HUDDLE 2020 WITH MINDSHARE

At the Turning the Tables Conference, young people who have been through hell (cancer patients, refugees, people with dyslexia and autism, transgender youth, ex-prisoners) teach us what their life experience has taught them. As an introduction to this Huddle session, Kay Scorah will tell some stories of how diverse thinking has helped scientific researchers, urban terrorism specialists and food suppliers to save lives. We’ll then open it up to the panel of Turning the Tables speakers to talk and answer questions on how we can learn from their life experiences. Our panel of 4 is made up of:

Naqeeb Saïde. Forced to flee his home and leave his family in Afghanistan, arriving alone in England at the age of 16.

Corey Lee Bird. How do you survive when the one person who is supposed to love you unconditionally rejects who you are, to the point of physical violence?

Varun Mahatme. What happens when your perfect life is shattered by a cancer diagnosis when you are in your early teens?

Elizabeth Arifien creates solutions without words. She uses her dyslexia to show that words are not the only way to work things out.