Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
Hope-Forward: Steadying Our Steps After a Challenging Season
January 25, 2022 at 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
| Location: | Online |
| Audience: | Carleton Community, Current Students, Staff and Faculty |
| Contact Email: | healthyworkplace@carleton.ca |
Join us for the annual Let’s Talk Event! This year’s guest speaker is Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe, pyschology and education instructor who specializes in resiliency, navigating stress and change, and personal wellness. Dr. Hanley-Dafoe’s talk is entitled: “Hope-Forward: Steadying Our Steps After a Challenging Season”, and will discuss practical strategies, grounded in global research and case studies, that help foster resiliency within ourselves and others.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Identify and recognize practices that foster everyday resiliency;
- Work with the barriers and facilitators of resiliency;
- Decrease stress during uncertainty; and
- Revisit and reaffirm values and priorities for life with work integration.
About the Speaker
Described as one of the most sought-after, engaging, thought-provoking, and truly transformative international speakers and scholars in her field, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is a multi-award-winning psychology and education instructor who specializes in resiliency, navigating stress and change, and personal wellness. Hanley-Dafoe’s work is inspired by personal experience. She learned resiliency from the ground up as someone who has experienced significant obstacles throughout her life. This, combined with more than 16 years of university teaching and research experience, makes Hanley-Dafoe’s work both accessible and relatable while providing realistic and sustainable strategies for understanding and practicing resiliency and wellness. Hanley-Dafoe is also the author of Calm Within the Storm, which outlines a kinder approach to taking on the challenges of life and developing authentic self-alignment and balance.
This talk is part of Carleton University’s annual Let’s Talk Day speaker series and is co-sponsored by Healthy Workplace, Carleton Leader, the Office of Student Affairs (Carleton Wellness), the Rideau River Residence Association, and the Department of Psychology.
If you are looking for mental health supports and resources, you can find some for faculty & staff here and for students here.
Registration
To register for this event, please fill out the form below. You will receive the Zoom link for the event, closer to the event date.