As a Featured Hour of 24 Hours of Compassion
Join this Talk & Meditation with Deepak Chopra
Join Deepak Chopra, founder of The Chopra Foundation and senior scientist at The Gallup Organization, Karenna Gore, director of the Center for Earth Ethics, and bestselling author Kabir Sehgal as they examine the nature of peace… whether peace is possible amid the widespread polarization in our society, and the connection between individual compassion and health and collective wellbeing and peace. They contemplate the nature of human security, and the possibility that war will ever end.
During this engaging session, you’ll discover:
- The illusion of separation that perpetuates humanity’s greatest challenges — climate disruption, poverty & war
- How the transformation of human consciousness can lead to a culture of peace & nonviolence
- What you can do to create peace in your own life, and in the world
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Chopra is the author of more than 85 books translated into over 43 languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Two of his books, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (1993) and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1995) have been recognized on The Books of The Century Bestsellers List.
TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” The World Post and Huffington Post global internet survey ranked Dr. Chopra #40 influential thinker in the world and #1 in Medicine. Chopra serves as the Co founder of Jiyo, Founder of The Chopra Well on YouTube, Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Assistant Clinical Professor, in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of California, San Diego, Health Sciences, Faculty at Walt Disney Imagineering and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization. He is also on the advisory board of We, The World.
Karenna Gore
Karenna Gore is Director of the Center for Earth Ethics and is the eldest daughter of former US Vice President Al Gore and Tipper Gore. She is an attorney, advocate, writer, and educator who has worked in the legal center of Sanctuary for Families, as Director of Community Affairs for the Association to Benefit Children, and on the editorial staff of Slate magazine. She is the author of Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America, and in June 2016, Karenna was among 23 protesters who were arrested for demonstrating at the construction site of the Spectra pipeline in Boston.
Kabir Sehgal
Kabir Sehgal is an American author, composer, producer, navy officer, a military veteran, investment banker, and financial executive. He works in corporate strategy at First Data Corporation, a global payments technology firm, which completed the largest IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in 2015. He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of five books including A Bucket of Blessings and Coined. He has also won two Grammy Awards and a Latin Grammy Award as a record producer. He was previously a vice president at JPMorgan Chase. He is a co-author with Deepak Chopra of a book entitled Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome: Poems & Songs Inspired by American Immigrants.
Sehgal has won two Grammy & one Latin Grammy Awards, and his productions have garnered 8 nominations and 5 wins. Sehgal is a composer, librettist, and musician who wrote an opera on the European financial crisis. He co-founded an arts nonprofit organization that merged with the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance.
Sehgal is a US Navy veteran and a reserve officer who served on active duty with special operations in the Middle East, and he received the Defense Meritorious Service Medal. He served as a speechwriter on a presidential campaign and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
