IS WELLNESS MAKING US WORSE?

We are an American obsessed with self-seeking and self-perfection, driving a wellness industry that reaches more than 80 million people and fuels a market worth more than 650 billion dollars. An industry that promises to make you better, stronger, healthier and whole and meets an ever-increasing demand amongst Americans to "feel good" and find meaning in a cruel and confusing world. But while wellness soars so does inequality, insecurity and isolation. We don't need more juice fasts and yoga fads--we need to detox from the ideologies of separation, supremacy and scarcity that are holding us back from our best selves. In this talk, Kerri Kelly wellness activist and author of American Detox, The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal sounds a wake-up call - the wellness we are so relentlessly seeking is only possible through a practice of radical responsibility that goes beyond self-help to collective care. Join us for a provocative discussion about what it means to be well in a toxic world.

HEALING THE POLITICAL BODY

America has become a country of record inequality, resilient racism, chronic illness and power-hungry leaders. And while all of this is happening, we turn to the promise of wellness. Wellness promises to make you better, stronger, healthier and whole. It meets an ever-increasing demand amongst Americans to "feel good" and find meaning in a cruel and confusing world. But while wellness soars - a mega-marketplace worth over 650 million dollars - so does inequality, insecurity and isolation. The myth of "wellness" isn't making us better, it's making us sick. In this provocative talk, activist and author of American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal sounds the alarm - if we want to truly be well, we must face the truth of how we got here and detox ourselves from the long legacy of separation, supremacy and scarcity. Only then can be begin to recovery our whole selves and heal the political body.

WHY WHITE PEOPLE NEED TO STOP DOING GOOD AND START BEING HUMAN

The call for white people to "do the work" is a serious one. Not just because of the historical and present, pervasive and persistent, embodied and systemic impact of white supremacy on Black and Brown people, but because it threatens our democracy, our planet and our humanity as a whole. White supremacy is bad for all of us. In this talk, Kerri Kelly, activist and author of American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal, calls on well-meaning white people who are ready to reckon with how we're implicated in the system of white supremacy and what it's going to take to heal from the wound of racism. Kerri's humble yet fierce approach has supported CEOs, influencers, activists and leaders of all kinds in their commitment to the practice of equity.