Walking and talking in London’s Tottenham Court Road with David Pearl, performance artist, innovation maven and creative confidant to top business figures.
We’d just finished recording a podcast together (released soon) and this was a bit of an experiment….
Title: Frantic Family Rescue
TV Channel: ABC 1 (Australia only)
Across the globe, where money and opportunity collide, childhood is now a race to perfection. With children expected to pile up academic, artistic and athletic achievements, parenting has come to resemble a cross between a competitive sport and product development.
Result: many modern families are stretched to breaking point.
Enter Carl Honoré, the world’s leading advocate of the Slow Movement. His mission: to slow down the pace of family life to make children (and parents) happier, healthier and more successful.
In ABC TV’s Frantic Family Rescue, Carl has four weeks to reboot three high-octane Australian families. It’s a crash course where parents and kids go cold turkey – stepping off the treadmill of rushing, busyness, screen-addiction and constant striving. For a whole month, they are forced to unplug their gadgets, tear up their schedules and do things for the sheer joy of them rather than because they might look good on a CV.
Do the three families heed Carl’s advice and reap the benefits? Or is there no turning back from our frantic lifestyles?
Tune in to find out….
One of the many tips and techniques you’ll find in Carl’s online course:
Hurry Less. Achieve More. Live Better – Harness the Power of Slow
Take a peek behind the scenes of Carl’s new TV show on ABC 1 in Australia.
Here is the synopsis:
Across the globe, where money and opportunity collide, childhood is now a race to perfection. With children expected to pile up academic, artistic and athletic achievements, parenting has come to resemble a cross between a competitive sport and product development.
Result: many modern families are stretched to breaking point.
Enter Carl Honoré, the world’s leading advocate of the Slow Movement. His mission: to slow down the pace of family life to make children (and parents) happier, healthier and more successful.
In ABC TV’s Frantic Family Rescue, Carl has four weeks to reboot three high-octane Australian families. It’s a crash course where parents and kids go cold turkey – stepping off the treadmill of rushing, busyness, screen-addiction and constant striving. For a whole month, they are forced to unplug their gadgets, tear up their schedules and do things for the sheer joy of them rather than because they might look good on a CV.
Do the three families heed Carl’s advice and reap the benefits? Or is there no turning back from our frantic lifestyles?
Tune in to find out….
Talking about the Slow revolution on a chat show. This is the first of two segments. Not surprisingly, the first segment is entitled “Slow on a Chat Show 1.”
Talking about the Slow revolution on a chat show. The second segment (Slow on a Chat Show 2) contains tips for slowing down…
This is a one-hour video interview I did with the CBC’s Michael Enright in front of a live audience in Toronto. It was a highlight of my 2013 tour for The Slow Fix. The interview was later boiled down to 30 minutes and broadcast on CBC Radio’s flagship program, Sunday Morning.
In 2013, I spoke at the WorldBlu conference in Denver, Colorado. WorldBlu promotes freedom and democracy in the workplace.
The idea is that people and organisations work better when they leave behind the old command-and-control approach.
This is an interview I gave shortly after delivering my keynote.
A Skype interview I gave from my kitchen. The subject: The Slow Fix and what it means for parenting.