Other speaking experience:

Trained with Jezra Kaye (President of Speak Up For Success) in presentations and speaking.

Also worked with singing instructor Emma Harding as a vocal coach.

April 2024
Los Angeles, CA
Keynote Speaker on Collective Trauma and Post-Traumatic Growth
to attendees of Emergent Themes in Behavioural Health UCLA

February 2024
Calgary, Canada
Workshop on Somatic Skills for Trauma Recovery
to Faculty of Social Work, Alberta-wide attendees

November 2023
Vancouver, Canada
Keynote Speaker on Trauma and Stress Management
to attendees of Canadian Network for Respiratory Health

July 2023
Calgary, Canada
Workshop on How to Write About Trauma Without Causing Trauma
to attendees of writing conference When Worlds Collide

June 2023
Calgary, Canada
Plenary Speaker for Alberta Dental Association wellness conference
on stress and the body

June 2023
Calgary, Canada
Keynote Speaker for Calgary PCN Mental Health Workshop
to family doctors about trauma and post-traumatic growth

April 2023
Banff, Canada
Keynote Speaker for Eunoia Medicine women’s mental health conference
on somatic therapies in the treatment of trauma in primary care

November 2022
Saskatoon, Canada
Keynote Speaker for Tackling Trauma conference
on modern trauma, post-traumatic growth, and the workplace

October 2022
Valletta, Malta
Symposium Speaker for International Society of Addiction Medicine global conference
on somatic therapies in the treatment of trauma underlying addictive behaviors

September 2022
USA
Speaker for Will Rogers Foundation 4,000 members
on our nervous systems and mental flexibility, on YouTube here

April 2022
Canada
Keynote Speaker for Infection Prevention and Control Canada national conference
on our collective trauma and how we move forward together

March 2022
USA
Speaker at Foster Source Colorado
on polyvagal theory and top-down and bottom-up solutions to trauma responses

October 2021
Canada
Speaker at Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine
on use of somatic techniques to heal trauma underlying addiction

July 2021
World-wide
Speaker at World Health Network Summit
about the inequities unmasked by the pandemic

November 2020
Calgary, Canada
Interviewed about an advocacy open letter related to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as news interviews with Global News about necessary public health measures and the disproportionate effects on racialized communities, about health care worker burnout in the National Post

March 2020
Calgary, Canada
Interviewed by CBC Television
about health in shelters and One Health related to the COVID-19 pandemic

March 2020
Calgary, Canada
Panel for Sustainable Communities: Migration on a Changing Planet
Through University of Calgary Office of Sustainability

March 2019
Calgary, Canada
Presented Global Health: the Shadow Side 
To University of Calgary Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research student chapter

October 2018
Seoul, Korea
Workshopped The Besrour Storybooth: Narrative Competence towards Social Accountability with Clayton Dyck
To WONCA World Conference of Family Doctors

August 2018
Limerick, Ireland
Presented TUFH Talks: Social Innovation Lab towards Community Engagement in Primary Care
To TUFH World Summit on Social Accountability

April 2018
Ottawa, Canada
Presented Trauma-Informed Care in the Context of MAiD
To CAMAP Conference

November 2017
Montreal, Canada
Presented Besrour Center Narrative Working Group: Appreciative Inquiry and Story-telling for mutual understanding with Vincent Cubaka
To Family Medicine Forum, College of Family Physicians of Canada

September 2017
Calgary, Alberta
Presented Narratives towards Social Accountability
To Humanities in Healthcare group, Cumming School of Medicine

September 2017
Calgary, Alberta
Taught Power and Privilege with Jill Andres
To University of Calgary Class of 2019 (second year) medical students

April 2017
Hammamet, Tunisia
Workshopped Harvesting and Hearing: Narratives for Authentic Collaboration and Learning 
To TUFH World Summit on Social Accountability

November 2016
Rio de Janeiro
Presented Family Medicine Faculty Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Qualitative Needs Assessment with Paul Larson and Maria Colon 
To WONCA World conference of Family Doctors

November 2016
Rio de Janeiro
Presented WONCA Storybooth with Bob Woollard, Russell Dawe, Clayton Dyck
To WONCA World conference of Family Doctors

June 2016
Calgary, Canada
Presented People-centered Care
To the patient-centered care committee at the Peter Lougheed Hospital

February 2016
Gondar, Ethiopia
Presented Family Medicine Overview, Comprehensive Care, Coordination of Care, and Patient-Centred Care
To 30 faculty and residents at the University of Gondar Faculty of Medicine

November 2015
Calgary, Canada
Presented Compassion and Resilience
To Imagineering a Compassionate Calgary, 
Inner City Health Symposium, Cumming School of Medicine

June 2015
Calgary, Canada
Gave a TEDx Talk: From Hero to Humility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cueaBuLaXdY
TEDxYYC, Jack Singer Concert hall, 1800 in attendance

February 2015
Calgary, Canada
Gave a PKN Talk: Balancing in Global Health with Primary Care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOwQ1pQgxY8
To PechaKucha YYC #21, over 500 audience members

November 2014
Quebec City, Canada
Presented Narratives in Global Family Medicine
To Canadian and international members of Sadok Besrour Center 

November 2014
Nairobi, Kenya
Presented Updates in Family Medicine Globally, Scholarship and Research, Effective Presentation of Research, and Reflective Critique of Research
To participants at East Africa Family Medicine Initiative

September 2013
Yangon, Myanmar
Presented Contextualizing Family Medicine Curriculum to Myanmar and Blueprinting the Assessment Process
To novel Family Medicine faculty of Myanmar Medical Association Section of GP’s

October 2013
Kampala, Uganda
Presented Scaling up Family Medicine in East Africa: the role of partnerships
To participants at the Ugandan National Family Medicine Scientific Conference

November 2012
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presented Lao-Calgary Partnership in Family Medicine
To participants of the CFPC Sadok Besrour Conference

October 2012
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Presented Private-Public Partnerships for Global Health:  University of Calgary partners with local NGO to support global medical education projects
To participants in conference entitled Global Health in the Shifting World Economy at the Canadian Conference on Global Health

October 2010
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Presented Resident Assessment in Global Health Using Portfolios
To participants in the Global Health Educators Workshop at the Canadian Conference on Global Health

October 2010
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Presented Internet Collaboration and Resident Assessment
To participants in the Global Health Pre-conference Workshop for the Family Medicine Forum

June 2010 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presented Resident Assessment Using Portfolios 
To Canadian Family Medicine Council’s National Working Group on Resident Assessment

November 2008
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Presented Resident Assessment on the Hospitalist Rotation
To participants in the Hospitalist Conference

Broad Areas of Interest:

Trauma and Stress

• Three Joyful Phases of Trauma Recovery

• What Your Body Knows About Toxic Stress

• InterGenerations: Ancestral and Preverbal Trauma

• Personalized Tools for Post-Traumatic Growth

• Your Body Knows How to Heal: Havening, EFT, and Tremoring

• Breaking Down Complex Trauma

• From Freeze to Freedom: Shifting Addictions and Dissociation

• Is Everyone really this Angry? Or is it Trauma?

• The Language of our Subconscious: Harness Imagery and Metaphor

Systems Change

• All Things Fall Apart: how to Grieve and Recovery

• Psychological Safety in the Future of Work

• Healing the Collective: social innovation and design thinking to help the community solve its own challenges

• The Equity Path to Heal Health Systems

Academic Medicine

• Transdisciplinary Medicine: What does it mean to Generalize

• Medical Assisted Death in Canada

• Storytelling for Good: How Stories Heal

• What Can a Portfolio Say about Medical Trainees

Global Health

• Family Medicine Stories from Across the World

• How do we get Better Primary Care Where it’s Needed?

• Global Partnerships: First you Listen, then you Listen Some More

  
  

  
  

  
  

Podcast Guest

This is the Climate Crisis - with Michael Shaw (released 2020)

Embracing Your Mortality - with Sue Brayne (released 2020)

The Sprawl - with Jeremy Klaszus (released 2020)

Women of Alberta Poli - (released 2021)

Lessons to My Younger Self - with Sam East (released 2022)

Make Some Noise - with Andrea Owen (released 2022)

Courageously.U - with Tara Bixby (requested)

Culture and Leadership - with Marie Gervais (released 2022)

Mood Ring - with Anna Borges (recorded)

Interview with Sujin Lee on Facebook Live 2022 (on YouTube)

Interview with Lawrence Yang - on YouTube

Unhinged and Dysregulated - with R Renee (recorded 2023)

Just Mental - with Kendal Russell (released 2023)

Voices of Women Physicians - with Dr. Tatyana Reznik (released 2023)

National Arts Centre Ottawa - with Dr. Jillian Horton (on Facebook live)

Diet Culture is BS - With Trina Dorrah (released)

The Other Human in the Room - with Joan Chan MD (released 2023)

Close the Chapter - with Kristen D. Boice (recorded May/23)

Labarynth - with Amanda Knox

Becoming Trauma-Informed - with Lee Cordell released 

Habits on Purpose - with Kristi Angevine released

It’s not Just You - with Kara Popper

Arash’s World - with Arash Farzaneh released

Complex Trauma Recovery - with Kina Wolfenstein released

The Spoonie Podcast - with Emily Fraser

Beyond Well - with Sheila Hamilton

Love Addicts - with Nour Shaaban (recorded)

The Tonic - with Jamie Bussin (released Sept 2)

the Mind Body Brain Project Podcast - with Paul Taylor (recorded)

Rachel Kanarowski on LinkedIn Live - released

Women Life and Science - with Cecelia Zapata-Harms

Resilience Unraveled - with Russell Thackeray recorded