Erica is the founder of Recreotherapy, a social enterprise that provides innovative approaches to Therapeutic Recreation service delivery highlighting the impact of meaningful and purposeful activities and experiences for optimal living and aging. We design, implement, and evaluate programs, services, events, and products. We provide education and training, collaborate in applied research, and coach and consult with health care teams to integrate principles of therapeutic recreation into their regular practice. Our social mission is to enhance optimal living and aging, advocate for the profession of therapeutic recreation, provide student learning opportunities and jobs for new professionals, and ultimately, to change the narrative of disability, aging, dementia and caregiving.
Resilience Training Program is a Seniors Action Quebec project, is sponsored by Canadian Heritage. It is a training program intended to bring new perspectives to the many challenges faced by community outreach workers, volunteer leaders, stakeholders, social workers and other roles that offer support to seniors seeking help.
Although it may seem counter-intuitive to suggest resilience training to help seniors, it can be very helpful at this stage in their life. After all, they have faced many obstacles and overcome many of life’s challenges, begging the question: What is left for them to learn and how will resilience training be beneficial to them? The short answer is that as a trainer, you will have the ability to train others to help seniors confront issues more efficiently.
The aim of this program is two-fold First, to provide a program that can help seniors build resilience skills that will empower them to self-advocate, build social networks and nurture community involvement and second, to inspire community leaders to develop programs or activities that can provide the support for seniors to remain engaged and contribute to their quality of life. This is a 6 part series covering Resilience competencies such as , Self -Awareness, Character Strengths , Coping. Control.
Jess Malz, Inbo’s founder, was an enterprising child who started creating business plans for fun at the age of 5. But at school, they were disengaged—and led to believe they were the problem. But Jess was always in love with learning, and during university, it dawned on them that learning is a lifetime endeavour—and that adults need support too. Inbo aims to provide that support by creating connection and play online, through engaging learning experiences that elevate the voices and address the needs of every person in the room.
The core mission of the Argyle is to continue to offer excellence in psychotherapy & training at affordable rates.
They offer a wide range of services: individual therapy, couple counselling, family therapy, counselling services for groups, training and supervision for professionals as well as community agencies, and the business world. The institute’s programs are constantly monitored for quality assurance and evolve to meet the needs of those we serve.
Amanda Keller is an entrepreneur, activist, researcher, former clinician and Ph.D. student. Through her advocacy work she is recognized as one of the most prominent voices in Quebec fighting for transformative change to child welfare services. She is the founder of CARE Jeunesse, a grassroots peer support organization for alumni of foster care. She has ten years of clinical experience working with youth suffering from complex difficulties such as addiction and mental health issues. She combines her personal, professional and academic knowledge to lead meaningful change.
Crystal is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and Naturotherapist, specializing in stress and burnout. Crystal helps her clients to overcome the overwhelm, regain the confidence that they have deep inside and overall stress-less. She believes that we all have the ability to heal ourselves if only given the opportunity to tap into that healing power. Having overcome depression and corporate burnout herself, she now lives her authentic life by helping others light their paths to wellness.
Dr. Guylaine Vaillancourt is an Associate Professor in Music Therapy and Chair of the Department of Creative Arts Therapies at Concordia University. She holds a Master degree from New York University and a PhD in Leadership and Change in the Professions from Antioch University. Music therapist for the last 30 years, she has worked in mental health, palliative care, and oncology. She is a fellow and primary trainer of The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery of Music.
Gustavo Turecki MD PhD is a clinician scientist whose work focuses on understanding brain molecular changes that occur in major depression and molecular processes that explain treatment response. In addition, his work aims to elucidate the neurobiological basis of the suicidal brain. Dr. Turecki is Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Major Depressive Disorder and Suicide. He is the Scientific Director of the Douglas Institute and the Director of the McGill Group for Suicide Studies, a multidisciplinary suicide research group that comprises the Douglas Bell- Canada Brain Bank.
Dr. Turecki has conducted pioneering research which has led to our understanding of how traumatic life experiences impacts brain gene function and increases long-term risk for suicide by epigenetically regulating critical genes involved in stress responses and behavioral development. He has authored over 500 publications, including research articles in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Neuroscience, Nature Medicine, and Lancet. His work has been cited over 40,000 times (h-index 102) and he is among the 2020 most highly cited scientists in his field. Dr. Turecki’s contributions to the field have also been recognized through more than 30 awards. He serves, or has served, in the advisory boards of several scientific journals, and international scientific institutes.
Dr. Turecki is also an engaged clinician and heads the Depressive Disorders Program at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, where he treats patients with refractory major depressive disorder.