Wednesday, April 06, 2011

TEDxDUCTAC - Dr. Menis Yousry - The Social Brain

Menis Yousry is a systems and family psychologist who specializes in personal growth technologies - he is founder of the Essence Foundation, a a non-profit personal development organization staffed almost entirely by volunteers. They offer a variety of personal development courses.
Dr. Yousry delivers a lecture on the relationship between our conscious and unconscious memories as a cause of conflict between human intentions and actions. Specifically, the lecture focuses on how the social brain influences identity, and defines 'Who We Think We Are' as an image that is often distinctly different from whom we really are.


Dr Menis Yousry

Founder and lead facilitator of the Essence Foundation, Dr Yousry is a Family & Systemic Psychotherapist and Psychologist with BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from the University of London. He worked as a Family Therapist supervisor within the National Health Service for twelve years.

Over the last 20 years he has designed and facilitated personal development courses in the USA, UK, Bulgaria, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, Germany and Russia, appearing on television and radio.

Essence
By weaving together his interest in human potential, art, culture and developmental psychology with a thorough grounding in research he developed a simple, sensitive and unique approach to personal development – an approach grounded in transferring intellectual and theoretical understanding to our day-to-day living experience.
Read more at the Foundation website.

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