Mental Health Support Training

  • Mental Health Counselling Self-Guided Certificate, in progress, Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute (CTRI)

  • Introduction to Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Skills, Dialectical Living

  • Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training - ASIST, Living Works

  • Introduction to Wellness Recovery Action Planning, WRAP, Copeland Centre

  • Addictions and Mental Illness: Working with Co-occurring Disorders, CTRI

  • Trauma Informed Care - Building a Culture of Care, CTRI

  • Mental Health First Aid certificate, Mental Health Commission of Canada

  • Understanding Intergenerational Trauma and Intergenerational Healing, York University

Mindfulness Training

  • Mindfulness for Resilience Program – Facilitator Training, Centre for Mindfulness Studies

  • Mindfulness for Self-Compassion, Centre for Mindfulness Studies

Indigenous History

  • Kairos Blanket Exercise: Reconciliation through Education and Understanding

  • Intergenerational Trauma: Context, Impacts and Trauma-Informed Practices For Career Practitioners - Indigenous history in Canada, Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association

  • Indigenous histories in Canada and Indigenous approaches to learning, Dragonfly Consulting Services

Academic

  • Master of Arts, Major in English, Concordia University

  • Bachelor of Arts, Double Major in Philosophy and Religion, Concordia University

Workplace Accessibility

  • Worker Health and Safety Awareness, Ontario Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development

  • Working Together: The Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act

  • Access Forward: Integrated Accessibility Standard Regulations, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act

  • Being a Mindful Employee: An Orientation to Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, Mental Health Commission of Canada

Books

  • Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, Angela Chen

  • Things Fall Apart, Pema Chödrön 

  • Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces, Elamin Abdelmahmoud

  • The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life, Piero Ferrucci

  • The Book of Delights, Ross Gay

  • Falling Back in Love with Being Human, Kai Cheng Thom

  • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, Richard C. Schwartz

  • Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker

Podcasts

  • 60 Songs that Explain the 90s, with Rob Harvilla

  • Where Should We Begin, with Esther Perel

  • On Being, with Krista Tippett

  • Hidden Brain, with Shankar Vedantam

Education

When I was 8, my parents gave me a copy of The Way Things Work, by David Macaulay because apparently I liked to ask questions about, well, how things worked. Not just how things like radios and microscopes worked, but things like religion, art, politics, life, death, violence, war, and love. You know. The simple stuff. 

I guess I didn't ever really stop. I like understanding systems. 

I also like learning that sometimes there's no way to know exactly how something works. Sometimes the system is too complex. And sometimes, there's nothing to "know", as it were. At least, nothing that words can capture.

So below you'll find a list of the different ways I've learned — the training, books, and podcasts that have impacted me on a deep level. This list will continue to grow.

I am forever indebted to my teachers.