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URBAN ZEN WORKSHOP

Food Solutions: A Whole Foods Approach to Wellness, six workshops that give you the practical tools to make food lifestyle changes.

 

October 27-30, 2009 www.tedmed.org

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Donna Karan, founder of the Urban Zen Foundation, is speaking at TEDMED 09.TEDMED (Technology, Education, Design, Medicine), celebrates conversations that highlight the intersection between all things medical and healthcare related. The conference taps into the today’s most pressing issues and tomorrow’s most innovative solutions. This year, speakers include Dean Ornish, Jesse Dylan, Martha Stewart, Annie Wojcicki, Andrew Weil and Goldie Hawn, with presentations and discussions that focus on areas such as public health, wellbeing, science and health related technology, and intelligent design. It is the perfect medium for Donna to share her story and speak on patient care. We could not be more excited to be a part of this event and to take one more step towards realizing our mission of caring for the patient and making an impact on the healthcare system.

Please visit www.urbanzen.org to view the talk after October 30, and contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you would like more information.

 

October 27-30, 2009 www.tedmed.org

TEDMED on Twitter

Urban Zen on Twitter

Donna Karan, founder of the Urban Zen Foundation, is speaking at TEDMED 09.TEDMED (Technology, Education, Design, Medicine), celebrates conversations that highlight the intersection between all things medical and healthcare related. The conference taps into the today’s most pressing issues and tomorrow’s most innovative solutions. This year, speakers include Dean Ornish, Jesse Dylan, Martha Stewart, Annie Wojcicki, Andrew Weil and Goldie Hawn, with presentations and discussions that focus on areas such as public health, wellbeing, science and health related technology, and intelligent design. It is the perfect medium for Donna to share her story and speak on patient care. We could not be more excited to be a part of this event and to take one more step towards realizing our mission of caring for the patient and making an impact on the healthcare system.

Please visit www.urbanzen.org to view the talk after October 30, and contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you would like more information.

 

October 27-30, 2009 www.tedmed.org

TEDMED on Twitter

Urban Zen on Twitter

Donna Karan, founder of the Urban Zen Foundation, is speaking at TEDMED 09.TEDMED (Technology, Education, Design, Medicine), celebrates conversations that highlight the intersection between all things medical and healthcare related. The conference taps into the today’s most pressing issues and tomorrow’s most innovative solutions. This year, speakers include Dean Ornish, Jesse Dylan, Martha Stewart, Annie Wojcicki, Andrew Weil and Goldie Hawn, with presentations and discussions that focus on areas such as public health, wellbeing, science and health related technology, and intelligent design. It is the perfect medium for Donna to share her story and speak on patient care. We could not be more excited to be a part of this event and to take one more step towards realizing our mission of caring for the patient and making an impact on the healthcare system.

Please visit www.urbanzen.org to view the talk after October 30, and contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you would like more information.

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"Where do healthcare and medicine collide with brilliant minds and uninhabited imagination?"  TEDMED 2009

It's been a week since TEDMED 2009 wrapped, and the challenge and the excitement is taking all the ideas learned and generated during the conference and moving forward. Donna Karan, who spoke at TEDMED, and Sonja Nuttall, the creative director of Urban Zen, return from the conference completely inspired to share what they've learned. "TEDMED is the future of

changing medicine and healthcare," says Sonja. Watch this space for follow up stories.

 

At TEDMED, Donna shared her story about her husband, Stephan Weiss, and one of her best friends, Lynn Kohlman. Their battle with cancer led Donna on a journey of heartbreak and loss. She emerged from that journey an advocate of the healing power of integrating eastern healing modalities into western medical settings. Her vision of healing and caring - for

patients, loved ones, and caregivers - led to the creation of the URBAN ZEN INTEGRATIVE THERAPY PROGRAM.

 

The speakers at TEDMED all shared a little about themselves. Some of the stories were about moments of vulnerability, some about technical advances, but all were looking forward, and simultaneously remembering our humanity. Highlights from the forum include:

 

- Jack Lord, president of NAVIGENIC who is seeking to connect the healthcare dialogue and the power of science.

 

- Goldie Hawn, founder of the HAWN FOUNDATION, who spoke on understanding the scientific mind of the child and keeping them in touch with their emotion so they can go to school with joy, happiness.

 

- Vic Strecher, founder of HEALTHMEDIA - who spoke on the motivation of change.  "I would call him the Good Coach," says Sonja. Dr. Strecher explores the role of interactive communications technologies on health behavior change and decision making.

 

-And who could forget David Blain, a magician who has set records for high-profile feats of endurance and attributes it to being able to enter meditative states. To watch a clip of his talk, CLICK HERE

 

-Alexander Tsiaras demonstrated THEVISUALMD, an interactive site that offers 3D imagery to tell compelling stories about health, and replace what Alexander calls existing "boring" content. To see an interview on ABC, CLICK HERE

 

-Jesse Dylan, founder of LYBBA, shared his vision to use SMO to form a community of healthcare practitioners.

 

-And of course Richard Saul Wurman and Marc Hodash, founders of TEDMED.

 

Read more about Urban Zen in the press, CLICK HERE.

 

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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, spoke at the New Beacon Theater on “The Quintessence of Compassions.”  Our creative director, Sonja Nuttall, shares some thoughts her experience.

One of the stories His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, spoke about has been brewing underneath my consciousness for the past few weeks, and I’d love to share it with you.  It’s a story about human nature.

His Holiness was in Dharmasala and he saw a man on the street with an aquarium.  The aquarium held something like a snake or an eel.  He looked, and he looked again, and he thought, “He has a pet.”  Moments later, a Tibetan picked up the eel, chopped off the head and the tail, and wrapped it up.

These are not the Tibetan ways, His Holiness said, alluding to the killing of animals for food.  He discouraged people from harming other sentient beings, including animals. His wish for his people is that he would go back to the way that they truly are.  It’s not in his nature to kill.

It is wonderful to be on the same journey and try to give back to others.

 

 

October 27-30, 2009 www.tedmed.org

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Urban Zen on Twitter

Donna Karan, founder of the Urban Zen Foundation, is speaking at TEDMED 09.TEDMED (Technology, Education, Design, Medicine), celebrates conversations that highlight the intersection between all things medical and healthcare related. The conference taps into the today’s most pressing issues and tomorrow’s most innovative solutions. This year, speakers include Dean Ornish, Jesse Dylan, Martha Stewart, Annie Wojcicki, Andrew Weil and Goldie Hawn, with presentations and discussions that focus on areas such as public health, wellbeing, science and health related technology, and intelligent design. It is the perfect medium for Donna to share her story and speak on patient care. We could not be more excited to be a part of this event and to take one more step towards realizing our mission of caring for the patient and making an impact on the healthcare system.

Please visit www.urbanzen.org to view the talk after October 30, and contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you would like more information.