decision to challenge the advice led to the diagnosis and treatment which gave the couple more precious years with their daughter.
From this heartbreaking human trauma came a valuable lesson – that we should ask for information, respectfully challenge it, and discuss how we feel about what we’re being told. Our ability to receive and interrogate information in this way can literally be life-changing – and is part of what makes us human.
Communication helps us sink or swim
Two speakers provided compelling accounts of how their experiences at sea shaped their outlook on life. Johanna Hooper was aboard the Royal Navy ice patrol vessel HMS Endurance when it catastrophically flooded in the Antarctic in December 2008. Her thoughts centred on the human response to stress triggers, and working together in a crisis.
Dee Caffari, the only woman to sail non-stop around the world three times, made valuable points around the importance of non-verbal communication. This was reinforced at sea, when crew members’ faces were covered – something we can all relate to now.
What I took from it was the importance of speaking face to face wherever possible, because so much of what is said is not spoken. It should make us think twice before sending an email to somebody sitting close to us – especially if that message contains something you wouldn’t say face to face. As a technology provider, I also thought about video calling, and how it helped us all stay connected during the pandemic in a way that audio calls or emails never could.
Some things will never change
At Aura Technology we’re all about progress – how we can work better and smarter, communicating and collaborating to everybody’s benefit. But we never forget that people are at the heart of every organisation, and there are basic human principles that remain, however far society and technology progress.
At TEDx Southampton these were identified as social connectivity, health and wellbeing, our value systems, our quest for self-improvement and our need for security.
These will never change. We’re only human, after all. Tim Walker
Tim Walker, with organisers Annelies James-Ryan and Lee Peck
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