MHWFA hosts regular guest speakers, all mental health professionals who are speaking to topics relevant to wilderness or remote areas. These online live events are an awesome way to network with others in the industry as well as access and learn directly from a variety of experts in the mental health field.
Views expressed are the guest speakers' own and may or may not reflect the views of MHWFA.
Joel Pippus, BRS, CYC Cert
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Joel has been employed with Hull Services since 2010 and during that time has worked in a variety of roles. As a result, he has gained a solid foundation of skills for working with children and youth with complex needs and families through involvement with Therapeutic Campus Based Care, Hull School and the Push To Heal project. He is an agency trainer, a fully certified member of the Child and Youth Care Association of Alberta since 2013 and holds a Neurosequential Model in Sports certification. Currently, Joel works at Pathways to Prevention: A Centre for Childhood Trauma as Training & Education Facilitator (helping to support practical implementation of the Neurosequential Model (NM) concepts into programs and projects across Hull’s continuum as well as training community members) as well as the project lead for Push To Heal (using skateboarding through the lens of the NM as an alternative treatment for high needs kids). Through Push To Heal, Joel’s focus is on integrating NM concepts into skateboarding in ways that support folks engaged in Hull’s continuum of services, the wider community and international partnerships in the social skate sector. During his free time, you’ll find Joel skateboarding and doing other sports and activities as much as time will allow and spending time with his wife and four young children.
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Joel Pippus in 2018 served as team lead in the creation of this mini-documentary Push to Heal (see below), which documents the link between skateboarding and trauma healing in young people. Join us to hear from Joel about how rhythmic, repetitive, relational activity, such as skateboarding, can support children and adults alike, through the lens of Dr. Bruce Perry's neurosequential model of trauma healing.
In the presentation, we will follow the history of how Push To Heal developed, stopping at various points in the story to discuss:
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Tracy Moulaison, Counsellor & Cultural Wellness Worker
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Jes Logher, M.Ed.
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Renée Dumas, M.A., C.C.C.
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dumasr_naturesresilienceboost_summary.pdf | |
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dumasr_wmhfa_presentation_june27_2024.pdf | |
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Michael "Doc" Crawford
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Laura Whiddon
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the_mindful_garden.pdf | |
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Sean J Stevens
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psychoeducation___mindfulness__how_meditation_works_in_the_brain.pdf | |
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mindfulness_resources.pdf | |
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CHRIS MUSHUMANSKI, MA & GREG MILLER, MA
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first_aid_conference_oct_2023_final.pptx | |
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Aaron Lyons
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de-escalationppt_print.pdf | |
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2023_0927_presentation_handout.pdf | |
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de-escalation_scenarios.pdf | |
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Catherine Allen
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shaken_breath_cmh_resource.pdf | |
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scarf_ho.pdf | |
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Rich Parlee
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Jess Cumming, M.A., C.C.C.
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jessica_cumming_eating_disorders_presentation3.pdf | |
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Judy North, M.A.
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Sarah Coulter
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sarah_coulter_-_mhwfa_presentation_2023_-_final.pptx | |
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Kennedy Lewis, M.A., C.C.C.
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Kate Pinsonneault, M.A., R.C.C.
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Tara Souch, M.A., R.C.C., C.C.C.
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Jeremy Addleman, M.A., C.C.C.
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Mental Health & Resilience After the Marshall Fire
by Daye cooper hagel
Sunday, March 6th, 2022 4pm-6pm Mountain Time (3pm-5pm pacific)
Click image to view more event information & resources -- for those affected by the Colorado Marshall Fire.
Joelle Prevost, M.C.P., R.C.C.
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Sarah Hagar, M.Ed., R.C.C.
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Michael McCarthy,
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