Stress Less, Stress Better

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Sept. 1, 2022

Matt Cowdroy - Ninja Skills for Managing Stress and Attention

Matt Cowdroy is a Productivity Ninja and the owner of Think Productive Australia. Having spent the first 20 years of working life in the corporate world, Matt has first hand knowledge and experience to understand the pressures faced in todays...

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July 31, 2022

Elizabeth Stanley - Compassion and Insight Through Trauma

Liz Stanley is a Georgetown University professor and the creator of Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)®, referred to as MMFT® for short. Elizabeth A. Stanley, Ph.D., is a professor of security studies at Georgetown University. She...

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July 16, 2022

Rob Buyea - A Conversation on Adversity & Fun

ROB BUYEA taught third and fourth graders in Connecticut for six years before moving t Massachusetts, where he taught high school biology for seven years at Northfield Mount Hermon. In addition to teaching, Rob was also a high school wrestling...

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April 6, 2022

Krishna Das - Calming the Mind and Opening the Heart

KD has been described by the New York Times as "the chant master of American yoga" - Krishna Das is an American vocalist known for his performances of Hindu devotional music known as kirtan. He has released seventeen albums since …

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April 5, 2022

Piotrek Nabielec - Human Centered Productivity

Piotrek Nabielec is a huge fan of human-centered productivity and the founder of the 4 Step Productivity system. For the last 6 years Piotrek has created courses that help people organize chaos, stop procrastinating and find the time for hobbies …

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March 2, 2022

Matthew Jackman - Mad Pride and Living Experience

Matthew received Australia's National Mental Health Advocate award by the Mental Health Foundation of Australia in 2020. Matthew is the Founder/CEO of The Australian Centre for Lived Experience, a peer run centre for lived experience persons seeking...

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Jan. 29, 2022

Lisa Jones - Lived Experience and Recovery

Lisa Jones is the Director of Recovery for Metro North Mental Health. This is a lived experience role that sits within the Metro North Mental Health Executive Leadership Team and provides leadership to the Metro North Mental Health lived experience...

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Jan. 14, 2022

Michelle Mitchell - Chaos, Simplicity, and Kindness

Michelle Mitchell is an award-winning speaker, and bestselling parenting author. She has been termed ‘the teenage expert’ by the media and is sought after for her compassionate and grounded advice for parenting tweens and teens. Michelle started...

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Dec. 31, 2021

Dr Christine Runyan - Mental Health and Covid - On Forgiveness and He…

Christine Runyan, PhD, ABPP Christine Runyan is a clinical health psychologist, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Co-Founder of Tend Health. After...

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Oct. 5, 2021

Ralph De La Rosa - The Heart of Compassion

Ralph De La Rosa (he/they) is an internationally published author, trauma-focused psychotherapist, and seasoned meditation teacher. Ralph began practicing meditation in 1996 and has taught since 2008. His new book, Don't Tell Me to Relax: Emotional...

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Sept. 4, 2021

Dr Amanda Rebar - Habits that Help

Dr Amanda L Rebar is an associate professor at Central Queensland University, an NHMRC Early Career Fellow, and the founding director of the Motivation of Health Behaviours (MoHB) Lab. She obtained her PhD from The Pennsylvania State University in...

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Aug. 9, 2021

Dr. Cathy Kezelman - The Journey of Healing

Dr. Cathy Kezelman AM is President of Blue Knot Foundation – National Centre of Excellence for Complex Trauma, a medical practitioner by training, and has a lived experience of childhood sexual and emotional abuse. She is committed to supporting...

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Aug. 2, 2021

Chony Bowden - The Essence of Humanness

Chony Bowden is an experienced and qualified educator who began witnessing the positive inner healing work that a regular arts based practice has on people's mental health and well being. She is a big hearted adventurer and truth seeker, who...

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June 26, 2021

Dr Justin Chapman - Moving with Anxiety and Depression

Dr Chapman completed his doctorate in measuring and positively influencing the physical activity patterns of adults with mental illness in 2016. His work spans research, mental health service and community sectors. He leads a multi-centre...

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June 8, 2021

Dr Jud Brewer - How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear

is an internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. His TED Talk ”A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit” has over 16 million views on YouTube. Dr. Jud is an associate professor at Brown University and executive medical director...

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May 19, 2021

Janet Reich Elsbach - Recipes for Caring, Connecting, and Building Co…

Janet Reich Elsbach writes about how all the numerous things going on in the average life collide with making dinner on her blog, . She is also an editor and writing teacher who loves to make space for people to …

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March 11, 2021

Sebene Selassie - Belonging in an age of disconnect

Sebene Selassie is a teacher & author who guides people to remember and trust their belonging. Born in Ethiopia and raised in Washington DC, she began studying Buddhism 30 years ago as an undergraduate at McGill University where she majored …

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March 6, 2021

Lama Christopher Coriat - The Stillness inside Stress

Lama Christopher is a Lineage Holder in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. For more than 20 years he has studied and practiced intensively under the guidance of his root teacher, Lama Kunzang Tenzin, as well as many other accomplished...

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March 6, 2021

Dr. Steven Hayes - Psychological Flexibility in Times of Uncertainty

Listed by the Institute for Scientific Information as the 30th “highest impact” psychologist in the world, Dr. Steven Hayes is a Nevada Foundation Professor of Psychology in the Behavior Analysis Program at the University of Nevada. An...

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