Virtual Talk: Solstice in the Time of Pandemic. Participating in a New World

The experience of living in a pandemic has triggered a host of related questions about how human beings behave and react. These range from the philosophical to the political (how shall we be governed? who are "the people"?), from the biological to the emotional (what is stress? how do we respond?) from the conceptual to the practical (what will change? what can we do?). Jane will highlight some observations from her ongoing participation in the "time of COVID" for discussion and elaboration.

Jane Holmes Bernstein is a longtime humanist who is grateful for the educational privileges she has received throughout her life and tries to pay back to some small degree by providing professional neuropsychological services to children (her area of expertise) in an under-resourced, disadvantaged community in Trinidad and Tobago. The Service Learning Program that she started there with US and local colleagues is now in its 15th year. In the US Jane is an attending neuropsychologist at Boston Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor in Harvard Medical School. Her primary professional contributions are as a clinician and teacher. With her colleague Dr Deborah Waber she developed a systemic neurodevelopmental model for the assessment of children's behavior and has taught this extensively via lectures/seminars, workshops, keynote presentations and week-long institutes, to professional groups of educators, psychologists, and neuropsychologists locally, nationally and internationally.

RSVP here to get the Zoom information link.

USING ZOOM and SAMPLE
If you are unfamiliar with Zoom, please see this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsy2Ph6kSf8&feature=youtu.be
(note the Zoom software has been improved for security in the past weeks, AND you do not need to download the software to join the meeting; it can be done via phone or a web browser, and it is MUCH easier than you might fear!) VIA COMPUTER, PHONE OR TABLET
PHONE: +19294362866, meeting number 154575482# US

If you go to our web link for this meeting (visible on this page when you RSVP)-- and you choose not to join using the ZOOM app, you can click on the link at the bottom of that page to 'If you cannot download or run the application, 'join from your browser'."

Please note that there are buttons in the Zoom app that allow you to be seen and heard via any camera/mic your computer has, but these default to OFF, so you will need to find them and un-mute or turn camera on according to your tastes. We ask that you leave your sound in MUTE during the presentation until called on. Thanks!