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Apr. 19
Topic To Be Announced
This is a private event.
Find out more »Jun. 19
Fostering Resilience in a Stressed Culture / The Hungry Ghost: A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Addiction, from Heroin to Workaholism.
Fostering Resilience in a Stressed Culture: Many more children than in the past are diagnosed these days with various learning and behaviour difficulties and many have problems learning from negative experiences. Schools are also having to ...
Find out more »Why We Get Sick: the Hidden Connection Between Stress and Disease
Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer’s disease? Is there such a thing as a "cancer personality"? In this talk, Dr. Maté will share his insights into how dis...
Find out more »Returning to Ourselves: Trauma and Resilience
What is meant by trauma? Many people are not unwell enough to be hospitalised but continue to struggle at work, in relationships and socially. Clinical intervention is more likely to involve medication or limited therapies - but just what w...
Find out more »Ayahuasca Retreat With Dr. Gabor Maté And Richard Condon
We invite you to join us in a truly groundbreaking program of deep healing, individual transformation and personal mastery. This very special retreat will be a powerful synthesis of ancient Amazon healing traditions with pioneering ontologi...
Find out more »Jul. 19
Peer Orientation: Why Children are Stressed, Why Parents and Teachers Are Disempowered and How To Restore a Healthy Balance in Adult-Child Relationships / Fostering Resilience in a Stressed Culture
Opening keynote: Peer Orientation: Why Children are Stressed, Why Parents and Teachers are Disempowered and How To Restore a Healthy Balance in Adult-Child Relationships. Parenting and teaching are much harder these days than they used to b...
Find out more »Hornby Festival
Topic To Be Announced
Find out more »Sep. 19
Myth of Normal Overarching: Building Recovery Capital
For all our progress in understanding and treating mental illness, it continues to be a subject of misapprehension, prejudice and stigmatization. The reason for that may be not its strangeness but its familiarity. Very few individuals or fa...
Find out more »The Biology of Loss: What Happens When Attachments Are Impaired and How To Foster Resilience / Illness & Health in a Toxic Society
Plenary: The Biology of Loss: What Happens When Attachments Are Impaired and How To Foster Resilience This presentation, based on the best-selling Scattered Minds, Hold on To Your Kids, and In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, outlines the menta...
Find out more »Oct. 19
Fostering Resilience in a Stressed Culture
8:30am-4:30pm
Find out more »The Hungry Ghost: A Biospsychosocial Perspective on Addiction, from Heroin to Workaholism
This workshop, based on the best-selling book In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, draws on cutting-edge science to illuminate where and how addictions originate and what they have in common, whether the addiction is to drugs, alcohol, nicotine, ...
Find out more »The Hungry Ghost: A Biospsychosocial Perspective on Addiction, from Heroin to Workaholism
Private event at McGill University Overarching Topic: Compassion, Addiction and Culture Change
Find out more »Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and their Adult Children
Father-and-son Gabor and Daniel Maté lead this candid and probing inquiry into what it means to outgrow and transform past-based dynamics in adult parent-child relationships. The American teacher and author Ram Dass once said, "If you thin...
Find out more »The Future of Psychotherapy: The Promise of Plant and Psychedelic Medicines
Shamanic practices employing psychedelic plants have been used as healing modalities in traditional cultures for hundreds of years and are now increasingly popularized in the industrialized advanced countries as well. In recent times, there...
Find out more »Compassionate Inquiry
Compassionate Inquiry is a psychotherapeutic method developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world. Using Compassionate Inquiry, the therapist unveils the level of consciousness, mental cl...
Find out more »Nov. 19
Myth of Normal
For all our progress in understanding and treating mental illness, it continues to be a subject of misapprehension, prejudice and stigmatization. The reason for that may be not its strangeness but its familiarity. Very few individuals or fa...
Find out more »Myth of Normal
For all our progress in understanding and treating mental illness, it continues to be a subject of misapprehension, prejudice and stigmatization. The reason for that may be not its strangeness but its familiarity. Very few individuals or fa...
Find out more »Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and their Adult Children
Father-and-son Gabor and Daniel Maté lead this candid and probing inquiry into what it means to outgrow and transform past-based dynamics in adult parent-child relationships. The American teacher and author Ram Das once said, “If you thi...
Find out more »Dec. 19
Peer Orientation: Why Children are Stressed, Why Parents and Teachers are Disempowered and How to Restore a Healthy Balance in Adult-Child Relationships
Parenting and teaching are much harder these days than they used to be, and than they should be. In Hold On To Your Kids, Dr. Gabor Maté (with developmental psychologist Gordon Neufeld) forward a provocative and important view of why this ...
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