Did you know that curiosity is your superpower? Maximize your capacity for connection, healing, and personal growth with this conversation and book signing with Scott Shigeoka, author of SEEK: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World which Adam Grant calls a “timely bridge for our divided world.” Copies of Scott's book, SEEK will be for sale by Arch. 

Political blow-ups, vaccine controversy, religious freedom, climate change, gender rights—division, loneliness, and polarization have ripped us apart. Our friendships are strained, teams at work can't find common ground, families are divided, and healing feels out of reach… but it doesn’t have to.

Internationally-recognized curiosity expert Scott Shigeoka knows that the radical practice of Deep Curiosity, rooted in a desire to understand ourselves and others beneath the surface, holds our only path to connection and transformation.

This practice serves us in both our careers as creative professionals, but also in our lives—as we work toward strengthening our relationships with others and even ourselves.

Whether you want to save a relationship, find a sense of purpose, improve your craft as an artist or designer, or just find peace at the next family reunion, this talk will provide a path forward.

Watch Scott on the TODAY show discuss how curiosity can help us strengthen our connections here.

ASL interpretation will not be offered at the event. The lecture uses a slide presentation. All content from the slides will be read aloud or described. 

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Scott Shigeoka is an internationally recognized curiosity expert, speaker, and the author of SEEK: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World. He is known for translating research into strategies that promote positive well-being and connected relationships around the globe, including at the UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and through his groundbreaking courses at the University of Texas at Austin.

About California College of the Arts

Located at the center of innovation and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area, California College of the Arts is home to a world-renowned faculty of practicing artists and entrepreneurs, and a diverse community of makers that are boldly reimagining the world. Offering 22 undergraduate and 11 graduate programs in fine arts, architecture, design, and writing, CCA’s creative culture is built around the ideals of interdisciplinary collaboration, sustainability, and community engagement.

California College of the Arts campuses are located in Huichin and Yelamu, also known as Oakland and San Francisco, respectively, on the unceded territories of Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, who have continuously lived upon this land since time immemorial. We recognize the historic discrimination and violence inflicted upon Indigenous peoples in California and the Americas, including their forced removal from ancestral lands, and the deliberate and systematic destruction of their communities and culture. CCA honors Indigenous peoples—past, present, and future—here and around the world, and we wish to pay respect to local elders, including those of the lands from which you are joining us virtually today. If you are unsure of who’s land you are currently residing upon, we encourage you to visit native-land.ca.