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Dr Amanda L Rebar is an associate professor at Central Queensland University, an NHMRC Early Career Fellow, and the founding director of the Motivation of Health Behaviours (MoHB) Lab. She obtained her PhD from The Pennsylvania State University in 2013. Dr Rebar is a health psychology and public health researcher with interests in the motivation of health behaviours, specifically the non-conscious elements of motivation (e.g., habits, automatic evaluations). She is currently working on developin...

Dr. Cathy Kezelman AM is President of Blue Knot Foundation – National Centre of Excellence for Complex Trauma, a medical practitioner by training, and has a lived experience of childhood sexual and emotional abuse. She is committed to supporting people who have experienced violence, abuse and neglect to find pathways to healing and a trauma-informed approach to care which puts the humanity back into services. Blue Knot web address www.blueknot.org.au and Blue Knot Helpline and Redress Support S...

Chony Bowden is an experienced and qualified educator who began witnessing the positive inner healing work that a regular arts based practice has on people's mental health and well being. She is a big hearted adventurer and truth seeker, who throughout her life chose to find answers to the 'deeper' questions in life by taking risks. Her journey's took her to places such as; Papua New Guinea, some indigenous communities in NT, United Kingdom, Scotland, Amsterdam, Asia and America. Having come ba...

Dr Chapman completed his doctorate in measuring and positively influencing the physical activity patterns of adults with mental illness in 2016. His work spans research, mental health service and community sectors. He leads a multi-centre randomised controlled trial of interventions to promote physical activity in adults with mental illness, a health service improvement initiative to improve the focus on health and wellbeing of consumers, and implementation of state-wide healthy lifestyle interv...

Dr. Jud Brewer is an internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. His TED Talk ”A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit” has over 16 million views on YouTube. Dr. Jud is an associate professor at Brown University and executive medical director at Sharecare. His new book is called Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind Dr. Jud Brewer’s website Follow Dr. Jud Brewer on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Unwinding Anxiety (app...

Janet Reich Elsbach writes about how all the numerous things going on in the average life collide with making dinner on her blog, A Raisin & a Porpoise. She is also an editor and writing teacher who loves to make space for people to get their point across. Her book, Extra Helping: Recipes for Caring, Connecting, and Building Community One Dish at a Time, was recently published by Roost. araisinandaporpoise.com instagram: @raisinporpoise fb: https://www.facebook.com/araisinandaporpoise Music ...

Sebene Selassie is a teacher & author who guides people to remember and trust their belonging. Born in Ethiopia and raised in Washington DC, she began studying Buddhism 30 years ago as an undergraduate at McGill University where she majored in Comparative Religious Studies. She has an MA from the New School where she focused on race and cultural studies. For over 20 years, she worked with children, youth, and families nationally and internationally for small and large not-for-profit organizatio...

Lama Christopher is a Lineage Holder in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. For more than 20 years he has studied and practiced intensively under the guidance of his root teacher, Lama Kunzang Tenzin, as well as many other accomplished masters, both Himalayan and Western. Besides being committed to the authentic and accessible transmission of this timeless wisdom tradition, he is also a joyful parent and has enjoyed a professional career of four decades as a trusted legal and financial ...

Listed by the Institute for Scientific Information as the 30th “highest impact” psychologist in the world, Dr. Steven Hayes is a Nevada Foundation Professor of Psychology in the Behavior Analysis Program at the University of Nevada. An author of 46 books and nearly 650 scientific articles, he is especially known for his work on "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" or “ACT” which is one of the most widely used and researched new methods of psychological intervention over the last 20 years. Dr. Ha...