MW17Mental Wellness Summit 2

Event Experts

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  Joel Kahn, MD, FACC

  (Optimal!) Sexual Health and Nutrition

  What You'll Learn +

  • Enhancing your mood, aroma and arterial function
  • Clean eating results in a few weeks!
  • For longevity, how often should you have sex?
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  Alicia Diaz Lynn, MA, AHP

  6 Stages of Disease (and Root-Cause Healing)

  What You'll Learn +

  • Reversing disease from the 6 stages
  • Awakening cellular intelligence
  • How toxins weaken tissue (and manifest disease!)
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  Lori Morrison

  Awakening Your Spirit to Overcome Challenges

  What You'll Learn +

  • Defining your life’s purpose
  • How to start healing from within
  • Does the mind can connect us to disease?
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  Alex Charfen

  Balancing the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle

  What You'll Learn +

  • The entrepreneurial personality
  • Steps to maintaining momentum
  • Building strengths to overpower weaknesses
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  Dana Colson, DDS, MBA

  Can Your Mouth Affect Mental Health?

  What You'll Learn +

  • Heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s and mouth inflammation
  • Tension headaches from grinding and clenching teeth
  • Effects of snoring and sleep apnea
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  JJ Virgin, CNS, BCHN, EP-C

  Creating Health Through Mindset Change

  What You'll Learn +

  • Her son’s miraculous recovery
  • Feeling better through service
  • Gratitude, appreciation and miracles
   
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  Deborah Rozman

  Creating Heartfulness and Coherence for Practitioners

  What You'll Learn +

  • Heart rate variability: measuring emotional stress
  • The HeartMath technique of Quick Coherence
  • Heart rhythm coherence for emotional self-regulation
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  Trudy Scott, CN

  Dangers of Benzodiazepines (& Benefits of GABA)

  What You'll Learn +

  • What should you do before tapering off benzodiazepines?
  • The Ashton protocol (and how NOT to taper!)
  • Recognizing signs of GABA deficiency
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  Chris Zaino

  Discovering and Empowering Your Inner Hero

  What You'll Learn +

  • Remember your inner hero
  • Power of massive pride, ego humility
  • Questions to help you find your passion
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  Srini Pillay, MD

  Discovering Bliss in "Unfocus"

  What You'll Learn +

  • What are you feeding your brain?
  • How to use CIRCA to retrain your brain
  • Unfocusing to increase productivity
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  Andrea Nakayama, FNLP, MSN, CNC, CNE, CHHC

  Eating Your Way to Optimal Mental Wellness

  What You'll Learn +

  • The story, soup and skill approach
  • Why fixing the gut helps with mental health
  • Start with elimination diet (then broaden!)
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  Troy Casey, CHN

  Elemental Basis of Mental and Emotional Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Troy’s Amazonian awakening to health
  • Getting back to nature to optimize health
  • Decide who you want to be and take action
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  Ben Congleton

  Empowering Mental Health in the Workplace

  What You'll Learn +

  • High-performing teams and psychological safety
  • Environments for employees to reach full potential
  • Unconventional values of an empowering company
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  Tom O'Bryan, DC, CCN, DACBN

  Environmental Triggers for Mood Disorders

  What You'll Learn +

  • Why we have more stress than our ancestors
  • Genetic answers to disease prevalence
  • Can anyone digest wheat properly?
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  Srinivas Rao

  Finding Your Creative Rhythm

  What You'll Learn +

  • The power of consistency (and momentum!)
  • Balancing action and patience in the creative process
  • Who makes a good team member?
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  Mark Hyman, MD

  Functional Approach to Boosting Your Mental Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Importance of the gut-brain connection
  • How 200 million bacterial genes are impacting you
  • Direct link between food and mood
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  Heidi Hanna, PhD

  Good Stress, Bad Stress and Making Them Work for You

  What You'll Learn +

  • Fundamentals of stress management
  • How stress in the womb can impact you for life
  • 4 things that the brain craves
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  Jonas Koffler

  Hidden Benefits of Doing Something that Moves You

  What You'll Learn +

  • Overcoming false fear and embracing freedom
  • 3 unseen laws of hustle
  • 10-minute rule vs the 10,000-hours rule
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  Patti Conklin

  How Subtle Energy Fields Affect Mental Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • How the earth’s energy field is evolving
  • Why YOU are ultimate responsible for YOURself
  • Your peace can be found inside of you
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  Jon Young

  Importance of a Soulful Connection to Nature

  What You'll Learn +

  • 8 attributes of connection modeling
  • Unexpected value of a greeting custom
  • Balancing nature and tech
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  David Jockers, DNM, DC, MS

  Ketogenesis for Energy Stability

  What You'll Learn +

   
  • Ketones and mental, emotional and energetic well-being
  • Can you produce neurotransmitters on a ketogenic diet?
  • What foods are in a ketogenic diet?
   
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  Sean Fargo

  Life-Changing Mindfulness

  What You'll Learn +

   
  • What is mindfulness?
  • Everyday benefits of mindfulness
  • Mindfulness techniques in your workplace
   
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  Dave Asprey

  Mitochondrial Connection to Brain Performance

  What You'll Learn +

  • How nutrition affects cognition
  • Integrating logic and emotion
  • Can bacteria really drive behavior?
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  Tommy Rosen

  Moving from Addiction through Recovery

  What You'll Learn +

  • Addiction begins in the womb
  • Get high daily in nature
  • Drop the screen and reconnect to the world
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  Frank Ford

  Power of Improvisation, Laughter and Positive Thinking

  What You'll Learn +

  • The “Yes, And” philosophy to retrain your brain
  • Going from ego to we-go!
  • Your idealism CAN change the world
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  Joan Rosenberg, PhD

  Release Toxic Emotions to Write a New Story!

  What You'll Learn +

  • The emotional component of disease
  • Steps to take back your health TODAY
  • How your past impacts you now
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  Sarah Ballantyne, PhD

  Restorative and Nourishing Power of Sleep

  What You'll Learn +

  • Link between sleep and depression
  • Your bedtime can add to obesity risk
  • How sleep and sunlight help you heal
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  Jonathan Landsman

  Secrets to Creating More Happiness

  What You'll Learn +

  • Physical threats to a winning mindset
  • Believe in the result, before you see it!
  • A mindset and plan of action for success
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  Margaux Khoury

  Strategies to Thrive as a Busy (or Expecting) Parent

  What You'll Learn +

  • Smelling a newborn can help mental health
  • Importance of breastfeeding and colostrum
  • Placenta pills and postpartum depression
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  Pedram Shojai, OMD

  The Art of Stopping Time

  What You'll Learn +

   
  • Choosing what’s truly important
  • Balancing when you say “yes” (and “no!”)
  • Time: why it’s the currency of life
   
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  Dana Trentini, MA, EdM

  Thyroid and Postpartum Connection

  What You'll Learn +

  • Links between thyroid disease and mental issues
  • Which thyroid tests do you actually need?
  • Factors that influence thyroid health
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  James Maskell

  When Technology Meets Functional Medicine

  What You'll Learn +

  • Why value-based care is the future of medicine
  • Single most powerful element of any protocol
  • Doctor or health coach: which is better?

Meet Your Host

Jonas Koffler

Jonas Koffler is a co-founder of the Mental Wellness Summit, social innovator and entrepreneur specializing in empowering health and human potential through his research and ventures, which include LadaLabs, Radical Wellness Inc. and others. Jonas is a long-time advocate and practitioner of empathy, mindfulness, yoga and wellness rituals. 

He is a New York Times bestselling author with work translated in ten languages as well as an award-winning writer and producer at Koffler Pictures, where he and partners are currently working on a new documentary film on music, mental health, and community. Jonas tragically lost his younger brother Ben to suicide in 2018 and more recently lost his father Richard to COVID-19 in 2020.

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.