MW15Mental Wellness Summit
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Event Experts
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Jesse Hanson
A Toolkit for Healing Trauma
What You'll Learn +
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● The different levels of trauma and ways to release it
● Regulating your nervous system and expanding your capacity to self regulate
● Unresolved trauma’s relation to the spectrum of mental health symptoms/disorders
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Hyla Cass, MD
Addiction, Nutrition and Natural Medication Detox
What You'll Learn +
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● How to safely and effectively taper your use of medications
● Why hormones are so important for optimal mental health
● The nutritional supplements that are most helpful for patients on medications.
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James Greenblatt, MD
An Integrated Perspective on Eating Disorders
What You'll Learn +
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● Integrative psychology and the role it plays in mental health treatment● 4 eating disorders and their underlying causes● Key nutrient deficiencies commonly linked to eating disorders
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Julie Daniluk
Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Reducing Depression and ADHD
What You'll Learn +
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● 4 major causes of inflammation and the link to depression
● Why eating organic food is critical for children with ADHD
● Tips for detecting inflammation processes in the body
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Trudy Scott, CN
Anxiety, Pyroluria and Amino Acid Therapy
What You'll Learn +
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● Anxiety and diet: The connection between what we eat and how we feel
● Amino acids in the treatment of anxiety and other mental health conditions
● Amino acid repletion programs to treat anxiety and other mental health disorders
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Mike Chang
Body Over Mind: Health, Willpower and Fitness
What You'll Learn +
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● Physical exercise to improve your self-esteem and build more confidence● Fitness rituals to contribute to our optimal emotional balance and wellbeing● Tips for those having a hard time beginning or continuing a fitness regime
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Gwen Olsen
Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher
What You'll Learn +
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● An inside view of Big Pharma from a former pharmaceutical sales rep● Mental Health Alchemy and how to turn your mental anguish into spiritual gold● Making informed decisions for yourself and loved ones
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Sayer Ji
Deeper Into Mental Wellness Research
What You'll Learn +
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● Lab tests and how to determine mental health disorders
● Holistic treatment protocols and root-cause symptoms of mental health challenges
● The power of avoiding gluten and choosing rituals as tools for healing
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Alesandra Rain
Drug Interactions and Contradictions
What You'll Learn +
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● The challenges of taking a pharmaceutical cocktail of medications● Importance of food-based nutraceuticals & safe medication tapering/detox strategies● The dangers/challenges of medications interacting with each other & with foods
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Greg McKeown, MBA
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
What You'll Learn +
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● Essentialism and why is it critical to our wellbeing.
● The importance of simplifying our lives in a world of constantly expanding demands
● Why we often make trade-offs we do not intend
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Peter Osborne, DC, DACBN, PScD
Grainflammation, Food Toxicity and Microbes
What You'll Learn +
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● “Grainflammation” and how eating the wrong food impacts our mental health
● “Leaky Brain” and how it affects those diagnosed with psychiatric conditions
● Functional medicine testing and natural remedies to treat and reduce inflammation
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Master Sher O’Rourke
Healing the Soul
What You'll Learn +
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● The art and practice of soul healing● Karma and how it affects our health and wellness● How soul healing positively impacts one’s mental health and wellness
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Alison Armstrong
Healthy Relationships, Healthier Mind
What You'll Learn +
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● How men and women operate in relationships--in opposing operating systems
● Sorting out relationship challenges as a foundation to health and wellness
● The critical importance of honoring your partner as a path to healing
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John Dempster, ND, FAARFM, ABAAHP
Heavy Metal Detoxification and Functional Medicine
What You'll Learn +
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● Providing a tailored map for patients to address root-cause resolution
● Difference between heavy metal “toxicity” and heavy metal “burden”
● How to safely remove heavy metals from the body
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Kelly Brogan, MD
Holistic Medicine and Root-Cause Resolution
What You'll Learn +
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● Why people commonly experience mental health symptoms
● A more holistic, root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric treatment
● Dangers of psychotropic medications and power of radical dietary change
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Raj Raghunathan, PhD, MBA
If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?
What You'll Learn +
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● The differences between success and happiness● Why we’re not set up for life success, good health and wellbeing● What it means to make happiness-enhancing decisions
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Daniel Amen, MD
Innovative Psychiatry and The Amen Clinic Approach
What You'll Learn +
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● How changing your brain your changes your life
● Importance of addressing the authentic “why” aspects of a person’s mental health
● The flaws in the psychiatric treatment model
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Ross McKenzie
Journey Beyond Meds
What You'll Learn +
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● Thriving and reclaiming one’s life through a holistic, self-care approach
● Benefits of prescription detoxification and heavy metal chelation
● Addressing the root cause resolution of mental health symptoms
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Ginger Dean
Managing Money and Your Mental Health
What You'll Learn +
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● Addressing financial challenges to create more balance, harmony and flow● Taking the time and effort to consistently live within one’s means● How regular budgeting is a path to empowerment and abundance creation
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James Maskell
Mental Health from Scratch: Redefining the Care Paradigm
What You'll Learn +
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● Why functional medicine is becoming a cornerstone in the future of health care● A community’s role in healthcare, and why is it considered the “guru” of the future● How online technology is re-shaping healthcare
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Mansoor Mohammed, PhD
Methylation, Genomics and Mood Disorders
What You'll Learn +
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● “Lifestyle genomics” and the genetic impact on our mental health
● Science of single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variations
● Methylation and how it impacts your mental health and wellbeing
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David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM
Microbiome: A New Frontier in Mental Health
What You'll Learn +
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● Why the human microbiome is our “newest” organ
● C-section babies: Increased risk of autoimmune and mental health issues
● Medications and their impact on our gut microbiome
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Scott Clack, ND
Naturopathic Approach to Healing ADHD
What You'll Learn +
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● How diet, food additives and food sensitivities affect children with ADHD● Common toxins, vitamin deficiencies and mineral deficiencies in ADHD● Proactively manage your child’s care through functional medicine diagnostics
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Lisa Wimberger, MEd
Neurosculpting, Repatterning and Healing
What You'll Learn +
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● Neurosculpting as a healing modality
● The numerous benefits of Neurosculpting, including healing PTSD
● Neurosculpting as a means to rewire limiting beliefs and negative patterns
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Kimberly Snyder
Nutrition and Detoxification for Everyday Wellness
What You'll Learn +
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● Problems with the standard American diet (SAD) and how it affects “Inner Beauty”
● Foods that create nutrient deficiencies that most affect our mental health
● Tips for safely and effectively detoxifying
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Jonathan Prousky, ND, MSc
Orthomolecular Medicine Approach to Mental Health Disorders
What You'll Learn +
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● Orthomolecular medicine as evidence-based therapy for treating mental disorders
● How anti-psychotic medications impact our health
● Specific nutrient supplementation to help patients experience improvement
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Gina Ross
PTSD, Trauma and Healing at the Personal and Societal Level
What You'll Learn +
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● How trauma symptoms mimic behavior symptoms in children
● 5 channels of dysfunction that unresolved trauma affects
● Somatic Experience and how it addresses and heals trauma
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Chris Kresser, MS, LAc
The Brain-Gut Connection
What You'll Learn +
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● Why our gut-brain connection is the axis to optimal mental health
● How our gut ‘flora’ and our bacterial DNA play a major role with our mental health
● Gut flora and chronic stress, and how mental health impacts our beneficial bacteria
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Shunyamurti Shunyamurti
The Healing Power of Meditation
What You'll Learn +
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● Benefits of keys to developing a meditation practice
● Becoming our real selves through meditation, foster nobility and good ethics
● How meditation plays a role in supporting the healing of mental health symptoms
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Gioconda Parker, MA
The Lasting Benefits of Yoga and Somatic Experience
What You'll Learn +
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● How yoga and meditation work symbiotically to heal and make us feel whole● 8 limbs of yoga and how they show up and unfold in our lives and wellbeing● Designing a functional practice of yoga for lasting, positive impact
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Robert Whitaker
The Perils of Big Pharma
What You'll Learn +
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● Psychiatry: The influence of institutions and madmen
● The destructive DSM-3 and deception of the chemical imbalance theory
● The massive scale of social injury to the public without informed consent
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Frank Ford
Yes, and...the Benefits of Improvisation in EveryDay Life
What You'll Learn +
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● The improv tool of “yes and…,” and how it can transform your life● How studying and applying the tools of improvisation can add joy to your life● How improv improves one’s listening skills and fosters empathy.
Meet Your Host
Ross McKenzie
Ross is co-founder of the Mental Wellness Summit, a health and wellness education company that explores the potential for a mind, body and spirit approach to addressing mental health challenges from a root-cause resolution perspective.
Ross is a Relational Somatic therapist, certified Hatha Yoga instructor, Conklin-Method Cellular Cleansing Associate, Reiki Energy Medicine Practitioner, and trained in Hypnotherapy. His studies span countless modalities and techniques in his vigorous pursuit of optimal wellness.
In 2013 he co-produced and co-wrote the prominent award-winning feature-length documentary Bipolarized highlighting his self-directed odyssey back to a revitalized existence. The film has been screened at dozens of film festivals worldwide and honored with numerous awards. It is consistently met with widespread acclaim for its increasing relevance in this era of awakening, transformation offering a new paradigm in how we approach mental health.
John Dempster, ND, FAARFM, ABAAHP
John Dempster, ND, FAARFM, ABAAHP, is a board-certified naturopathic doctor, founder, and medical director of The Dempster Clinic –Center for Functional Medicine. He uses a functional medicine model to treat patients with various conditions such as mental illness, autoimmune disease, and digestive disorders. His approach emphasizes the importance of optimizing biochemical, metabolic, and hormonal function using integrative and evidence-based medicine to promote overall health.
In addition to working with patients at his Toronto-based clinic, Dr. Dempster is also the co-founder of The Mental Wellness Summit, one of the world’s largest web-based forums that provides natural solutions and root cause resolution for mental illness.
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