Mental Health & Wellness Summit
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
11:00am to 4:30pm EST
5 HOURS DEDICATED TO YOU.
EARN UP TO 5 CEUs.
>> See approved CEU details per province here
Self-Care
Team-Care
Family-Care
MEET THE SPEAKERS
MIKE GOODYEAR
Funeral Home Owner & 30+ Year Funeral Director @ Central Funeral Homes, NL
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A personal story with advice to give to all funeral professionals. Last year, one of his staff members committed suicide inside the funeral home. He'll share how it affected his team. community + more.
CHRISTINA WALTON
Individual & Bereavement Therapist & Funeral Director @ PX Dermody, ON
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As a long-time individual and bereavement therapist, and funeral director, Christina will share her top strategies for creating boundaries to build a stronger self, work better and prevent burnout.
SHIRLEY WOODS (CMHA)
Mental Health Educator, Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)
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As a Mental Health Educator with the CMHA, Shirley will focus on dealing with pandemic-driven anxiety and emotions, and new remote expectations to builld resiliency in yourself and your employees.
DR. NICHOLAS CARLETON
Psychology Professor | PTSD, Mental Health & Resiliency Specialist @ U of Regina, SK (Read Bio)
As an experienced Psychologist, Dr. Carleton will identify burnout signs and triggers, and give advice on coping strategies to stay healthy in the workplace for you and for your families.
ASHLEY MONTROY
Emcee & Panel Moderator | Vice-President of Funeral Service Association of Canada (FSAC)
Ashley will introduce speakers and moderate the event panel.
SESSIONS & SCHEDULE
11:00am to 12:00pm EST
DEALING WITH SUICIDE OF A DIRECTOR IN THE FUNERAL HOME: COMPOUNDING MENTAL HEALTH EFFECTS & ADVICE
Mike Goodyear
Funeral Home Owner & 30+ Year Funeral Director
Central Funeral Homes, NL
Last year, Mike experienced something inside of his business that now, looking back he sees things he didn't see - or didn't act on before. During this session,, he's sharing his story.
In February of 2020, while Mike was out of town, a funeral director at the funeral home committed suicide on location where the office manager found the body. Leaving behind a young child and a family, along with team members who worked with him for years, Mike had a new situation that he'd never dealt with before. Now, looking back he reflects on the warning signs, what could have been done differently. the effects on his team and his community and he's ready to share candid advice to all funeral professionals.
Discussion will include:
- The story of suicide inside the funeral home
- Warning signs of suicide that were ignored
- His lessons learned from the event
- How his team was and still is affected
- How his community was and still is affected
- How funeral professionals can learn from this
12:00pm to 1:00pm EST
BOUNDARIES: A NECESSARY LIFE SKILL TO MASTER & HOW IT APPLIES AT WORK
Christina Walton
Individual & Bereavement Therapist & Funeral Director
Toronto, ON
Boundaries improve our lives and enhance our relationships. They are respectful and help us to create a strong sense of self. Boundaries can help us to work better and prevent burn-out.
In this workshop participants will learn:
- the definition of boundaries, and why they are necessary.
- how to distinguish the different types of boundaries.
- learn the laws of boundaries.
- learn how to develop and apply our own boundaries.
- resources will also be provided.
1:00pm to 2:00pm EST
RESILIENCY IN CRISIS WITH THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (CMHA)
Shirley Woods
Mental Health Educator
Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)
As the Coronavirus pandemic escalates and disruptions to business as we know it continue, leaders are faced with extraordinary challenges and increased levels of stress. The pandemic is an epidemiological crisis but also a psychological crisis for business owners and employees alike. This workshop will provide tools to; deal with anxiety, lead a team remotely, manage emotions, and foster resilience in yourself and your employees.
Expect to learn about these topics:
- Working Remotely
- Emotions
- Dealing with Anxiety
- Understanding Grief
- Types of grief
- Anticipatory grief
- Collective grief
- Complicated grief
- Resilience
- Radical acceptance
- Distress improvement
2:00pm to 3:00pm EST
[PANEL DISCUSSION]: COMPASSION FATIGUE AND ITS IMPACT ON YOU & SERVING FAMILIES
Panelists: Sarah Sunnucks & Christina Walton
Moderator: Ashley Montroy
Join Sarah Sunnucks, Preplanning Funeral Director & Aftercare specialist with Smith's Funeral Home, Canada's first funeral home with an in-house Grief Therapist, and Christina Walton, Registered Therapist & Funeral Director for a panel discussion. They will talk about important, not-often talked about issues facing funeral professionals today such as compassion fatigue and setting boundaries. They'll share tips for recognizing the signs of compassion fatigue and advice for pushing through it to help yourself and everyone around you. They'll talk about how boundaries are important in protecting yourself and your mental health and speak to personal experiences inside and outside of the profession and what funeral professionals can learn as a result. Get ready for an honest, much-needed conversation as we, as a profession, deal with the aftermath of this pandemic. This one is all about taking care of YOU!
Topics Include:
- Recognizing compassion fatigue in yourself
- Recognizing compassion fatigue in your co-workers
- How to deal with compassion fatigue in the workplace
- How to truly take care of you so you can take care of others
- Setting boundaries for your own mental health
- Clearing through the fog to be your best self
3:00pm to 4:00pm EST
BURNOUT:
ROOTS, SIGNS & COPING TOOLS
Dr. Nicholas Carleton
Psychology Professor University of Regina & Director of CIPSRT, SK
Funeral Profession Peer Support
Canadian public safety personnel and frontline health care workers regularly engage with diverse, potentially psychologically traumatic events (e.g., threatened or actual physical harm). The exposures can lead to a variety of mental health injuries (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, panic disorder, alcohol use disorder). Recent research has provided important information about those experiences, such as the scope of the challenges, the
In this session, you'll learn about these challenges and what research says about the potential impacts on mental and physical health, as well as opportunities to help protect your mental health. You'll leave knowing how to identify potentially problematic symptoms and about valuable coping skills .
At-a-glance, this presentation will help you:
- Identify burnout stressors
- Identify signs of burnout
- Understand the need to identify their own personal "triggers
- Understand that burnout is a common factor happening to varying First Responders (or Public Safety Personnel)
- Understand that facing burnout in a healthy manner keeps employees in the workforce and doing their best for grieving families
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