Please join us for the second Healthy People, Healthy Planet Speaker Series! This virtual series will focus on promoting healthy behaviour with a focus on the intersection of lifestyle interventions and planetary health to achieve optimal wellbeing.

Dr. Christy Gibson: What does your body already know about healing stress? Somatic skills for self-regulation

Objectives:

Physicians are beginning to understand that lifestyle interventions are key to sustained balance between the interconnected nature of our human body with the greater levels of ecosystems. What is so often neglected is creating agency within the nervous system. Given the toxic stressors that we collectively face-now more than ever-we all need these skills (as clinicians, as humans, as families, as communities). Learn the natural ways that your body is already able to restore a parasympathetic, healing state of calm and connectedness. Multiple modalities-including guided imagery, breath, gaze, soothing touch, and tapping-will be taught in an experiential learning session. Climate psychology will also be integral to this discussion, given the ongoing stress of the polycrisis.