How many times have you asked someone how they are - and they have said “fine”? In this brave and heart-warming TEDx talk, Alan Bec, an international coach and educator, reveals his fascination with how we can create more meaningful social wellbeing through communication and interaction. And as someone suffering from chronic illness, what happens when we stop communicating.
He’s someone who knows a lot about fluctuating energy and how hard it can be to communicate physical and mental pain. His life was disrupted beyond recognition when he contracted Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 2011. The effect and devastation this had on his self-identity, family and social status changed everything. He found himself learning something new: what it’s like to experience 'social death'.
But, one night he had a remarkable dream, involving numbers as a way of communicating his ill-being. The next morning, the Wellbeing Indicator Badge ® - the-wib ® was born.
In his TEDxBristol talk he explores the symbolism and science of numbered energy levels, delivered on the day with grace and humour, despite his status as a ‘4’. He shares how he found a disruptive healing solution by talking in numbers, and why you don't have to be ill to improve communication using this method.
