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Ode to Melancholy

A 1.25 hour presentation from Genevieve Schreier

Happiness is easy to yearn for, both for ourselves, and especially, our loved ones. Who doesn’t want those they love to be happy? We seek it, strive for it, welcome it—we have even built a multi-million-dollar industry around its pursuit. Yet happiness is but one of many human feelings. By the very same token, its counterpart, sadness, is avoided, escaped, and even feared. By negating sadness and melancholy, are we missing the very key ingredient in the unfolding of human potential? In this presentation, Genevieve pays tribute to melancholy, making a case for changing our perspective on sadness and enabling us to come alongside this much-maligned feeling—both in our loved ones and in ourselves.

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