Dr Lucy Hone is a resilience expert who thought she found her calling supporting people to recover following the Christchurch earthquake. She had no idea that her personal journey was about to take her to a far darker place. In this powerful and courageous talk, she shares the three strategies that got her through an unimaginable tragedy⁠—and offers a profound insight on human suffering. Dr Lucy Hone is a director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing

Jessica Gimeno lives with bipolar disorder and wants to expand the discourse around mental health. Its not enough to just receive a diagnosis, she says, people have to learn to live with depression and other mental health issues. In her talk, she shares the techniques shes learned to help her get stuff done while depressed.

Jessica is a warrior who fights five illnesses daily: bipolar II, polycystic ovarian syndrome, asthma, psoriasis, and the neuromuscular autoimmune disease Myasthenia Gravis (MG). Jessica Gimeno was valedictorian of her class, winning more than 20 speech competitions. Motivated by a friend’s suicide, she spoke to hundreds of students about mental health stigma and helped thirty students get psychiatric help. In her free time, Jessica is a diehard New Kids on the Block fan who enjoys pilates, painting, and playing with her nieces and nephews.

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Cecilia McGough puts a face to schizophrenia and helps empower college students through the upcoming non-profit Students With Schizophrenia.

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Cecilia McGough is an astronomer, activist, and writer as a Penn State Schreyer Honors College scholar pursuing a major in Astronomy

Messaging around sexual assault prevention is largely aimed at women and cloaked in helpful advice: dont walk alone, dont get drunk, dont put yourself at risk. Essentially, dont get raped.

What if we turn this attention to a different population and say, dont rape? What are we doing wrong as a culture that we continue to produce rapists?

Through poignant storytelling, award-winning author and investigative producer Amy Herdy explores the cycle of sexual abuse and examines the dangers of dismissing our most violent predators as monsters.

For more than twenty years, journalist and author Amy Herdy has specialized in trauma reporting, particularly sexual assault.

Ms. Herdy’s professional engagements include teaching workshops on investigative reporting and trauma journalism for the U.S. State Department in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, Pakistan. Her awards include an Emmy; Society of Professional Journalists awards; a Radio, Television News Directors Association award; an Associated Press award; two American Society of Newspaper Editors awards and a Military Reporters

1 out of 4 people suffer from mental illness. Look around you, and chances are out of the closest 3 people, 1 of you may be suffering from mental illness. Elizabeth speaks volumes from her own experience battling mental illness and how it is not a personal problem, but a communal one for which we are all responsible to address.

Elizabeth is a junior at the University of Texas at Austin studying Chemistry. She is a pre-medical student hoping to one day run her own practice and use a combination of diet, therapy, and medicine to heal the physical and psychological wounds of her patients. She is the proud owner of her mini wiener dog Bella, who helped her heal and grow through some of her lifes toughest battles.

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Learn why people tend to reactively treat their weirdness as a dangerous liability. Perspectives will be shared on how weirdness is actually one’s greatest asset, serving as a bridge into one’s authenticity. How to take action on finding the courage to say YES! to weirdness will be presented so that more meaning and fulfillment can be encountered by reclaiming the asset of weirdness.

JP Sears is an emotional healing coach, YouTuber, author, international teacher, speaker at events, world traveler, and curious student of life. His work empowers people to live more meaningful lives. JP is the author of “How To Be Ultra Spiritual,” (Sounds True Publishing, released March 7th, 2017). He is very active with his online videos where he encourages healing and growth through his humorous and entertainingly informative videos, including his hit Ultra Spiritual comedy series, which has accumulated over 250 million views. You can learn more about JP and his work at AwakenWithJP.com.

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В своей истории Гульнар, успешная предпринимательница, делится своим необычным опытом, а вернее опытом своего отца, который в одиночку воспитал троих детей. Смелость отца натолкнула Гульнар на мысль о разнице материнского и отцовского подходов.

Соучредитель первого казахстанского fashion и lifestyle интернет-портала Look.tm, а также соучредитель первого казахстанского вебсайта для женщин Comode.kz. Вот уже 10 лет работает в сфере управления проектами. Благодаря своей профессиональной деятельности, Гульнар можно смело назвать opinion лидером в таких областях как мода и красота.

Она была одной из участников проекта от Burberry London, который назывался Art of Trench, вошла в список 50 самых влиятельных людей в модной индустрии Казахстана.

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Легко ли разводиться в 19 лет? Зауре в своей речи рассказывает про тяжелый опыт жизни, который дал ей толчок осознать всю свою внутреннюю силу.

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Каждый человек может стать психологически устойчивым, но большинство не знает как.

Мы часто интересуемся тем, как развить физическую силу или улучшить физическое здоровье, и гораздо реже задумываемся о силе духа или психическом здоровье.
Но существуют упражнения, с помощью которых мы можем научиться контролировать свои мысли, управлять своими эмоциями и оставаться продуктивными вне зависимости от обстоятельств. Это три главных фактора психологической устойчивости. Выработка силы духа — залог успеха вне зависимости от того, каких целей вы хотите достичь.

Эми Морин — лицензированный клинический социальный работник и психотерапевт. С 2002 года она занимается консультированием детей, подростков и взрослых. Она также работает адъюнкт-преподавателем психологии.

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