The power of love | Cindi Gilliland | TEDxClaremontGraduateUniversity

Love has the power to transform us, others, and the world. Psychologist Cindi Gilliland describes the important benefits of love and shares her personal journey toward greater love using the three steps of AMA: Attend, Mend, and Ascend. Dr. Cindi Gilliland received her Ph.D. in social psychology at Michigan State University in 1992. She has taught 20,000 undergraduate, graduate, and executive students in her thirty-four-year university career. She is currently a Clinical Full Professor of Organizational Psychology in the Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University (CGU), and President of Gilliland Consulting, a management consulting firm in San Diego. Cindi is also a university award-winning Professor of Practice Emeritus in the Management and Organizations Department at The University of Arizona. Cindi's professional interests include resilience, well-being, love, and positive relationships. She has been married to Dr. Stephen Gilliland for 31 years, and they have two adult children, Austin, 30, a Senior Associate at Breakthrough Properties in London, UK, and Caitlin, 27, a Ph.D. student in clinical neuropsychology at UCSD/SDSU in San Diego, CA. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx