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SUMMARY:Michelle Lim - The Lonely Generation
LOCATION:Upstairs at Gleebooks
DESCRIPTION:6pm for 6.30pm Monday 12th October\n\nMichelle Lim in conversat
 ion with Heath Ducker\n\nEssential reading for all parents\, The Lonely Ge
 neration sounds the alarm on a looming public health crisis within younger
  people – and provides empowering\, practical steps to build a healthier
 \, more connected world for our children.\n\nYounger generations are beari
 ng the brunt of social media\, big tech and rising costs. Their mental hea
 lth has gone into freefall with higher rates of anxiety\, depression and s
 elf-harm. How do we untangle the knots that keep them trapped in feelings 
 of loneliness?\n\nAssociate Professor Michelle Lim is Australia’s leadin
 g expert on loneliness. She shows us how we got here and what can be done 
 about this public health emergency.\n\nDrawing on the latest research in p
 sychology\, sociology and neuroscience\, The Lonely Generation is an agend
 a- setting investigation into the profound impacts of loneliness on young 
 people\, and how parents and educators can work to form networks and cultu
 res that foster deep\, meaningful social connection.\n\nIt’s not too lat
 e to turn back the clock and give our kids the safe\, healthy\, free child
 hoods they deserve.\n\n\nMichelle Lim is the CEO and Scientific Chair of E
 nding Loneliness Together\, a national peak body addressing persistent lon
 eliness and social isolation in Australia. She is also an associate profes
 sor at the Prevention Research Collaboration\, Sydney School of Public Hea
 lth at the University of Sydney. Michelle is considered the leading Austra
 lian scientific expert in loneliness\, and her work informs governments an
 d the not-for- profit and corporate sectors across the world. In 2024\, sh
 e was appointed as one of 20 global experts on the Technical Advisory Grou
 p to the World Health Organization Commission to Social Connection. She is
  a practising clinical psychologist with over 22 years’ experience.\n\nH
 eath Ducker has served as a lawyer at a leading law firm\, an advisor to t
 he NSW Attorney General\, led the very youth charity that changed his own 
 life as CEO\, and is now an Executive at Teach For Australia\, combating e
 ducational inequity. Heath is the recipient of the Davos' Australia Leader
 ship Award. He was listed as one of Australia’s Top 50 Emerging Leaders 
 by Start-Up Daily and was a finalist in the BOSS Magazine/Sydney Universit
 y\, Emerging Leaders Award. He is the author of A Room at The Top.\n\nBole
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