• Heart of the Amazon
• The Laws of the Jungle
Author of Heart of the Amazon, Yossi Ghinsberg is one of the most exciting speakers you are likely to encounter anywhere today. His message is universal and inspirational - his manner soothing and reassuring, his style unassuming yet absorbing and most importantly, his messages can be taken further.
In the midst of the uncharted Amazon, after losing his three companions, a young Israeli traveler is tested to the extreme through three harrowing weeks of sheer survival. He lives to tell the amazing story as well as how the ordeal profoundly affected his understanding of himself and his life purpose.
Sharing his experiences with audiences around the world, Yossi is a riveting storyteller. Reliving his ordeal, he sweeps audiences into the depths of the primordial jungle and has them experience the challenges of survival, adapting to change and dealing with adversity from a calm and centered place within.
Born and raised in Israel, Yossi served three years in the Israeli Navy on the Red Sea. During these years he befriended the Bedouin of the Sinai desert and was greatly influenced by their philosophy and nomadic lifestyle.
After the service Yossi ventured the world as a backpacker traveling for two years mainly in South America.
Returning to Israel Yossi graduated from Tel Aviv University in Israel with Philosophy and Business degrees.
In 1986 Yossi released the international bestseller Heart of the Amazon, translated into 6 languages and published in 15 countries.
In 1992, Yossi returned to the Amazon to initiate The Chalalan Project proving that the best strategy to conserve biodiversity is sustainable development in cooperation with indigenous forest dwellers. Chalalan is one of the most celebrated Eco-Tourism resorts in the Amazon.
The projects Yossi initiated in the Bolivian rainforest helped to form the biggest nature reserve in the Amazon, known as The Madidi National Park. His work on the protection of intellectual properties and sustainable development of the Amazon won him international acclaim from such organizations as Conservation International, the World Resources Institute and The Inter-American Development Bank among others.
Yossi is the founder and director of EthnoBios S.A. a biodiversity prospecting company that is based in Bolivia.
In 1995 Yossi went through a major career change as he was recruited to and appointed Vice President of The Center for Investigation & Treatment of Addiction (CITA). Yossi promoted a new approach to treatment of opiate addiction, establishing 12 treatment and research centers around the world from Mexico to China.
In 1999, based in Australia, Yossi founded 'The Alma Libre Foundation', dedicated to assisting opiate addicts in their reintegration to society.
In 2001 during the peak of the Palestinian intifada, Yossi returned to Israel as CEO of a reconciliation festival. Despite the escalation of violence in the region, the festival managed to attract unprecedented audiences. Spiritual leaders of both Islam and Judaism conducted special prayers for peace. Musicians from around the world came to perform and support the cause.
Early in 2002 Yossi has launched a web based self-help site under the name philosphyinaction.com the first program on the site is an innovative interactive smoking cessation program.
In between projects Yossi's passion is directed at exploration of remote corners of the planet, guided by the Atlas only, he still explores the uncharted. His travels brought him to the islands of Papua New Guinea and Madagascar to the sub continents of India and China and to many other places of inspiration.
Yossi is an internationally sought after public speaker. He currently is writing a new inspirational book, while continuing his travels around the world for business and personal explorations.
Yossi has a wonderful spirit and an incredible talent for storytelling. He is unique in his delivery and audiences walk away amazed. They find the key points in Yossi's talk are not just put in a list to them but they relive Yossi's experiences and really come to realization of them as Yossi did during his adventure. His accent tends to make audiences lean in and listen more intently. This combined with his storytelling talent keeps people on the edge of their seats wondering what's going to happen next.
Yossi says that the problem with life may be that it is not tough enough. When a moment of real struggle emerges, we naturally tap into our survival resources and find ourselves ready to fight. It is the day-to-day life with the mundane problems that can grind us. How do we rise to the challenge to live everyday of our life as if it was our last? Can we tap into our dormant inner resources? How can we bring radiating intensity to our thoughts, words and actions? An incredible storyteller and author, Yossi provides insight into the nature of survival and how life it is to be celebrated and taken to the highest level.
We are survivors by nature. We have the power! We just need to be reminded that we can always tap into it and draw upon it when challenges arise be it life and death threat or a day to day issue. You can look at something as extreme as 911 or Yossi's experience or the courage we all try to find day to day to call the next client or move to the next level.
TOPICS:
• The Power to Survive
• The Laws of the Jungle: Jaguars Don’t Need Self-help Books
• Sailing the Seas of Change
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TOPIC DESCRIPTIONS:
The Power to Survive
After a tragic separation from his friends, one man is lost alone for weeks in the heart of the Amazon with no food or weapons in the midst of the worst rainy season in decades. Through this amazing experience Yossi Ghinsberg penetrates a new level of understanding of life and himself.
A master storyteller, Yossi takes his audiences on an emotional experience of inner strength and self-discovery.
This keynote presentation is based on Yossi’s international bestseller Jungle, now also a documentary by the acclaimed producers of ‘Touching the Void’ and the Discovery Channel.
Apart from the sheer excitement and thrill of Yossi's presentation his delivery encourages audiences to review and reevaluate their own personal and professional circumstances. Audiences are empowered to adapt to circumstances with a sense of adventure. Yossi believes we are co-creators of our reality and hence fear and worry are not likely to improve any situation, however right action can always be taken. Adversity is part of life; being a victim a matter of choice.
Yossi feels there is an inherent hero in each one of us ready to emerge; there exists a well of wisdom far greater than our own knowledge ready to be made available. Never, ever give up for life is never short of a miracle.
The Laws of the Jungle: Jaguars Don’t Need Self-help Books
The only species that separates and alienates itself from nature is our own. Isolated in that seclusion we either try to dominate nature or protect ourselves from it.
Yossi asks his audience to expand their horizon and see ‘the big picture’. Our life has become ‘life in a box’ and we've forgotten that it is our birth right to be and feel part of our planet and the entire universe we live in.
A master practitioner of corporate spirituality, Yossi Ghinsberg introduces this pioneering work of incorporating principles and guidelines from nature, the natural world, the planet as a whole and the cosmos and draws their relation to the management of our personal and professional lives.
Audiences are intrigued by the unique cutting-edge human thinking that provokes and challenges the conventional, suggesting an alternative outlook on life and a new path of action toward wellbeing and success. Empowering and encouraging, Yossi’s ‘Laws of the Jungle’ teaches that we are the co-creators of this life, assuming responsibility will yield power, what we tend to resist persists, acquiring a new perspective and casting our vision upon the future will form a new path.
Yossi’s 'Laws of the Jungle' are well researched and source from an array of interdisciplinary sciences and fields, such as quantum physics, Buddhism, Kabala, anthropology and environmental sciences. Nevertheless most of the insights can be discerned through simple contemplations and observations of nature.
Having lived in the Amazon rainforest for three years and now living in the Australian rainforest, Yossi knows how to bring to life the natural world and relate it to an audience in a fascinating way.
The teaching of the 'Laws of the Jungle' to audiences has a tremendous and direct impact, bringing breakthroughs and transformations to both individuals and organizations.
This topic is highly entertaining due to Yossi’s ability to tell stories and create mind images with his audiences, and at the same time the material can only be described as life-changing
Sailing the Seas of Change
‘It is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change.’
Charles Darwin
The famous adage says: ‘change is the only constant’. Indeed it is impermanence that is the essence of our existence in a word that is always in flux. As inherent and inevitable as change is, it is perceived by many individuals and organizations as a problem.
Accepting change as a natural phenomenon is the basis of sanity, knowing how to flow with the change is the greatest of virtues. This is the most basic and relevant wisdom that can help us better manage our lives.
Understanding change; welcoming change; adapting to change; not clinging to passing experiences; going through changes and adversity maintaining responsibility and power - all this is possible when an understanding and acceptance of change is incorporated into one’s life.
Quite paradoxically when such understanding is inherent, change ceases to seem so personal. There is no aversion to trouble and no clinging to fleeting pleasure. Instead there is acceptance of the new circumstances and an adaptation based on action.
The other and more common path of resisting change, chasing fleeting phenomena and being its victim comes from ignorance and promotes a sense of helplessness followed by involuntary reaction.
Surrendering to the power of change doesn't mean one is helpless or powerless, on the contrary change always represents opportunity for growth.
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