The event has been closed.

3:00 – 3:15    Social & Networking

3:15 – 3:55    Session 1 - Book Sharing: Toxic Parents - Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

3:55 – 4:05    Break

4:05 – 4:45    Session 2 - Book Sharing: Four Thousand Weeks - Time and How to Use It

Book Sharing: Toxic Parents - Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

Almost each one of us encountered some sort of difficulties in life, relating to subjects of relationships, careers and decision-making. In Toxic Parents, Dr Susan Forward shows why it is so difficult to put the past behind you and helps readers to confront this painful legacy with tested self-help techniques. With this book as your guide, you will discover an exciting new world of self-confidence, inner strength and emotional independence.

Presenter: 郭琴 / Qin GUO

Book Sharing: Brandwashed

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently

Presenter: Otmar Klaas