How we talk to our children becomes their inner voice | Mike King | TEDxManukau
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- It was a spate of youth suicides (five) that took former stand-up comedian Mike King to a school in the far north where he shared his experience of drug and alcohol addiction, and recovery. Though his audience were receptive, he noted a lingering tension in the room. Students told him they were frustrated at being given pre-packaged solutions from visiting “experts”. Mike stressed the importance that youth be involved in creating their own pathways towards help, and urged parents to more consciously communicate with their children.
For years Mike has been known up and down the country as Mike King, the Kiwi comedian, but that role changed dramatically in 2009 with the birth of ‘The Nutters Club’, his award winning radio and TV show discussing all things related to mental health.
This transition subsequently resulted in The Key to Life Charitable Trust, of which Mike is the Ambassador. He travels the length and breadth of NZ giving up his free time to ensure our youth have the opportunity to hear his message and enable them to embark on their own positive journeys in life.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Morena Mike, my name is Meykara Ngagara, and I think your amazing in the way you deliver and I am so proud that we have some one for our people for future reference, and of your telepathy to connect and understand the nature in which we tune our minds to think. I wish I was more like you and your research of facts to quaint inside the feelings towards mental unwell. I myself am a Psychologist but I often find myself going back to you're very talks for remission and support advice. LuVu@always Mike King.
Mike King came to my school. He talked about the inner critic. It opened my eyes. It made me and about 50% of the students in the auditorium at the time cry, we all felt connected to what he had to say in all sorts of different ways.
Thanks Mike King for your story. X
This is awesome
Most of my work is like yourself (Volunteer work), and I have established a lot of relationships in that way, and also global! Keep up the choice you are Mike, Kia kaha ra kei konei Arohanui ki a koe. I also, went through it here online *Meaning* being assessed myself of just how' much I knew...And, just like you' Mike King. Look at it noW''''Ooowe.
Good on him ! Have never really been big on stand up comedy however i respect him for what he is doing for young people Maori in particular need a voice in suicide prevention.
MENTAL HEALTH AND UNWELL BEING: I think that the Mental Health has been very slack in their delivery of the cognitive unwell and needs to be more coherent and adhesive to the calls off mental well being. By, looking more towards the defects, and in enabling them.
Empowering is exactly right Mike. Amen.
The girl said "You got a big head" he said "that's not the only big thing I got"
Owe my school full of kids ages 10-13 Cracked up laughing had a mean time listening to him come to whanganui intermidiate again
We taught our 12 tamariki that antithesis in human reason process guaranteed intellectual certainty. We understand all things on the same basis. We know that the sciences cannot go here. When it comes to thinking problems, science is blind. They can't explain the existence of personality or thinking. What is mental health then?
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REAL TALK
He came to my school
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But worth the listen