Mindsilike

Maxan Ferguson-Dyer Facilitator- CEO & Founder (She/Her/They/ Them) 

Started her career as a stem cell scientist, working in labs and then moving into direct stem cell collections, finally before leaving London, England was working for DKMS, the worlds biggest stem cell donation and transplantation organization as a medical coordinator. 

Now a Public health MSc Student with a focus on BIPOC & LGBTQ+ Wellness.

Moving to Canada, started her on a journey of self discovery, wanting to team all of her expertise with her passion for educating and helping others. She wanted a business that would take a holistic approach to education.

As of 2018 specializing in decolonizing sexual health, education and wellness, Becoming Certified Reiki Master and supporting others healing through guided mediations, as well as other wellness practices.

Maxan also recognized the importance for education on topics, such as finance, sustainability, natural trustworthy and environmentally friendly products.

Minimalism, living with intention, spirituality, veganism, and other topics that make up the intersections of modern life, steeped in connecting to the past, through healing and trauma informed practices.

Maxan and her Team is dedicated to Well being. Our Education studio is made up of truly amazing and spiritual people, all of whom have dedicated their lives to spreading the message of mindfulness and health to our clients. We’ve been a certified Wellness Studio in Canada since 2020, sharing our beliefs that life should be lived with joy, gratitude, and a dedication to being present in the moment. These feelings inform and guide our teachings, which are focused on helping our clients better connect to themselves, their communities, and to the rest of the world.

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Healthcare Scientist/Public Health(BIPOC/LGBTQ+ Specialization) MSc Student

Certified Reiki Master

CEO/Founder Blu Lunar Wellness

Alexandra Yeboah is a writer, storyteller facilitator, and mental health advocate living in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. She has a background in journalism and has worked close to seven years in nonprofit communications in various social media management, digital marketing and content creation roles. To date, Alexandra remains committed to informing, inspiring and empowering audiences through transformative storytelling. Her love of curiosity and adventure-seeking is what often drives her quest to discover new things, meet new people and find compelling stories to tell.

She is especially keen on sharing about the beauty of storytelling and the amazing way it can bring communities closer together, build legacies and ultimately change lives. In the past, Alexandra has held workshops with Ripple Foundation, SpotLight on Literacy, Kennedy Youth Shelter, and Friends with Regent Park. She also serves as a volunteer member of the Peel Poverty Lived Experience Table. 

April 25th, 2021 I was a guest on Mediation Station with Gregg Fenten, AccFM (OAFM)

Gregg has been actively involved for over twenty-one years in a range of processes to assist individuals, couples and families regarding the changing nature of their relationships. His current work includes doing mediation, facilitation, coaching, training and consulting.

He works as a triage specialist at the Family Courts in Toronto as an Information and Referral Coordinator, coaching with York University's Certificates in Dispute Resolution, Advanced Certificate in Dispute Resolution and Family Mediation Programs.

Gregg is an instructor with the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies

He offers mentorships/apprenticeships with individuals looking to acquire the core skills to be an effective communicator. He has a long history of experience in community mediation/development starting with Conflict Mediation Services of Downsview (CMS-D) in Toronto as an intern, volunteer, mediator and case manager to ultimately become the Director, Community Transformation Program.

In February 2005, Gregg founded radio program Mediation Station which he writes, produces and hosts each Sunday from 8 to 9 p.m. EST on CHHA 1610 AM in Toronto, Canada.

I'm certified as a Restorative Justice Mediator & had the pleasure of learning from Gregg Fenten during my time at CMS-D. I definitely use my mediation skills supporting Youth through Family conflict; social justice issues.

 We  talked about the pandemic, Youth/parental conflict, how living with Youth at different stages of Development can be challenging

How to mediate situations without losing control. 

Mediation Station-Gregg Fenten

Negotiation-Communication Consultant/Mediator/Trainer/Community Developer

Phyllis Reid-Jarvis, CEO at Ultimate Potentials, an organizational development business

consultancy. With expertise in organizational psychometric assessments, customized leadership

training and development and executive and strategic coaching, Phyllis and her team helps

organizations achieve their goals.

Living a life working in a full-timer career, taking care of her family, and pursuing part-time studies put Celeste in burn-out, feeling fatigued, dealing with constipation and digestive disorders put her hormones completely out-of-wack. After going from doctor to doctor with no concrete answers about my own health concerns I went to school to study holistic medicine and received my diploma in Holistic Nutrition diploma from Edison Institute of Nutrition in 2013 and worked toward becoming a Certified Metabolic Balance Coach. She furthered her studies to accomplish Certified Natural Medicine Practitioner in 2016.

Celeste’s continuous appetite for learning drove her to progress toward becoming a Kundalini Yoga and Sing Bowl Healer. She is the author of two books one called Diabetes 2 Nutrition which was a number one best seller in 2017. Celeste just completed her second book called Healing my Broken Spirit. Rejuvenate, Retore Redefine You.

This book is perfect for any women who has gone through a relationship change throughout the course of her life to embark on the journey of healing. Celeste London was rewarded as the top 100 Black Women to watch for with the Canadian International Black Women Event in 2016.  In October of 2018 Celeste London got chosen to be a Meet the Motivators Unapologetic Confidence in Motion where she spoke about Healing a Broken Spirit with Food Medicine.  

Through Celeste London’s expertise in Holistic Hormone Medicine, she has helped several of her clients achieve the balance of resetting their hormones. She offers custom-made individualized hormone nutrition counseling; menu plans and other therapeutic services that promote quality life toward women who are dealing with a hormone health issue.

Celeste London

Chantelle Barham is an educator, music major, singer/songwriter and was previously a choral conductor for many years. During her undergraduate days, she wrote and arranged music and vocals for plays and had the opportunity to co-direct the choral section for a musical that has caught the eyes of Durham’s Board of Education titled “Diverse” by Paula Walker and Hanna Andrew. Chantelle completed a Specialized Honours Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts at York University and a Bachelor of Education Degree at Western University. She is currently a Long-Term Occasional Teacher for the Durham District School Board.

Her latest project: “MusicalTruths!”.

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Kamili Yoga™ is an Afrocentric system for Black holistic wellness. From the African Swahili word for “complete” and the Indian Sanskrit word for “union,” Kamili Yoga™ is born of the need for more systems of Yoga that center and celebrate cultures of the African continent and diaspora.

 Kamili Yoga™ consists of three structured core tenets, each of which is rooted in the exploration of Pan-African knowledge and traditions, from the African ancestors spread across the Motherland to the Black descendants dispersed around the world.

Nya Daley (she/her)Social Worker, Educator, Yoga Facilitator

Cass from Northern Ashanti! Get your African Lifestyle here!

Tsa Mae is a graduate of the University of Akron, (Akron, OH) where she studied Political Science/Criminal Justice, earning a bachelors degree. She then returned to Toronto and completed a diploma in Social Service Work at Loyalist College. After graduating, Tsa Mae began a career in child welfare, where she worked directly with children and families facing a wide array of challenges for 10 years. Using solution-focused techniques, as well as, mindfulness based approaches, she has been able to improve the mental health and well-being of those she works with. Tsa Mae is a trained guided meditation facilitator and is currently completing her Master’s of Education degree at U of T, OISE in Counselling Psychology.

As a South Asian occupational therapist born and raised in San Francisco, I understand health and wellness from diverse perspectives and value the connection of culture and healing. I became a Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider to incorporate traditional and holistic methods with my clinical education and training.

Early in my career, I learned to provide my patients with the highest level of care while working for top Bay Area hospitals, including Stanford Health Care, Sutter Health's Mills-Peninsula, and San Francisco VA Health Care System. In my experience as a clinical educator, while running an independent occupational therapy mental health clinic, and working in hospitals, I found the greatest gaps in care were in mental health, wellness, and advocacy.

As an occupational therapist, I treat both physical and mental health and address every aspect of a person's life. I work to make wellness and mental health accessible to my community. My focus is on helping individuals and professionals meet their goals to improve daily life and work performance.

Simple is best. You should be celebrating victories; it's easier to give up when the challenge is too great. I break up steps into realistic and achievable components based on your abilities and strengths. Then build on your successes until your goals are met. All sessions are personalized, whether group or individual.

Paula Holland has been researching mind enhancement techniques for 10 years. Her first mind enhancement program, Mind Mansion, was instrumental in helping clients to profoundly shift their mindsets in positive game changing ways.

 During her studies, she noticed the subversive side of the mind, namely mind control and how mind control was being used to negatively impact individuals and corporately in people groups. In examining people from her racial background, Paula recognized clear patterns of mind control that have been used on Black people and began working on methods to break the control and use the mind enhancement techniques she had discovered to redirect her own mindset and help others do the same. 

She now shares this vision of a redirected mindset with her tribe. Paula lives in Northern California.

Paula Holland | CEO

https://www.reverseslaverycurse.com/

https://youtu.be/xItReVG9g_s

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Georgia Fullerton BA, ExAT

Georgia Fullerton is an Expressive Arts Therapist, Visual Artist, Arts-Educator and Public Speaker. She is the former Vice President of the Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association, current board member at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario and holds a seat  on the Program Advisory Committee for the School of Media Art and Design at Durham  College, Oshawa campus. In 1985 Georgia received her diploma in Visual Arts at Red Deer  College in Red Deer, Alberta before she transferred to Toronto, Ontario to earn a Bachelor of  Arts degree at York University.

JustGeorgia®-Expressive Arts to Heal the Heart was launched in 2013 as a therapeutic arts based business serving the Durham Region and the Greater Toronto Area. JustGeorgia® offers creative arts workshops and community events focused on the art of healing and optimal well being. From her work in community, Georgia forms collaborative partnerships with The Royal

Ontario Museum, Lakeridge Health, Family Services Durham, Elementary Teachers of Toronto,  Durham Black Educators Network, The Regional Municipality of Durham and a number of  school boards and not-for –profit organizations.

Dynamic visual art that explores the relationship between the real and imagined, and reveals emotions and memories of her girlhood and Jamaican roots, Georgia works with an intuitive approach and an abstract expressionist style. Her original art explores the phenomenon of relational energy through colour, form and texture – and has exhibited in public and private

collections throughout Canada, United States, Australia and the Caribbean.

Georgia’s mission is to bolster awareness around the arts and educate all peoples in the  acceptance of art making and empathy as life skills. Engaging all sides of her creative prowess, Georgia continues to deepen her understanding and practise of the arts in the mental health  sector. She practises as a counsellor and Expressive Arts Therapist at The Insight Clinic in  downtown Whitby, Ontario and creates her original art at her home studio in Ajax, Ontario.

“I follow a path of spontaneous exploration and stay sensitively aware of feelings, thoughts, sounds and movement as I create -- keeping process over product as my primary goal.”

Georgia Fullerton BA, ExAT

Master Art Guide | Mentor

Creator of the gasp® Technique

Email: CreateMyArtStoryGee@Gmail.com

Christine McLean CEO | CEM Writing Services 

Christine is a fun-loving Jamaican girl who is passionate about writing. She is more than just a writer though. Her background is in teaching with a Bsc in Mathematics with Education and she has seven years as a high school mathematics teacher under her belt. She also has an Msc in Corporate Finance (with Distinction) because she always wanted to learn finance and help people experience financial freedom.

Chloe is guided spirit and a holistic health and consent educator doing her work as "The ReiQueer". Believing fiercely in the faith and strength within QBIPOC communities, she stands to hold space for and witness the magic and self-healing power of  herself and others.

Chloe K. ҉ Certified Reiki Practitioner ҉ Channel for Divine Light

Grounding technique to help you pause. Have you taken the time to notice where your tension lies? 

Let's take 10 mins to do a Body Scan; Use physical sensations in the body to anchor your awareness in the present moment

The Brown Sugar Boudoir began through the healing process of one of the co-founders, Imani who had a breakthrough that allowed her to embrace and appreciate her true authentic self. While alone, in the comfort of her home, as she enjoyed a glass of wine while in her lingerie, a vision of women gathering as their authentic selves sparked. Imani took it to her private social media and reached out for feedback about an evening full of lingerie, wine, and transparent conversation. Two of her friends, Kim and Keonte, replied with zeal and through the collaboration of what that evening would look like and The Brown Sugar Boudoir was born.

The Brown Sugar Boudoir is a sexy pajama party, girl’s night in, where we lay it all on the table and everything goes. It’s a virtual community and safe space for Black women, femmes, and women identifying persons to discover and practice self-love, soul care and communication while exploring their sensuality. The Brown Sugar Boudoir addresses the void of space available for Black women to come together and communicate their desires and frustrations and intentions for a better life. The Brown Sugar Boudoir’s goal is to ensure that our members can vocalize their needs and desires, and be their authentic selves without shame or judgement.

Kim M.

Co-Founder

The Brown Sugar Boudoir

Stephan Stewart

Author, Literacy Program Director, Event Coordinator, Program Director, Professor, Board Member and Learning Consultant.

During her teens, she directed summer youth activities. While at university, She founded the Achievers, a student-based, non-profit organization that provided summer employment opportunities for youths.

Stephan completed a Masters degree in Education, taught middle, high school, and college; ran for office, successfully directed and delivered training, growth and leadership development programs in the corporate arena then started my own company, Quires.

Her latest project: the completion of a video - Foster Positive Thoughts - has been used in two colleges and a university.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox?projector=1 

Quires Inc.

"Inspire Greatness; Nurture Self-Actualization"

Office:  1-647-557-4029

SMS:  1-647-557-4029

Fadhwa Yusuf is the Founder of The Gems Of Life, Host and Producer of  The Gems Of Life Show.

"When we work together with a purpose and intention great things happen". By Fadhwa

The Gems Of Life Show is an uplifting inspiring show that brings real life stories to the forefront. Igniting conversations that spark change and growth. Listen to Fadhwa's story of her Aspiration to reject labels & Aspire to her Purpose.

Fadhwa is an inspirational community leader who believes in others' potential.

Fadhwa has worked and volunteered in the KW area for many years, most memorable moments when she sees first hand the strength of the KW community coming together to support a great initiative.

Fadhwa's motto is Aspire to Inspire. Reach out to her on Linkedin!

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Thia shares her story of what it is like to be a young Black Professional woman. She faced racial discrimination at work

Thia details the impact of Intersectionality, microagressions & how things turned around in her favour

What if you're facing Microaggressions in the Workplace? How does this affect our Mental Health?

I want to introduce you to Thia, she created this short video clip to discuss Racism & microagressions in the Workplace

Thia was affected spritually & personally, she started to think there was something wrong with her. She ended up dealing with it& became resilient

Microgressions are defined as: subtle but harmful actions directed at targeted groups. Microaggressions may be verbal, behavioral, or environmental. Those targeted include people of color, females, those with disabilities, religious minorities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

People who communicate microaggressions may not believe their actions are racist. Sometimes, microaggressions are unintentional, and people are unaware they may be harming others. Do you agree?

Learn some strategies on how you can deal with racism in the Workplace

For more information about dealing with the effects of Racism, contact me www.caconsultants.org 

This is a powerful conversation involving Alethia Cadore and Kimberly Cato on Mediation Station’s show on Sunday March 29, 2020. Enjoy!