EXPLORING TRADITIONAL & EMERGING MODELS OF PREVENTION & CARE by Fresh Outlook Foundation

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Meet mental health researchers and professionals as they talk about traditional care, emerging models of diagnosis and treatment, and the pioneering ways we can help heal ourselves during difficult times. You'll also learn how to discover and use your own unique mental health superpowers!

Session Agenda

WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS (Joanne de Vries, Fresh Outlook Foundation & Javeed Sukera, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University)
CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH: The Unquestionable Link to Community Resilience (Vanessa Lapointe, R.Psych, Renowned Educator, Consultant, Speaker, Best-selling Author)
APPLIED POSITIVE NEUROSCIENCE: Simple Steps to Reverse the Downward Spirals of Anxiety & Depression (Alex Korb, PhD, UCLA Neuroscientist, Author, Speaker, Consultant, Coach)
TRENDS IN THE DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESSES: The Power of Big Data & Machine Learning (Andy Greenshaw, PhD, FRSA, University of Alberta)
TRADITIONAL & CONTEMPORARY MEDICINE: The Best of Both Worlds for Indigenous Healing (Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, Coyote Institute)
REBUILDING BC: COVID as a Trigger for Sustainability & Workplace Mental Health (Arden Henley, Green Technology Education Centre)
PANEL DISCUSSION: Advancing Traditional & Emerging Models of Prevention & Care (All speakers)
FROM STEREOTYPES TO SUPERHEROES: Harnessing Your Mental Health Superpowers (Sharon Blady, PhD, Speak Up Mental Health Advocates/Former Manitoba Minister of Health)

Presenters & Panelists

Fresh Outlook Foundation

Summit Host

The Fresh Outlook Foundation (FOF) envisions a future where everyone collaborates to make our communities healthier, happier, and more prosperous. To that end, FOF hosts vital community conversations for sustainable change that engage people from all interests, sectors, ages, cultures, abilities, genders, and sexual identities.

Janine Rayburn

Jo de Vries (Co-facilitator)

Fresh Outlook Foundation

Jo has worked with all levels of government in British Columbia, Canada for 30 years to help enrich their public outreach and engagement activities. In 2007 she established the Fresh Outlook Foundation as a charity to "inspire community conversations for sustainable change." To that end, FOF hosts events such as the highly acclaimed Building SustainABLE Communities conference, Eco-Blast Kids Camps, Reel Change SustainAbility Film Fests, and many more.

Her passion is now laser focused on fostering well-being for individuals, families, workplaces, and communities through the HEADS UP! Community Mental Health Summit and the HEADS UP! Community Mental Health Podcast.

Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, FRCPC (Co-facilitator)

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University

Javeed is an associate professor in Western University's Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. As a teacher he works with residents in psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and paediatrics. His research focuses on stigma reduction as well as implicit bias and bias management for health professionals.

Javeed is also involved in numerous committees and councils at local, national, and international levels. He is chair of the London Police Services Board and a former member of the Association of American Medical Colleges board of directors. He is also past president of the Ontario Psychiatric Association.

Vanessa Lapointe, R.Psych

Renowned educator, Consultant, Speaker & Best-selling author

Vanessa has been supporting families and children for more than fifteen years. Author of two books ('Discipline without Damage: How to get your kids to behave without messing them up' and 'Parenting Right From The Start: Laying a Healthy Foundation in the Baby and Toddler Years'), she is regularly invited as a media guest and contributor, educator and speaker, a Huffington Post Parent blogger, and a consultant to research projects and various organizations promoting emotional health and development. She presently works in private practice and has previous experience in a variety of settings, including the British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development and the school system.

Vanessa’s passion is in walking alongside parents, teachers, care providers, and other big people to really see the world through the child’s eyes. She believes that if we can do this, we are beautifully positioned to grow up our children in the best possible way. As a mother to two growing children, she strives not only professionally, but also personally, to view the world through the child’s eyes.

Alex Korb, PhD

UCLA Neuroscientist, Author, Speaker, Consultant & Coach

Alex is a scientist who’s studied the brain for more than 20 years. With an undergraduate degree in neuroscience from Brown University and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA, he’s published more than a dozen peer-reviewed journal articles on depression, neuromodulation, and other topics. He is currently an adjunct assistant professor at UCLA in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as well as vice-president of research and development for BrainSonix.

As an author, Alex wrote the bestselling book, The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time. He also writes a popular blog on how the tendencies of your brain can ruin or enrich your life.

As a speaker he educates, motivates, and inspires organizations to understand the neuroscience of well-being and put it into practice. As a consultant he works with companies and organizations to help them improve communication about neuroscience and enhance employee well-being. And, as a coach, he’s worked with the UCLA Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team for more than 15 years, and is three-time winner of the USA Ultimate’s Coach of the Year. His expertise extends into leadership and motivation, mindfulness, physical fitness, and even stand-up comedy.

Andy Greenshaw, PhD, FRSA

Professor of Psychiatry & Researcher, University of Alberta

Andy is a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Alberta in Canada. He is scientific director of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Digital Hub for Mental Health that will serve the combined APEC population of 2.7 billion people in the Pacific Rim, including Indigenous stakeholders. He also chairs the CDRIN Depression Hubs National Advisory Panel and is a member of the CDRIN Board.

Andy has broad interests in biological psychiatry and behavioural neuroscience, and his research focus includes the application of machine learning and data mining to predict differential diagnosis and treatment responses in mental disorders. He is part of a collaborative computational psychiatry group that includes researchers from the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and the IBM Centre for Advanced Study at the University of Alberta; the IBM Thomas J. Watson Center in New York; the West China Hospital, Sichuan University in Chengdu, China; and the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences in Bangalore, India.

Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD

Family and Geriatric Medicine/General Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Coyote Institute

A native American physician and psychiatrist, Lewis trained at Stanford University and has been on the faculties of several medical schools, most recently as associate professor of family medicine at the University of New England.

His goal is to bring the wisdom of indigenous peoples about healing back into mainstream medicine, and to transform medicine and psychology through this wisdom coupled with more European derived narrative traditions. To that end, he’s written a number of books, including Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, and Coyote Wisdom, a trilogy on what Native culture has to offer the modern world.

Lewis's current interests include psychosis and its treatment within community and with non-pharmacological means, narrative approaches to chronic pain and its use in primary care, and further developing healing paradigms within a narrative/indigenous framework. He is also a director of the Coyote Institute for Studies of Change and Transformation.

Arden Henley, Ed.D

Chair, Green Technology Education Centre

Arden is founding board chair of BC’s Green Technology Education Centre. He is a former Vice President of City University in Canada, and one of the founders of its Masters of Counselling program. He has a BA from McMaster, an MA from Duquesne in Pittsburgh, and a Doctorate in Education Leadership from SFU. Arden is also an Honorary Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Well known for his innovative leadership style and thought-provoking presentations, Arden consulted broadly with community and government agencies and practiced family therapy and organizational development for more than 40 years. These experiences are outlined in his book, entitled 'Social Architecture: Notes & Essays'.

Sharon Blady, PhD

Founder, Speak Up: Mental Health Advocates and Sharon Blady & Associates

Former Manitoba Health Minister, academic, and comic book geek turned mental health superhero, Sharon empowers others with her fandom-based Embrace Your Superpowers program. Using her lived experience of mental health and neurodiversity diagnoses, She helps others better understand and achieve improved mental health and well-being. Her diagnoses became a source of strength – Superpowers – which she harnessed and directed for personal, organizational, and community growth.

Sharon's life experiences range from being a single mom on social assistance, to being responsible for a $6-billion health department budget. She is a survivor of domestic violence, cancer, and suicide, along with being a published author, entrepreneur, and public speaker.