Facilitating Lectures:

• Studying Anxiety, Depression & Addiction
• Understanding Shame and Stigma around Mental Health
• The Difference Between Stress and Traumatic Stress
• QPR: Suicide Prevention Training

Aaron Moore is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and the co-founder of Solace Counseling. Originally from the gulf coast, Aaron graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, and completed Master’s degrees in Counseling and Biblical Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary. He works with adults and adolescents experiencing a wide range of struggles, addictions, marriage and relationships, depression, anxiety, spirituality, and others.

In addition to counseling, Aaron is a speaker and adviser for both Blu Matter Project and To Write Love On Her Arms, , speaking often at universities, churches, and to other professionals about addiction, brokenness, and healing. He is also the facilitator of the TWLOHA Move Conference. Aaron serves as a board member for the Orlando organization Downtown Credo, as well as The Now Matters More Foundation, which is dedicated to providing help for those struggling with addiction.

Facilitating Lectures:

• Anti Racist Wellness Culture, Biases & Power Dynamics
• Nervous System Regulation in Racial Trauma

Carla Beharry is an antiracism, anti-oppression and health equity consultant, writer, speaker, and a mental health advocate. She specialies in guiding wellness professionals, educators, non-profits and healthcare agencies to move beyond cognitive learning to integrate actionable antiracism and restorative education + healing practices into their spaces.Carla is the founder of WOKE WO/MEN’S Movement Stories of Resilience + Challenge in WOKE WO/MEN Speaking Events. She built this platform for racialized and marginalized individuals to have a space to share personal stories of overcoming adversity. The stories of marginalized individuals often go unheard, and the mental health impacts of this isolation can have extreme impacts on Black, Brown & Indigenous People of Colour who live carrying the weight of trauma and anxiety.

Carla is a strong advocate of cultural and racial justice, and my events, classes, workshops, retreats, and mentorship opportunities prioritize inclusivity for BIPOC folks by seeing the world through an anti-oppression and anti-racism lens. As a bi-cultural, multi-ethnic, cis-gendered, able-bodied Woman, she works alongside individuals, families and couples as a life coach. In 2020, she was awarded the Diamond Award for the best life coach in Waterloo Region, and specializes in guiding individuals to navigate intercultural relationships and racial trauma.

Facilitating Lectures:

• Understanding the Important Link between Nutrition & Mental Health

Elaine Clark is a Toronto-based embodied resilience educator & nutritionist. With over 6000 hours experience in directing teacher trainings, trauma-informed yoga classes, workshops, retreats and private/public sessions, she has assisted women of all ages and ability levels to achieve self-compassion, self-regulation and energy management. Elaine holds an honours degree in Health Sciences, is registered with the Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT-500 advanced yoga educator, and is a certified Trauma Sensitive Yoga provider. The results of working with Elaine have been described as “a newfound capacity for self-inquiry,” an “evolution into healthy embodiment,” and “an empowered maturation”.

Drawing on extensive study in nutrition to inform a holistic approach in her teachings, Elaine offers wisdom and resources for the work of freeing your best self.

Facilitating Lectures:

• Teaching and Participating in Trauma Informed Yoga Group Lessons
• Learning to Create Safer Spaces in the Wellness World
• Appropriate and Inappropriate Aims in Mindful, Trauma-Informed Yoga

Elizabeth Vecchio became a Yoga Instructor in 2010 after completing a BFA. Hons in Movement. From the start of her training she had been drawn to creating consciousness to movement and breath through Classic, Hatha & Flow classes.

In 2014 she attended her first Trauma Sensitive Yoga Training and began working with BluMatter Project as an in studio yoga advisor. Since then, she has Studied with David Emerson of TCTSY and has enrolled in over 100 hours of Trauma Sensitive Yoga Trainings.

In working with BluMatter project for the past five years, she has developed relationships with over 200 participants who directly suffer from identified mental health illnesses.As a yoga and wellness educator, Elizabeth has carved out her path leading from a Trauma Informed lens to those who suffer from anxiety, self doubt, and ruminating thoughts. She ensures her students remain safe while giving space for them to explore the deeper side of movement; finding the subtleties, teaching them to listen to their own bodies, to reflect inward, what can they sense while they are there; and how does that make them feel? Her aim is to help participants learn self harmony and self regulation which is an incredible gift to be able to give.

Facilitating Lectures:

• Your Brain and Body Experiencing Fear
• Regulating Breath Practices
• Resiliency & Coping Methods

Janey Brown is a performance veteran, international speaker, trauma-informed coach and the founder of Fearce Academy. Over the last two decades, Brown has performed in front of thousands of people, written songs with Grammy award-winning and multi-platinum producers, and has coached a variety of artists. She has also impacted people of all ages across North America with her wellness education and motivational keynotes, and has years of experience teaching movement, mindfulness and mental resilience to corporate executives as well as athletes in the NHL, Olympics, NASCAR and MLS.

Deeply concerned with the rising global suicide rates, Brown now deploys her coaching mostly in the field of “mental fitness,” otherwise known as mindset. Since 2014, she’s been involved with the nonprofit “Blu Matter Project” and co-leads their “Mental Health and Trauma Sensitive Training”, which includes suicide prevention education. It’s no secret to the public that for most of her life Brown has struggled with mental illness herself due to untreated complex PTSD. Though, what was once her fear is now the fuel that operates “Fearce Academy,” a wellness company Brown built to help people improve emotional intelligence and achieve optimal mindset in their personal lives, so they can “radiate confidence in front of any audience.”

When Brown isn’t coaching or performing, she’s devoted to furthering her University studies in the field of psychology and trauma to better serve her community and the world.