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EXPERT ALERTS

• Charleston Church Shooting: Without Gun Control, Racism Will Keep Killing Black People
• How Doctors Can Read the Body Language and Micro-Expressions of Patients
• June is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Month
• Happiness: You Hold the Keys
• Shark Attacks: Should You Be Afraid to Go Into the Water?
• Five Secrets of Lasting Love
• What Our Kids Need to Succeed
• Surviving the Emotional Dark Age
• Drug Overdoses Spur Rise in Accidental Deaths

MEDIA JOBS

• Blog Editor – The Urban Institute (DC)
• Sports Editor – The Progress-Index (VA)
• News Reporter – Columbus Republic (IN)

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• What Makes a Successful Blogger?
• Math for Journalists: Six Helpful Resources
• 4 Reasons Publishers Are Embracing Branded Content

EXPERT ALERTS:

Charleston Church Shooting: Without Gun Control, Racism Will Keep Killing Black People
Lisa Durden
Host, Executive Producer
The Lisa Durden Show
"Mass shootings have become a banal fact of death in America. Last year there were 283 incidents in which four or more people were shot. The nation as a whole, meanwhile, has become newly sensitized to racial violence, with growing activism around police shootings The shooting of nine black churchgoers in Charleston by a white gunman in what police are treating as a 'hate crime' marks a doubling down on the nation's twin pathologies of racism and guns."
Durden is a sought after African-American pop culture/political commentator booked to share her "keep it real," "straight no chaser" view on all things hot topics. She appears on Fox 5 News Live at 6 p.m. with Ernie Anastos and as a regular expert guest on nationally syndicated network radio and shows like FOX 5's "The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet," FOXNews.com's "The Strategy Room," Comcast's "It's Your Call: With Lynn Doyle," My9 News and more.
Contact: Mark Goldman, [email protected]

How Doctors Can Read the Body Language and Micro-Expressions of Patients
Carl Christman
Mentalist and Communication Professor
"Patients are often hesitant to tell their doctors what they really think. They may be too embarrassed to share how they feel or don't want to admit that they don't understand. Being able to read the patient's body language and facial expressions make doctors more effective. These non-verbal cues frequently tell more about the patient's true feelings than what they say."
Christman is a teacher, author, and speaker. He plays with language, psychology and non-verbal communication to educate and entertain audiences. His best-selling book, "How to Read Minds and Influence People," explores communication from a radically different perspective. It unlocks the science of mind reading and helps people harness the power of persuasion. It offers readers the tools to relate to people and positively influence them. He is based in Los Angeles.
ProfNet Profile: http://www.profnetconnect.com/carlchristman
Website: http://www.carlchristman.com
Contact: [email protected]

June is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Month
Chris Cale, Ph.D.
Lecturer/Research Associate
Argosy University, Hawaii
"PTSD is becoming a very common acronym in our everyday language, and what's mostly ignored are the friends and families that are impacted directly and indirectly by the condition. It's an illusion to think that you have to deal with it alone, and there is no medal for bravery in being someone who shares life with a PTSD sufferer."
Dr. Cale is a university lecturer, former school principal, counselor and marriage family child therapist with more than 22 years of experience helping families and individuals effectively end stress, recognizing hidden patterns and how to negate their impact on personal effectiveness. His role as a senior mentor with JohnBenzie World Class Mentoring has him at the forefront of personal and professional development with executives and leaders throughout the world.
Contact: [email protected]

Happiness: You Hold the Keys
David Cunningham, M.Ed
Communication Expert and Seminar Leader
Landmark
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic recently said they have cracked the code to being happy. What does that mean for everyone? Says Cunningham: "A key is to understand that the things we say -- both out loud and to ourselves -- shape our emotions and how we see the world and view others. Clear, effective communication requires us to hear what is really being said, as opposed to what we may add to what is said based on our experiences or our view of life. It is this distinguishing of what's really been said from what is added that gives us real power."
Cunningham is a senior program leader and a Landmark Forum leader with Landmark. He has successfully led programs to hundreds of thousands of people around the world since 1991. He earned a Master's in Education from Connecticut State University and a Bachelor's in Education from the University of Connecticut. Before he began leading programs for Landmark, he served as the director of the Connecticut Justice for Children Collaboration and the director of Chapter Development for the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse. He can discuss the Mayo Clinic study findings and share how to use communication skills; make amends and have a fresh start; create a job you love; change perceptions to create love; distinguish between what people say and what we have it mean; and communicate in ways that build intimacy.
ProfNet Profile: http://www.profnetconnect.com/david_cunningham
Contact: Michelle Tennant, [email protected]

Shark Attacks: Should You Be Afraid to Go Into the Water?
Dr. Frieda Birnbaum
Research Psychologist, Psychoanalyst
A 12-year-old girl and a teenage boy each lost an arm in separate shark attacks in North Carolina that witnesses described as like "a scene from "Jaws." The female victim had her left arm amputated at the elbow and could still lose a leg, while the 16-year-old boy lost his arm below the shoulder, officials confirmed. Says Dr. Birnbaum: "According to the International Shark Attack File, you're 30 times more likely to be killed by lightning and three times more likely to drown at the beach than die from a shark attack. Because of the of the popularization of films like 'Jaws' and because the media tends to devote lots of coverage to shark attacks when they occur, one might conclude that these events happen much more frequently than they actually do. That being said, you should not be afraid to go into the water. Fear can be positive when it diverts us from engaging in a potentially dangerous activity, but fear can also be negative when it paralyzes us into engaging a pleasurable activity like swimming. If you do have a fear of water and you are afraid of sharks, it might be helpful to talk to both a counselor and even a marine biologist. You can utilize your fear as a motivational tool for education on this matter."
Based in the New York metro area, Dr. Birnbaum is the author of "What Price Power: An In-Depth Study of the Professional Woman in a Relationship." She's an expert on depression, women's issues, and attaining happiness, and has been featured on "Oprah" and "20/20"as the oldest woman in the U.S. to have twins.
Contact: Ryan McCormick, [email protected]

Five Secrets of Lasting Love
Gay Hendricks, Ph.D.
Relationship Expert
Hendricks Institute
"With about half of marriages ending in divorce, what can people do to spark long-term love and commitment in their relationships? Many couples who are successful in cultivating lasting love view marriage and long-term partnerships as an opportunity for self-actualization and personal fulfillment. They share a sense of healthy responsibility, greet challenges as opportunities for growth, and maintain flexibility and adaptability. This is what I and my wife of 35 years, Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., call re-committing."
Relationship experts Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks have been married 35 years, worked together for 30 years, and authored over 30 books, including their bestselling "Conscious Loving." They have made it their life's work to help people create healthy, thriving love relationships, and in their groundbreaking new book, "Conscious Loving Ever After," they set their sights on supporting those in midlife and beyond in committing and recommitting to relationship wellness. They can share research-backed secrets for deepening long-term love, including: 1) Commitment and re-commitment: Lasting relationships use wholehearted commitment as a place to come home to and to steer the relationship. 2) Shifting from blame to wonder: When issues or differences arise, lasting relationships cultivate and use the wonder move rather than the popular blame move. 3) Emotional transparency: People in lasting relationships savor their inner experiences and communicate them easily to each other. 4) Appreciation: Partners engaged in lasting relationships understand that the flow of love is most quickly enhanced by the ongoing and multi-faceted practice of appreciating. 5) Creativity: Lasting relationships fuel their creativity and co-creativity with the free attention and flow of love that allows them to co-create. Instead of pushing against each other, they join to move powerfully in chosen directions.
ProfNet Profile: http://www.profnetconnect.com/gayandkathlynhendricks
Contact: Michelle Tennant, [email protected]

What Our Kids Need to Succeed
Barnet Bain
Creativity Expert
Our educational system often fails to value creativity, as when art, drama and music classes are constantly cut to save money. Barnet can discuss why our schools, from kindergarten to universities, need a new focus on developing the lifelong skills of creative thinking: "The work that children are going to be looking at in 10 years is not going to look anything like it does now. Anything that can be automated will be automated. Anything that can be computerized will be computerized. It's not going to look like anything we can conceive from here. So what are we preparing these children for? If we're not preparing them to fire up a skill set of creativity, then we will not be serving them at all. What's needed is a curriculum that generates intimacy with the skills of creativity."
Bain is an award-winning motion picture producer and director, radio broadcaster, educator and creativity expert, and author of "The Book of Doing and Being" (Atria, 2015). Select film credits include Oscar-winner "What Dreams May Come" (producer); Emmy-Award nominee, Outstanding TV Movie, "Homeless to Harvard" (executive producer); "The Celestine Prophecy" (writer, producer); "Jesus" (aka The Jesus Film) (writer); and "The Lost and Found Family" (director). Upcoming productions include "Milton's Secret," based on the book by Eckhart Tolle and Robert Friedman; "Illusions," based on the novel by Richard Bach and directed by Zack Snyder ("300," "Man of Steel"); and the documentary feature "When I Was Young I Said I Would Be Happy: The Story of Project LIGHT Rwanda," currently in post-production.
ProfNet Profile: http://www.profnetconnect.com/barnetbain
Contact: Michelle Tennant, [email protected]

Surviving the Emotional Dark Age
Teal Swan
Emotional Expert
Teal Eye, LLC
We are living in an age of deep emotional ignorance. It affects everything from our relationships to our ability to connect with and understand the world around us, to our physical health. Swan can discuss how to get back in touch with our emotions and survive this Emotional Dark Age: "Healing from trauma is a process. It takes time and it can be incredibly difficult to know where to start. The first thing I would teach somebody who is dealing with trauma is to get back in touch with their emotions, to literally learn how to sink into them and sit with them and use their emotions as an access to heal the aspects of themselves that are still wounded. I would ask them to decide that the most important thing in the world is how they feel, and to make happiness the number one goal of their entire life. Now, that sounds very 'face value,' but it's a lot more complicated than people would make it out to be because, obviously, if you're going to live according to happiness, you've got to stop living according to the things you think are going to make you happy and live according to how you feel instead, so your whole life will look different."
Swan's new Hay House Publishing book, "Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of Self-Love Through Your Darkest Times," is a beacon of hope for anyone who has suffered trauma, struggled with fear or who lost touch with their authentic emotional self.
ProfNet Profile: http://www.profnetconnect.com/teal-swan
Contact: Michelle Tennant, [email protected]

Drug Overdoses Spur Rise in Accidental Deaths
Kyle Simon
Director of Policy and Advocacy
Center for Lawful Access and Abuse Deterrence (CLAAD)
"Accidental deaths are up in the United States, and the leading cause may surprise many people: It's drug overdoses, according to a new report. Drug overdose deaths have doubled in the past 14 years, and now more people die from accidental overdoses than in road accidents in most U.S. states. Drug overdoses killed 44,000 people in 2013. More than half of these deaths (51.8 percent) were related to prescription drugs, with more than 16,000 deaths related to prescription painkillers, and nearly 7,000 related to anxiety and sleep medications."
In his role, Simon manages policy and advocacy initiatives, provides policy analysis and drafting, directs rapid response efforts, and oversees a coalition of allied organizations focused on advancing common goals. His background includes several years of health care policy, advocacy, and political experience. He has worked with policy makers on Medicare, Medicaid, and regulatory issues, served members of Congress, managed a statewide political organization representing the president of the United States, and held leadership roles in multiple political campaigns.
Contact: Mark Goldman, [email protected]

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