02/03/2023
Take What You Need Conference
A mental health focused event showcasing unique keynote speakers that will share helpful tips and tricks. Coping mechanisms, perspective shifts & so much more. Each attendee can expect to leave our conference with a "wellness toolkit" of knowledge, as well as a booklet filled wellness tips!
A portion of ticket proceeds will be donated to the Jake Beers Creative & Mental Health Fund.
Ticket Cost: $33.96
If you would like to attend but cannot afford a ticket, please message this page.
Grab your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/take-what-you-need-conference-tickets-488149286657
Where: St. Paul’s Centre
62 Peter Street N, Orillia ON
When: Friday May 5th 2023
From 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Open networking hour from 9:00 until 10:00 pm
Drumroll please.. let's introduce our wellness gurus! Aka, our keynote speakers lined up for an evening of knowledge, self help, community and kindness!
✨LET'S CHAT WITH Alexa Tomaszewski
Alexa is an advanced RYT with over 1000 hours of training and over 2000 hours trenching experience. She is a reiki master and energy working and fuses these modalities into her yoga teachings. She also teaches yoga nidra guided meditation as a tool to heal stressed out nervous systems and overwhelmed humans. In many hours on the mat Alexa has learned the power of the breath and it's application both on and off the mat.
Wellness toolkit topic - BREATHING AND YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM
Alexa guides us to learn about how to:
◦ Retrain Your Brain Through Breathing
◦ How can our breath add to our stress?
◦ What types of breathing techniques are beneficial to finding relaxation?
◦ Why is the impact on your breath to the nervous system, heart and digestive system?
◦ And so much more!
✨LET'S CHAT WITH Ashley O'Connell
Ashley spent 10 years working in the healthcare field as a PSW and then an RPN. She started moving into a Holistic Practice in 2008. Ashely teaches all levels of Reiki, is a Holistic Hypnosis Instructor & organizes Shamanic Journeys to Peru
Wellness toolkit topic - YOUR GUIDING LIGHT
Ashley guides us to learn about:
How to go within to peacefully and joyfully navigate the world around you.
THE HIGHER SELF
◦ What it is
◦ What it feels like
◦ How to access it
◦ When to access it
◦ Why to access it
✨LET'S CHAT WITH Dan Brooks & Kasia Kaminska
With over fifteen years of combined research and delivery of anxiety relief, Kasia and Danny have developed tRt Tapping & Release Technique as a response to the growing number of individuals adversely affected by anxiety and stress. Studies have shown that anxiety not only lowers a person's ability to rationalize and perform successfully, but it is also a causative factor in all autoimmune diseases and illnesses.
Wellness toolkit topic- TAPPING INTO RELIEF
Dan & Kasia guide us to learn:
60 Seconds to Anxiety Release.
It's time to stop the cycles of anxiety before they begin and tap into a new feeling of empowerment and emotional self-control knowing you have the right tools to move forward with confidence! Move to the next level of emotional freedom through this gentle, yet powerful, self-help technique.
◦ Release your anxiety
◦ Lower stress levels in just 1 minute!
◦ Improve your overall feeling of wellbeing.
✨LET'S CHAT WITH Kenesha Tuesdai Lewis
Kenesha has been an entrepreneur for a decade mainly as a photographer from Barrie, Ontario. Kenesha states that, "photography to me is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself, and seeking truth has become a habit to where I have found myself. I've learned to click with people, rather than with the shutter. Photography teaches you to see."
Wellness toolkit topic: - THE MINDSET FOR MANIFESTING
Kenesha guides us to learn how to:
◦ Be clear
◦ Be consistent
◦ Take Action & Raise Your Vibration
◦ Relax and Trust
◦ Eliminate any limiting beliefs
✨LET'S CHAT WITH Cheryl Parker
Cheryl Parker is a Grief Expert and author. She’s certified in adult teaching, facilitates workshops with individuals in group settings and one on one, since 2006. Featured in newspapers, magazines, and appearances on several TV and radio programs, she is committed to people being free to be real.
Cheryl will guide you through the grief process to get complete with the pain that grief can cause, allowing you to transition and restore your joy and vitality for life.
Wellness toolkit topic- FROM GRIEF TO GRACE
Cheryl guides us to learn about:
◦ Definitions and difference between Grief and Mourning
◦ Stigmas, Cliches and Myths about Grief
◦ Intellectual statements vs Emotional Statements
◦ When normal stress becomes abnormal stress (sympathetic nervous system vs parasympathetic nervous system) Tools and how to move to Parasympathetic
◦ 6 Keys to Mental Health
✨LET'S CHAT WITH Ginny Connon
Ginny Connon is a coach, clairaudient (clear listener) and writer. Coaching beginner ice skating for over 15 years, her personal journey for greater generational healing led to certifying in present-centred relationship coaching. She specializes in Angelic connection and work-life balance with crystal healing. "Taking small gutsy steps towards self-awareness reconnected appreciation for my holistic listening levels. Sharing my resilience is a heart healing balancer."
Wellness toolkit topic - SHARING YOUR RESILIENCE
Ginny guides us to learn about:
◦ Balancing Basics - How noticing can keep up your confidence
◦ Define Your Gutsy
◦ Gutsy Tips to Strengthen & Share Resilience
◦ Self-Awareness
◦ Conflict and the power of ‘You’
◦ Timing Your Intentions and Doubling them Up
Host: Vanessa Wilson
Come as you are, take what you need.
ALL ARE WELCOME.
We are looking for event sponsors, please inquire within the page for more details.
