Chasing meaning is better for you than avoiding discomfort

27 August 201928 August 2019Angelina Leave a comment

This remains a little diamond of a talk. Treasure it.

(Is that why I just made small donations toward Gina Miller’s case and to Jo Maugham’s case?)

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I am not a desk jockey, am jargon-averse and have three modes of reasoning: scholarly / theoretical / pensive (thinker) + practical / (pro)active / energetic (doer) + tired / private (“off“).

Below are a few bits and pieces about me.

Academia.edu

Amazon

Author

Amsterdam American Business Club

Member April 2003 – end 2008

COVID-19: APHA, NAM, STAT, etc

2020: Various NAM/APHA webinars that count as CE, including topics like health disparities
2020: Various webinars (STAT, Digital Digest, My Life My Say etc) about topics such as also the food situation in the UK

Geochemical Society (US-based)

Newsletter editor Dec 1998 – Feb 2010

Law (English): HarvardX Law School (EDX), pro se/LIP (UK) etc

2015: From Trust to Promise to Contract

ResearchGate

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Royal Netherlands Chemical Society

Board member Environmental Chemistry (and Toxicology) Section Mar 2001 – Sep 2004

Taking the Lead

Advanced Learners Course 2010-2011 (Take Part)
Member Portsmouth Environmental Forum Mar 2009 – Aug 2010 (dismantled)

Toastmasters International

Member Toastmasters of The Hague Apr 2003 – Jul 2004

Udemy

Bioethics – the ethics of everyday life

Various other organisations besides KNCV (#12421) such as Dutch KNGMG, American Society for Microbiology (#55207518) and American Geophysical Union

Former member, for 10 to 20 years; I let go of my memberships some time after I moved to the UK

Doing fieldwork in Sweden. The year was 1989, I think. I lost that coffee thermos at the end of 2010.

Same day in Sweden, doing geological fieldwork.

One of my fieldwork areas in Spain (1980s)

Me emigrating to the US on 2 January 1994. Location: Schiphol.

Me emigrating to the US – with two cats – on 2 January 1994, my siblings and a bunch of my friends sending me off.

Me emigrating to Florida on 2 January 1994, when I was 33.

That’s the photo taken for my university ID in Florida in 1994. I was 33 then and having the time of my life.

Beach cleanup in Florida with the marine science department (1995)

I convened an AGU conference session in Boston in 1998 and met up with a friend after the conference. Before the conference, I stopped by at WHOI. I was based in Amsterdam then and had become self-employed.

MC Nieuws editorial team meeting at WUR in 2003 (me on the right)

This is me (on the left), at our annual Environmental Chemistry symposium shortly before I relocated to the UK.

Boat trip near Arnhem with Arcadis Elements team in 2003 or 2004 (me on the left, holding a glass of wine)

Me as a former homeless woman in Portsmouth, in early 2011, receiving the “Taking the Lead” course certificate from the mayor. My income had tanked and I lost my home during the course.

All over the world, people were losing their homes at the time because of the sub prime mortgage crisis in banking. I, however, became the target of, well, let’s call it community bullying of all kinds, including extensive hacking.

It didn’t stop after I lost my home. It got worse. What drives English people to do such things to random strangers has a lot to do with inequality and appearances (perceived – i.e. often merely imagined – weaknesses).

This image exemplifies much of life in England, where I’ve been since the end of 2004. Bullying, hacking etc of random strangers is completely accepted, the law is often seen as something that only fools abide by, child sex abuse is quite common too and many people here consider kindness daft and cruelty cool, the government often setting the tone. Where does that come from? And is it really all as black and white as it seems? I want to know. I explored it in my book “Is cruelty cool?” which was released on 31 August 2020.

Since 18 September 2020, I call myself an anti community bullying and anti workplace bullying activist. See https://angelinasouren.com/2020/09/18/how-is-workplace-bullying-affecting-your-business/

For an example of community bullying, watch this documentary: https://vimeo.com/149993525

Bijan “Ben” Ebrahimi was forced to keep to himself as a result of relentless community bullying in Bristol. He was not a loner. Mr Ebrahimi was eventually killed and set on fire with the cooperation of Bristol City Council and Somerset & Avon Police. None of it should ever have happened. This kind of community bullying also goes on in Portsmouth.

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Angelina Souren – one of Portsmouth's anti community bullying and anti workplace bullying activists – wants you to think about what a more inclusive, healthier world might look like that allows people to be happy and flourish.

She has a question for you (and for all English politicians, incl. city councillors). Does cruelty really give you edge?

Chasing meaning is better for you than avoiding discomfort

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