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Before we can influence others, positive change must first take place at the individual level, says Christy Davis. With personal innovation, we can live and work through #COVID19 uncertainty with a clear head, calm heart and courageous, humour-filled spirit.
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A global pandemic is no laughing matter, but humour and levity may just be the best medicine to get us through this unsettling period. In this commentary, Dr Tania Nagpaul explains how humour not only regulates negative thoughts and emotions, but also encourages optimism and enhances life satisfaction.
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“With COVID-19 firmly establishing its presence in the world, now is the time for people to embrace changes and create new habits.”
—Shirley Pong, Manager at LCSI
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In #Thirsty4Change, a cross-disciplinary collaboration between the Lien Centre for Social Innovation and LASALLE College of the Arts, five students have come together to explore design interventions that might bring about a more sustainable bubble tea culture. We catch up with one of them to learn about their use of coding and data visualisation in the process.
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With recently announced plans to build new and improved foreign worker dormitories in residential areas, some citizens are more welcoming to the idea than others. Yet “the true measure of a society lies in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” Op-Eds published in the Straits Times and TODAY referenced our 2015 research study on migrant workers outlining this group’s three major distress factors: housing problems, threat of repatriation and agent fee debt. Our call to action remains relevant today: “embrace the dignity of work and the workers.”
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#Altruism, #Compassion and #Empathy are three attributes necessary for building purpose-driven societies and reshaping the post-#COVID19 world for the better. Get to know the ACE framework and find out how to tap its potential for good in this Social Space article by Michael Jenkins, CEO and co-founder of Expert Humans.
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COVID-19 has led to the cancellation of countless internships, travel plans, summer jobs, music concerts and festivals, graduations, conferences, you name it. When fixed deadlines become fluid, and both short- and long-term goals turn hazy, we tend to procrastinate more, says Chardonnay Needler, a student at the University of Pennsylvania. Who else can relate to COVID-related inertia?
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Join us on 25 June, 9:00–10:00am for our next edition of #SocialConversations, featuring a BYOBreakfast-and-Questions Zoom session with Steve Schmida, the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Resonance. Besides introducing his new book, Partner with Purpose, Schmida will speak on how businesses and organisations across sectors can build sustainable and purpose-driven partnerships.
Register here!
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