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International Conference on Wellbeing and Ecology
Thursday,
February 10, 2022
February 10, 2022
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Iris Taylor
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Iris Taylor is Anishnawbe kwe from Curve Lake First Nation. She is a member of the Otter Clan and is a pipe carrier, as well as a knowledge and song keeper. Her community work and activism relates to Indigenous wellness, pre- and post- natal care, and trauma recovery. A mother of three and full time Gladue Worker at Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, Iris carries traditional Anishnawbe Teachings and is a knowledge and song keeper. She has returned to full time social work studies in the pursuit of becoming a registered psychotherapist.
Understanding Our Why: A Global Perspective on Wellbeing and Sustainable Practice
10:15 AM
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Natasha Tat
University of Guelph-Humber, Canada
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Natasha Tat is currently completing an Honours Bachelor of Applied Science in Psychology degree at the University of Guelph-Humber. After completing an Indigenous Mental Health course in her first year of undergraduate studies, Natasha developed an appreciation and interest in how Indigenous communities across the globe facilitate mental health and healing. As an emerging member of the psychological community, Natasha hopes to further explore her passions for mental wellbeing through graduate studies in Psychology.
David Danto
University of Guelph Humber, Canada (Dr.)
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Dr. David Danto is a clinical psychologist and Head of Psychology at the University of Guelph-Humber. His clinical and research interests include, Indigenous wellness and culture-based approaches to addressing intergenerational trauma in local and global contexts. Dr. Danto is involved in allyship and decolonization efforts within the discipline and the academy. He has worked in psychiatric hospitals, counselling centers, private practice, and correctional facilities in Canada and the United States. In partnership with Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, he developed a field course on Indigenous Mental Health, which he has delivered in Mushkegowuk Territory along the James and Hudson Bay coast for the last ten years. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) and is Board Liaison to the CPA Committee on Ethics. He recently chaired the CPA Task Force on Responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, and he currently Chairs the CPA Standing Committee on Reconciliation.
Who are we? The Long Perspective Informed by the San of Southern Africa
10:40 AM
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Chris Low
Oxford University, UK and !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre, South Africa (Dr.) Speaker's info >>
Following an academic training in archaeology, history of medicine and anthropology, Dr. Chris Low has spent two decades working in southern Africa with Khoekhoe and San peoples. The focus of his work began with an Oxford University based DPhil on Khoisan health and healing and has extended to education and human / environment relationships among indigenous peoples. Prior to this academic work Chris qualified and practiced as an osteopath and acupuncturist. This background underpins a longstanding interest in the role of the body in thinking. In 2014 Chris was tasked with setting up !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre, a joint enterprise of southern Africa’s San, or Bushmen, and a Swiss NGO instituted to support the San. Since the 2018 opening of the centre Chris has served as the Managing Director. He is an Associate Member of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University.
Capacity for Action and Identity Transitions (Presentation Conducted in French)
11:10 AM
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Anne-Marie Costalat
Université de Montpellier, France (Dr.)
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Dr. Anne-Marie Costalat studies identity as a complex and dynamic system in relation to action and its capacitive effects, both normative and subjective, which regulate identify “acuity” or “diffusion” phases of representation as well as about the construction of a project. This involves identifying the forms of congruence of the capacity system and its influence on identity in different contexts: organizational (mobility, professional reorientation), cultural (immigration and identity conflict) or health (identity alterations).
Stress Busting: 'Class 0' for Preparing Students to Learn and Thrive in Today's World
11:40 AM
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Harvey Skinner
York University, Canada (Dr.) Speaker's info >>
Dr. Harvey Skinner is a Professor of Psychology & Global Health and was Founding Dean (2006-2016) of the Faculty of Health, York University. Previously, he was Chair of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto. Dr. Skinner is a Registered Psychologist in Ontario and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He is an internationally recognized educator and scholar (7 books, over 150 articles) on what motivates individuals, organizations, and communities to change. His passion is ‘healing ourselves, healing others, healing our world’. The main focus of his current work is on Integrative Health – in particular, models for promoting global mental health that draw on diverse worldviews and practices. Currently, he is teaching a 4th year undergraduate course on Global Mental Health: Eastern, Indigenous and Western Perspectives. Also, he is leading online Zoom sessions based on Qi Gong called ‘Stress Busting: 30 Minutes of Magical Practices’. Harvey’s wellness routine includes: Qi Gong energy and movement practices, mindfulness meditation and body work exercises.
Lunch Break 12:10-12:55pm
Russ Walsh
Duquesne University, US (Dr.)
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Dr. Russ Walsh is Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, where he has at various points served as Department Chairperson, Clinic Director, and Director of Clinical Training. He has published numerous articles and book chapters addressing hermeneutic and phenomenological methodology as well as the application of these methods to psychotherapy, psychotherapy training, and indigenous health.
Jocelyn Sommerfeld
Trent University, Canada
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Jocelyn Sommerfeld is pursuing a Master of Psychology at Trent University, exploring the relationships between parents’ childhood experiences, connection to nature, and their children’s time spent in nature. Her work has received funding from both the Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (SSHRC) and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Since 2018, she has co-authored five publications on the topic of Indigenous land-based interventions. She has an Honours Bachelor of Applied Science in Psychology from the University of Guelph-Humber, where she received numerous recognitions for academic excellence. Jocelyn is also a member of the Canadian Psychological Association.
David Danto
Program Head - Psychology, University of Guelph Humber, Canada (Dr.)
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Dr. David Danto is a clinical psychologist and Head of Psychology at the University of Guelph-Humber. His clinical and research interests include, Indigenous wellness and culture-based approaches to addressing intergenerational trauma in local and global contexts. Dr. Danto is involved in allyship and decolonization efforts within the discipline and the academy. He has worked in psychiatric hospitals, counselling centers, private practice, and correctional facilities in Canada and the United States. In partnership with Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, he developed a field course on Indigenous Mental Health, which he has delivered in Mushkegowuk Territory along the James and Hudson Bay coast for the last ten years. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) and is Board Liaison to the CPA Committee on Ethics. He recently chaired the CPA Task Force on Responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, and he currently Chairs the CPA Standing Committee on Reconciliation.
Base Principles Thinking of Poverty: Reciprocity, Confidence and Resilience (Presentation Conducted in Spanish)
1:30 PM
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Karime Pavez
Pontificia U. Catolica del Peru/Inclusivia, Peru
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Karime is Partner-Director of the international consulting agency Inclusiva Consulting, which is oriented to advise governments, non-governmental organizations and private companies that seek to generate value to the Base of the Pyramid population and contribute to the reduction of poverty and inequality. Master in Marketing and Communication, Specialist in Commerce for the Base of the Pyramid by Getulio Vargas University (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Degree in Social Communication and Publicist Degree by Diego Portales University (Santiago, Chile). More than 17 years dedicated to the study of the superstructure of the thinking of the Base of the Pyramid – poor, vulnerable and emerging population - in Latin America. She has conducted several ethnographic research on this segment of the population in different countries of the region: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru, on the main life areas: food, agriculture, construction, education, finance, health, basic services, technology, among others. Her diverse experience has allowed her to carry out a work of systematization of Latin American popular principles, based on recurrent patterns of behavior that are consistent and allowed her to developed a robust structure named – PPB: Principios de Pensamiento Base (Base Principles Thinking) and write a monthly newsletter “Boletín Cultura Popular”.
Incorporating Eastern, Indigenous and Western Perspectives in Teaching and Learning
2:00 PM
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Harvey Skinner
York University, Canada (Dr.)
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Dr. Harvey Skinner is a Professor of Psychology & Global Health and was Founding Dean (2006-2016) of the Faculty of Health, York University. Previously, he was Chair of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto. Dr. Skinner is a Registered Psychologist in Ontario and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He is an internationally recognized educator and scholar (7 books, over 150 articles) on what motivates individuals, organizations, and communities to change. His passion is ‘healing ourselves, healing others, healing our world’. The main focus of his current work is on Integrative Health – in particular, models for promoting global mental health that draw on diverse worldviews and practices. Currently, he is teaching a 4th year undergraduate course on Global Mental Health: Eastern, Indigenous and Western Perspectives. Also, he is leading online Zoom sessions based on Qi Gong called ‘Stress Busting: 30 Minutes of Magical Practices’. Harvey’s wellness routine includes: Qi Gong energy and movement practices, mindfulness meditation and body work exercises.
Masood Zangeneh
Humber College, Canada (Dr.)
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Dr. Masood Zangeneh is Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning, Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. Dr. Masood Zangeneh is the founding editor of the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction; book series editor of Advances in Mental Health & Addiction; founding editor of Journal of Concurrent Disorders; and a consultant to numerous scientific journals and universities for interdisciplinary, multi-cultural research and development addressing mental health, addiction and resilience among marginalized populations.
Healing Practices and Rituals of Forest-Dwelling Rabhas Community in Assam, India
2:30 PM
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Chinmayi Sarma
Jamia Millia Islamia, India (Dr.)
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Chinmayi Sarma is an Assistant Professor at Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She completed her Ph. D from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi working on Catastrophe and Indigenous Culture. She is inclined towards Ethnography for understanding the relations of Ecosystem with Indigenous Communities. In the recent past she has been engaged as consultant with Heinrich Boll Foundation, Germany working on ‘Indigenous Women’ and The North Eastern Council, Govt. Of India, Shillong working on ‘Annual Flooding in the Brahmaputra Valley’. Most of her published work revolves around the above-mentioned domain
Jorge Yamamoto
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru (Dr.)
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Dr. Jorge Yamamoto is a Professor of Psychology at the Universidad Catolica in Lima, Peru. He is also a visiting professor at the Universidad EAFIT in Colombia as well as Bath University in England. He is the founder and coordinator of a research group on well-being, culture, and development. He has published numerous articles on happiness and satisfaction in the context of Latin America and indigenous cultures. Prof. Yamomoto has also consulted a wide array of companies on the subject of well-being.
Juan Carlos Rodriguez Camacho
University of New Brunswick, Canada (Dr.)
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Dr. Juan C. Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor of the Mi’kmaq Wolastoqey Centre and the Faculty of Education of the University of New Brunswick, Canada and the Department of Psychology of the University Guelph-Humber in Ontario, Canada. He has extensive international experience in Indigenous science, education, knowledge development and well-being services and supports working with Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. His works includes “simplex to complex” views of knowledge, science, and culture. Dr. Rodriguez’ research is conducted under community-based research methodologies in mental health, health, and education applying the Two Eyed-Seeing Perspectives (Indigenous and non-Indigenous views) and new paradigms of science. He is the co-founder member of Trans-Atlantic Crosscultural Network for the study of crisis, resilience and human-nature-culture sustainable recovery connecting experts from all sides of the Atlantic. Previously he was member of the International Council of St Thomas Aquinas research-teaching network with nine countries and a professor in psychology and education with several Latin American universities. He has extensive experience designing transdisciplinary human research laboratories and modeling human and cultural behavior. As educator and scholar, he published on globalization effects, poverty(ies), perception, memory, research methodology and pedagogy, and most recently on the concept of “relatuhedron”: relational complex evolutive machine of possibilities.
Walking Gently on the Earth: Following Anishnawbe Wellness Teachings in Urban Contexts
4:00 PM
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Iris Taylor
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Iris Taylor is Anishnawbe kwe from Curve Lake First Nation. She is a member of the Otter Clan and is a pipe carrier, as well as a knowledge and song keeper. Her community work and activism relates to Indigenous wellness, pre- and post- natal care, and trauma recovery. A mother of three and full time Gladue Worker at Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, Iris carries traditional Anishnawbe Teachings and is a knowledge and song keeper. She has returned to full time social work studies in the pursuit of becoming a registered psychotherapist.
Allison Reeves
University of Guelph-Humber (Dr.)
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Allison Reeves is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of Guelph and teaches and works exclusively at the University of Guelph-Humber. Allison is a registered psychologist in Ontario and works in the area of trauma recovery and cultural resurgence in Indigenous community contexts. Allison’s current research also focuses on racial justice in psychology.
Iris Taylor
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Iris Taylor is Anishnawbe kwe from Curve Lake First Nation. She is a member of the Otter Clan and is a pipe carrier, as well as a knowledge and song keeper. Her community work and activism relates to Indigenous wellness, pre- and post- natal care, and trauma recovery. A mother of three and full time Gladue Worker at Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, Iris carries traditional Anishnawbe Teachings and is a knowledge and song keeper. She has returned to full time social work studies in the pursuit of becoming a registered psychotherapist.
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