Inaburra Founders Lectures 2023
Lecture No 2. Raising Hope and Resilience in Young People
Speaker - Leisa Aitken

Hope is essential for a flourishing life but in our anxious and overwhelmed post-pandemic world, many are struggling to be hopeful. What can we do to nurture hope in ourselves and in young people?

Join Leisa Aitken as she explores recent psychological research as well as the wisdom of philosophers and theologians through history on the nature of hope, what is currently hindering our experience of it, and practical strategies to foster it.

Leisa is a clinical psychologist, working in private practice. She has more than 20 years experience in counselling and also supervising in psychiatric hospitals and providing workplace support. She has spoken at many schools and churches with the aim of applying psychological research to real life dilemmas. She is about to finish a PhD on the psychology of hope, which incorporates philosophical and theological reflections of hope with her own research on hope in Australian society.

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