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SUMMARY:Kate Bowler with Rainn Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Kate Bowler with Rainn discussing her book\, “Joyful\, Anyway”\n\n\n \nPlease note: \n— Tickets cannot be re-sold on re-seller platforms. Re-sold ticket will not be honored. \n— Tickets are non refundable and are not transferable. \n— All ticket holders should be ready to show ID at the event. \n— The name(s) you provide during registration will be on a will-call list at the event\, where you will check-in and get your ticket to enter the theatre. \n———————————————————- \nJoin us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event: \nSunday\, April 26\, 2025\, 4pm\n*Virtual event airs on May 4 at 4pm PT/7pm ET \n \nKate Bowler in conversation with Rainn WIlson\ndiscussing her book\,  “Joyful\, Anyway” \n \nTICKETS: \n\n$50 General Admission ticket + signed book\n$75 Two General Admisison tickets + ONE signed book\nAdditional signed books available for purchase at event\n\n\nThe virtual version of this event airs on  May 3\, 2025\, at 4pm PT/7PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days. Tickets include a signed book\nTickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the signed book)\nASL interpreter provided upon request.\nFree parking at the venue\n\n \nSpend an evening with Kate Bowler—bestselling author\, Duke professor\, and expert at telling the truth about being human—in conversation with actor Rainn Wilson. They will discuss joy that doesn’t require us to pretend everything is fine. Expect laughter\, honesty\, and the rare relief of being told the truth: you can’t always be happy—but you can be joyful\, anyway. \n.Kate Bowler is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason\, No Cure for Being Human\, Good Enough\, The Lives We Actually Have\, Blessed\, and The Preacher’s Wife and hosts the popular podcast Everything Happens. A Duke University professor\, she earned a master’s of religion from Yale Divinity School and a PhD at Duke University. \nRainn Wilson is an Emmy Award nominated actor\, best known for the role of Dwight Schrute in NBC’s The Office. He is the host of the Peacock docu-series Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss in which he travels the world in search of happiness. He is author of the New York Times bestselling Soulpankake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions as well as his comedic memoir\, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art\, Faith and Idiocy. His most recent book is Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution. His diverse career includes television\, movies\, Broadway\, unscripted series\, animation\, and podcasts. \n“Joyful\, Anyway is colorful and layered\, unafraid of the occasional gut-punch of raw feeling and vulnerability—much like Kate Bowler herself. She suffers no fools\, especially the toxic optimists.”—Jerry Seinfeld \nYou can’t always be happy\, but you can be joyful\, anyway. \nWe live in a culture convinced that chasing happiness will optimize our bodies\, our minds\, our relationships\, our lives. But in the meantime\, bad news usually stays bad: illness\, chronic pain\, grief\, and disappointment don’t obey our timelines or vision boards. We are left wondering why\, if we’re doing everything right\, life still feels so hard. \nHonest and bracingly tender\, Joyful\, Anyway proves that experiencing joy does not depend on resolving everything that makes life difficult. Drawing on a decade of living with serious illness and a lifetime studying America’s obsession with progress\, Kate Bowler shows why people so busy chasing happiness miss out on actual joy. \nJoy isn’t something you can optimize or manufacture—it finds us at the edge of expectation\, when life interrupts our scripts. Joyful\, Anyway gives language for the ache we all carry and practices for “putting yourself in the way of joy”: loosening control\, introducing novelty\, choosing charity\, and staying open to the surprising\, technicolor moments that pull us back into life. \nJoy reminds us that no matter what\, life is still worth loving. For every time we ask is this it?\, joy will answer: There is more.
URL:https://www.bookswell.club/event/kate-bowler-with-rainn-wilson/
LOCATION:The Ann and Jerry Moss Theater–New Roads School\, Herb Alpert Educational Village\, 3131 Olympic Blvd.\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon
DESCRIPTION:Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon discussing their book\,  “The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land”\n\n\n \nPlease note: \n— Tickets cannot be re-sold on re-seller platforms. Re-sold ticket will not be honored. \n— Tickets are non refundable and are not transferable. \n— All ticket holders should be ready to show ID at the event. \n— The name(s) you provide during registration will be on a will-call list at the event\, where you will check-in and get your ticket to enter the theatre. \n———————————————————- \nJoin us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event: \nTuesday\, April 21\, 2025\, 8pm\n*Virtual event airs on April 28 at 6pm PT/9pm ET \n \nAn Evening with Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon\ndiscussing their book\, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land \n \nTICKETS: \n\n$50 General Admission ticket + signed book\n$25 General Admisison ticket\nAdditional signed books available for purchase at event\n\n\nThe virtual version of this event airs on April 28\, 2025\, at 6pm PT/9PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days. Tickets include a signed book\nTickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the signed book)\nASL interpreter provided upon request.\nFree parking at the venue\n\n \nTwo lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine\, both of whom have lost family in the conflict\, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy\, bloodstained land and discover the mythic\, political\, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples. \nAziz Abu Sarah is a peace builder\, cultural educator\, entrepreneur\, author\, and international speaker. Aziz’s educational and conflict resolution work throughout the world has earned him the titles of National Geographic Explorer and TED Fellow. He has spoken at international organizations and conferences including The United Nations\, Nexus\, and the European Parliament. He has written opinion pieces for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Al-Quds\, Haaretz\, and has been published by CNN and Al Arabiya. \nMaoz Inon is an Israeli peace activist and entrepreneur. He was honored with the prestigious Franco-German Human Rights Prize and the Shared Living Award from Abraham Initiatives. He has spoken at organizations like Capitol Hill\, U.S. universities\, and the European Parliaments. He has written pieces for Washington Post\, Guardian\, Al Jazeera\, Haaretz\, and more. He has founded several peace-focused initiatives within Israel and the Middle East\, including the Jesus Trail\, Fauzi Azar Inn\, and Abraham Hostel & Tour brands. \n“We live next to one another\, yet we are segregated by roadblocks and checkpoints. We share the same dream of a better future for our children\, but we are so divided by fear and anger that we cannot recognize one another’s humanity. The wounds of our history run deep\, but if we are to build a shared future\, we must bring down the walls of ignorance and hatred that divide us.” \nWatch their TED Talk. \nPalestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon are unlikely peacemakers\, dedicated to finding a solution to the bitter war that has decimated historical\, ancient land and ended family lines. Despite the losses they have suffered\, the resolve of their friendship has taught them that strength and unity are more powerful than the violence of separation. Throughout their travels\, they have been constantly asked: In the face of so much pain and suffering on both sides\, when there have been so many lives lost and families shattered\, how can they ever find hope? Their answer is always the same. One cannot find hope. We must create it. \nIn The Future Is Peace\, Sarah and Inon take readers on their unforgettable weeklong journey across the holy land while exploring each other’s personal and national histories in a land of competing narratives\, amid the turbulent push and pull of near constant war\, and the recent devastation that has rocked the world. Their mission—to explain the naivete in believing that more violence can bring security and prosperity to either people while in search of a true and lasting peace. Pairing unapologetic candor and inspirational prose\, Sarah and Inon are sending a message to humanity that the people have the power to make change. Peace is achievable\, not just between the river and the sea\, but throughout the world.
URL:https://www.bookswell.club/event/an-evening-with-aziz-abu-sarah-maoz-inon/
LOCATION:Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar\, 3200 Motor Avenue\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90034\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Charles Duhigg
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Charles Duhigg discussing his book\,  “Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection.”\n\n\n \nPlease note: \n— Tickets cannot be re-sold on re-seller platforms. Re-sold ticket will not be honored. \n— Tickets are non refundable and are not transferable. \n— All ticket holders should be ready to show ID at the event. \n— The name(s) you provide during registration will be on a will-call list at the event\, where you will check-in and get your ticket to enter the theatre. \n———————————————————- \nJoin us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event: \nTuesday\, April 7\, 2025\, 8pm\n*Virtual event airs on April 14 at 6pm PT/9pm ET \n \nAn Evening with Charles Duhigg\ndiscussing is book\, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection \n \nTICKETS: \n\n$45 General Admission ticket + signed book\n$25 General Admisison ticket\n$115 Reception (6:30-7:30pm) + Reserved Section seat + Signed Book\nAdditional signed books available for purchase at event\n\n\nThe virtual version of this event airs on April 14\, 2025\, at 6pm PT/9PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days. Tickets include a signed book\nTickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the signed book)\nASL interpreter provided upon request.\nFree parking at the venue\n\n \nFrom the author of The Power of Habit\, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life. \nCharles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and the author of Supercommunicators\, The Power of Habit\, and Smarter Faster Better. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale University\, he is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences\, National Journalism\, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine\, and was the founding host of the Slate podcast How To! with Charles Duhigg. \n“This is not just a riveting read about how to understand others better. It’s also a revealing look at how to be understood. Charles Duhigg delivers a winning combination of stories\, studies\, and guidance that might well transform the worst communicators you know into some of the best.”—Adam Grant\, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential\, and host of the podcast Re:Thinking \n“Our personal and professional success depend upon our ability to understand and be understood\, and yet we typically leave this up to intuition. In Supercommunicators\, Charles Duhigg goes through a mountain of research—and some riveting stories—and unearths practical tactics to show that anyone can become a more effective listener\, speaker\, and even social media poster.”—David Epstein\, bestselling author of Range and The Sports Gene \nIn Supercommunicators\, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation. \nCommunication is a superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak\, we’re actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?)\, emotional (How do we feel?)\, and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having\, you’re unlikely to connect. \nSupercommunicators know the importance of recognizing—and then matching—each kind of conversation\, and how to hear the complex emotions\, subtle negotiations\, and deeply held beliefs that color so much of what we say and how we listen. Our experiences\, our values\, our emotional lives—and how we see ourselves\, and others—shape every discussion\, from who will pick up the kids to how we want to be treated at work. In this book\, you will learn why some people are able to make themselves heard\, and to hear others\, so clearly. \nWith his storytelling that takes us from the writers’ room of The Big Bang Theory to the couches of leading marriage counselors\, Duhigg shows readers how to recognize these three conversations—and teaches us the tips and skills we need to navigate them more successfully. \nIn the end\, he delivers a simple but powerful lesson: With the right tools\, we can connect with anyone.
URL:https://www.bookswell.club/event/an-evening-with-charles-duhigg/
LOCATION:The Ann and Jerry Moss Theater–New Roads School\, Herb Alpert Educational Village\, 3131 Olympic Blvd.\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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