God on the Brain: Role of faith, religion and spirituality on personal and collective wellbeing
Sucheta Kamath is honored to have been invited to speak at the IQRA Women’s Book Club. The name of our talk is, God on the Brain: Role of faith, religion and spirituality on personal and collective wellbeing.
She will discuss the evolution of human frontal-lobes has enabled us to do the right thing; particularly, when that right thing is really hard to do. The scientific studies on impact of religious belief on well-being show its substantial positive influence on coping with disease and adversity and general increase in lifespan. It is the faith, religion and spirituality that provides individuals the essential inner strength, attachment and security while promoting the maturity of frontal lobes unlocking moral reasoning.
Join Sucheta to understand the benefits of keeping the faith alive!
Bio: Sucheta Kamath is the founder and CEO of ExQ®, a TEDx speaker, and an award-winning speech-language pathologist. As an EdTech entrepreneur, Sucheta has created an innovative online digital curriculum that assesses and teaches 7-areas of Executive Function skills in children from grades 6 to 12 to help cultivate self-awareness and strategic thinking. In her weekly podcast “Full PreFrontal: Exposing the mysteries of Executive Function,” she interviews world-renowned experts across various fields including cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, education, contemplative science and business leadership and has produced more than 200 episodes and has an audience in more than 110 countries. Sucheta serves on many non-profit boards including the Leadership Atlanta and the National Multi-Faith initiative to End Mass Incarceration (EMI) and is deeply committed to racial healing and interfaith community dialogue. In addition, she co-founded a non-profit called the Georgia Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (GSHF) and has been instrumental in creating and leading a cost-free “Leadership through Communication” training program for Atlanta’s work-ready displaced community. Finally, Sucheta has a more than decade long meditation practice and is about to complete a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program from the Awareness Training Institute.
