Online Mental Health Writing Workshop
I’m teaching another round of my writing workshop! The Write Your Brain mental health writing workshop starts February 13th. It’s focused on building writing skills around sharing about mental health topics, and developing a writing practice that’s healthy for your brain. 5 weeks of writing exercises covering a range of writing formats, from social media…
5 Tips for Taking Mental Health Workshops Online
I’ve been facilitating workshops for years, in mental health and business strategy. Adapting design thinking exercises to mental health has been so effective. It’s engaging but it’s also incredibly useful for understanding complex challenges we’re running into and seeing solutions to get out of them. The thing is, though, traveling for an in-person workshop to…
India Workshops & Vipassana Meditation Retreat
Over the past year, I’ve been exploring and researching different meditation modalities around the world to deepen my own practice and learn new techniques to share through my work. In January, I headed off to Bodh Gaya, in India’s Bihar state. It’s where the Buddha sat under the Bodhi Tree. A descendent of the original…
Toronto Event: Mindfulness Recovery
Update: Awesome panel! Thanks to Myodetox and Studio YYZ for making the space to have these conversations. This was the first panel I’ve been on where everybody was talking about recovering from mental illness to get back to doing the businesses they’re passionate about. It is amazing to see this cultural shift towards recovery. You…
Meetups in Hyderabad and Delhi
Let’s get together and work on some skills! I love to meet up with people when I’m traveling and share time together building skills and capacity to do the things that matter to us in life. During these workshops, we’ll spend a few hours exploring where we want to go, understanding the challenges that can…
Internet addiction workshop in Toronto, May 15th
I’m teaming up with Mind Matters to do a workshop at The Drake Hotel in Toronto on May 15th, at 6pm, all about techniques for cutting out online compulsions and learning how to make the internet work for you (instead of you just clicking away on a mouse for little hits of dopamine like you’re…
Strategy workshop in Indonesia on evidence-based public policy
I was in Indonesia with Syntegrity Group and the Knowledge-Sector Initiative to help over 50 public sector and academic leaders from across the Indonesian archipelago to connect research more directly to implementing effective public policies. This was the first bilingual workshop I’d ever done. The conversations were conducted in Bahasa Indonesia, so I want to…
University Peer Health Engagement Workshop
This past weekend I was at the Toronto Peer Health Network’s annual symposium to facilitate a workshop on peer engagement. There were around 60 student leaders in the workshop who run peer health education programs at universities and colleges around Toronto. They’re working with their peers right around the age when all sorts of mental and…