors for nature

@SammyLyrics 4 жыл бұрын

Actually

@sophiiageneve2317 2 жыл бұрын

Precisely, well said. The technocratic/transhumanist damp dream we see now is not our future, ditch the 'smart' phone, get a landline, reconnect with people, reconnect with nature. People are social creatures and need one another as much as they nature and they know it. Thanks!

@onelovemon1784 Жыл бұрын

@@sophiiageneve2317 yes true. I agree I am connected to nature in many ways. I always will be. I hope you are too. Thank you

@thapeloheath 18 күн бұрын

What prevents this all-or-nothing fallacy being used to stand as an excuse? Jon rarely or perhaps never claims that technology is a problem. This is so, whether you take technology in the narrowest sense you may have intended (web-based electronic devices) or much more broadly (to include such technologies as greeting customs, wide-angle vision, or forgiveness). I happen to be dirt poor (or dirt rich, depending on how highly we assess the value of my multiple compost piles and the extraordinary resilience of my microbiome) and living far away from Jon, so I'm very grateful that he shares so much technology from various indigenous legacies with us via technology from the industrial world. And in another talk he points out that the Bushmen love Jackie Chan movies... Digest that one.

@fredrik8806 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Especially about the nervous system adapting to nature. It's true when you think about it

@LifewithAaronArnold 4 жыл бұрын

Possibly the best channel on KZfaq. Much love for this content QUALITY!!!!!!

@carolinagonzaga5133 4 жыл бұрын

amazing speech!! we are living in a time with big disconnection with nature and others, it’s time to look for that connection again..

@ushaponnusamy6708 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your sharing. Loved the traditional connectedness and how it expands our experience s. 😍🙏💐🐦🌈

@sacredvoiceofnature326 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful and precious, thank you!

@monterohealingarts1359 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this wisdom. This is the medicine we need right now.

@jaxx-inspiregrowcreate2862 4 жыл бұрын

We are meant to be in nature not in concrete jungles. Something to remember

@blueberriechiiizcake 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful 😇😇😇

@adrianalais1 4 жыл бұрын

*Notification of new Ted Talk pops up* Me: Oh... I don't have time to watch it... Too long... Just gonna read the description! Me after reading description: OMG I NEED TO WATCH DIIISSS!!!!

@futurecaredesign 4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha, ain't that the truth!

@wildsurvivalskills 4 жыл бұрын

Nice job Jon! Good to see you!

@Alskivator 4 жыл бұрын

Birdsong usually gives me anxiety because it means I haven't slept all night and morning has started haha

@jenn6753 4 жыл бұрын

Same!

@yasashisagakawaii 4 жыл бұрын

@travisallgeier4207 4 жыл бұрын

Hello fellow insomniacs lol

@sonyatrivino9854 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@giulianaparola5942 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful and original speech.. never heard sb who could explain it like that PD: Nice and clear pronunciation (I speak Spanish and I understood perfectly)

@entertainmentlab4727 4 жыл бұрын

Why not know? its your time, go and achieve it. later you will regret. Team TEDs Talks you are very inspiration for me.

@dannacarson-clark8060 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you this why one makes art I believe

@ana88888 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Interesting, so beautiful and so useful 🤝🏻⭐

@claregouldstone9389 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful - thank you!

@suzannegundersen 4 жыл бұрын

We are nature

@pierre6940 4 жыл бұрын

Inspirant !!!! Merci !!!

@Piligrim88887 4 жыл бұрын

God bless you ✋

@HoneyMaty 4 жыл бұрын

Really extraordinary speech

@candaceweaver548 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful insights. Thank you. May I softly suggest you keep your eyes open more as you speak? Thank you. 🙏🏼

@lauradaley7463 4 жыл бұрын

Enlightenment and awakening happens after bad stuff has happened to you ..like a rebirth ..you can't believe that your still in one piece you know ... I'm conscious from being in a coma for a long time I'm asleep in a deep sleep but I'm conscious ...and the fact I'm conscious is at least better than nothing I might be blind and asleep I m brain damaged I'm not in a good way but at least I'm conscious ...I'm kinda still here you know ...at least that's something to be thankful for you know ..

@2tvtv 4 жыл бұрын

fantastic

@onteaya 4 жыл бұрын

Magnificent Speech!!

@lauradaley7463 4 жыл бұрын

I've been away from my real parents for thirty eight years in returning home as a blinded hostage victim taken away from home by strangers ..but I love my parents I can't wait to return home to them in lucky to be alive trying to keep my patience with people believe me I've bitten my tongue so many times im surprised it's still in one piece ...anyway the things you learn from a bad experience ...beaten and attacked and assaulted by men I could not recognise awful This is 38 years of my world I will never forget a story so shocking so far out that the odds of my survival would not have been great ...the very fact that I'm alive is amazing ...thank God ...I have to tell some one my story I guess some folk don't realise what I've been going through ...right now I'm suffering in conscious from a coma and living through a nightmare of all that endured the shock of it all is something I can't begin to describe ...it's like being in shock all of the time ..I have to tell someone what happened to me ...I have to because otherwise I won't have closure ..

@futurecaredesign 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I believe that is a very good insight Laura. Find someone to hear you out and share deeply.

@carlabruce3971 2 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤

@thapeloheath 15 күн бұрын

Laura, if you find grief-healing processes that work for you, you'll have found what all of us also need. Over and over in his talks, Jon speaks of how the biggest challenges to nature connection are in the area of fear and trauma; the levels of fear and trauma that ordinary life leaves us with may not be as extreme as what you experience, but it's big enough to keep us from connecting to nature, and we all need to heal.

@John83118 5 ай бұрын

This is a top-tier piece. A book with similar attributes became a cornerstone in my life. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint

@IHateScottSoMuch 4 жыл бұрын

I love how Jon does everything to avoid saying Tom browns name initially

@elizabethpenhollow3727 4 жыл бұрын

Why?

@Arshdeep9929_ 4 жыл бұрын

Wow extraordinary speech👍🏻

@PeenutButt 4 жыл бұрын

It was just uploaded like seconds ago

@Arshdeep9929_ 4 жыл бұрын

@@PeenutButt heehheee

@futurecaredesign 4 жыл бұрын

@@Arshdeep9929_ Jon Young is one of the best story tellers I know. Check out a talk on youtube called 'Earth Talk Jon Young' and you will be surprised.

@Memiceelfandeye 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful presentation 💜✨

@melavie7119 4 жыл бұрын

Very important talk! Thank you! ❤️

@conan7089 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, nice Ted Talk!

@richiecayetano3337 4 жыл бұрын

Bruhh I was the camera man for those shows 💀💀

@yourspranayjain 4 жыл бұрын

We pick threads and thread them until we make them ropes....

@yourspranayjain 4 жыл бұрын

Our genius will become more obvious,... Listening without conditions..... We become aware of ourselves...

@laurenzerl5159 2 жыл бұрын

when the bird picks up the worm I don't feel comfortable, I feel like in the body of the worm and I feel harmed

@theshayannn 4 жыл бұрын

reminds me of into the wild movie

@arvindjain4995 4 жыл бұрын

संसार के ऐसे सभी धर्म , जो धर्मप्रचार ,प्रसार, विस्तार को धर्मकी विषय वस्तु मानते हैं। तब उन सबका भारत में निषेध होना चाहिए। धर्मको लेकर भारतको नीति निर्धारित करना चाहिए। धर्म ; प्रचार ,प्रसार और विस्तार से कुछ अन्य ही है। अब भारत में अधर्म का निषेध होना चाहिए। अरविंद जैन गीता सफाई अभियान।

@lauradaley7463 4 жыл бұрын

I've been a hostage victim for the past eight years emotional isolation is devastating no contact from anyone except your captor the person that holds you hostage it's the worst experience ever emotional isolation does arrange things to a person I've experienced kidnap and abduction as well as being kept hostage I think of it as that those experiences aren't my fault it's down to the mindset of others that choose to take it hold other people's family ill people troubled people it's very very sad and frightening in monohydrate to my release ...as a princess which I am in a royal princess that ended up as a blind hostage held and assaulted and and hostages by people I couldn't recognise awful experience..wouldn't wish what happened to me to happen to anyone else

@toodie535 3 жыл бұрын

on FB, Pollinator Friendly Yards can provide info on welcoming nature to your home patches

@JustHindiFootball 4 жыл бұрын

So,people are still up.

@ijasikku1706 4 жыл бұрын

*💪BREAK THE CHAIN💪* stay home..stay safe ..we will survive.. ..Like from kerala, INDIA.. ..കമന്റോളികൾ നീണാൾ വാഴട്ടെ..😁 9k12

@adrianalais1 4 жыл бұрын

What about the turtle story? Did I miss it? ))):

@souayang7982 4 жыл бұрын

i thought it was jon young the rapper

@bellapoof8255 4 жыл бұрын

Who told this guy that the education system is ok? 'Lots of "investment" in it'

@OblivionTechYT 4 жыл бұрын

Who is watching during World War 3?

@hirakghosh2710 4 жыл бұрын

@user-fx3rm4sh8p 4 жыл бұрын

Do you know who else suggested good hygiene and quarantining during a pandemic? Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, over 1,300 years ago. While he is by no means a "traditional" expert on matters of deadly diseases, Muhammad nonetheless had sound advice to prevent and combat a development like COVID-19. Muhammad said: "If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague outbreaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place." He also said: "Those with contagious diseases should be kept away from those who are healthy." Muhammad also strongly encouraged human beings to adhere to hygienic practices that would keep people safe from infection. Consider the following hadiths, or sayings of Prophet Muhammad:

@umarnolen3616 4 жыл бұрын

#1 thou who smelt it dealt it

@nicolelyon2530 4 жыл бұрын

That is wise advice. This originated in the times of the New Testament/Torah. Humans were not aware of things like germs, bacteria and viruses, so God's very specific instructions for his people were to keep them healthy and safe and prevent outbreaks of contagious diseases, bacteria, contamination of food etc. that they knew little to nothing about. Wise people then passed on this information throughout the ages. Unfortunately, I don't think most people were educated in it or practiced it enough throughout later history or there would have been a lot less health problems, plagues and death! Ancient wisdom should never go out of style!

@futbolhd2490 4 жыл бұрын

i'm number one

@benjituihalamaka9714 4 жыл бұрын

Hello

@johnb8854 4 жыл бұрын

DISCOVER and Understand the Difference, between "LIFE The Real Self" and the human PRIMATE. The human PRIMATE, is what "LIFE, The Real Self" is Experiencing...