TEDxUCLASalon

TEDxUCLA

TEDxUCLA invites you to participate in a salon on RESTORATION. In addition to an activities fair, speakers will explore the topic of restoration and offer a program of thought and conversation in this critical time.

James E. West Alumni Center
325 Westwodd Plz
Los Angeles, California, 90095
United States

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Speakers

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Dustin Plunkett

Special Olympics Southern California athlete Dustin Plunkett has been active in Special Olympics for more than 21 years. He has thrived as both an athlete and a public speaker, no small task for a young man with a speech impediment and a cleft palate in addition to his intellectual disability. Dustin has risen to the highest ranks of athlete leadership as an International Global Messenger, where he has had the opportunity to travel the world. One of his fondest memories was sharing the stage with Yao Ming at the World Games in Shanghai. Plunkett relishes each opportunity he can get to reach people and share his own story of success over adversity in order to inspire others to do the same. Special Olympics has empowered him take control of his own life. He was a member of the Board of Directors for LA2015, as well as a member of the GOC for LA2015. During the 2015 & 2017 World Games he served as an ESPN Analyst calling the parade of athletes live on ESPN during opening ceremonies. Today Plunkett work for Special Olympics Southern California, as a Manager of Outreach and Inspirational Speaker.

Erin Somerville

Erin Sommerville has been an international teacher, lecturer, consultant and coach on Mind Body Medicine for more than 30 years. For the past eight years she has developed and established one of the country's first Mind Body Cancer Coaching programs at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in Long Beach, Ca. Erin has a passion for helping patients who fear their cancer diagnosis will overwhelm and forever define them. While they may worry that life will no longer feel joyful, safe and free, Erin teaches that healing is a creative process requiring vitality, imagination and courage. Rediscovering what inspires and ignites their Spirit. What they deeply love, cherish and value. In this way, they can embrace the experience as an opportunity to restore the integrity of their true nature - and a chance for a happier, more fulfilling and authentic way of life.

Erin Sommerville

"Erin Sommerville has been an international teacher, lecturer, consultant and coach on Mind Body Medicine for more than 30 years. For the past eight years she has developed and established one of the country's first Mind Body Cancer Coaching programs at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in Long Beach, Ca. Erin has a passion for helping patients who fear their cancer diagnosis will overwhelm and forever define them. While they may worry that life will no longer feel joyful, safe and free, Erin teaches that healing is a creative process requiring vitality, imagination and courage. Rediscovering what inspires and ignites their Spirit. What they deeply love, cherish and value. In this way, they can embrace the experience as an opportunity to restore the integrity of their true nature - and a chance for a happier, more fulfilling and authentic way of life. Her Coaching Program is based on her many years studying and teaching the integration of Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science - and was profoundly deepened by her own journey with a diagnosis of cancer."

Jose Arellano

Jose grew up in a household that was plagued by generational gang involvement. His mother was addicted to drugs and he did not know who my father was. Jose was a hopeful child that eventually lost hope and joined a gang a 12 years old. He was arrested for the first time in my life at 15 years old and ended up spending a little over a decade in the California prison system. In the beginning stages of my life he experienced abuse both verbal and physical. He started to believe that his life was worthless and he began to live that narrative out until he found a place called Homeboy Industries. There Jose was received with unconditional love by a community that embodies kinship and compassion for anyone that walks through the doors. He was in essence “returned to myself.” He felt special just for being alive. As human beings we are all born wanting the same things, to love and be loved. It is our duty to return one another to ourselves.