Speakers

Compassion Fatigue & Burnout: What Works? - Françoise Mathieu

Françoise Mathieu is the Executive Director of TEND, whose aim is to offer consulting and training to professionals on topics related to secondary trauma, empathic strain, burnout, self-care, wellness, and organizational health. Françoise is a Registered Psychotherapist and a subject matter expert on topics related to empathic strain and secondary trauma. Before becoming a specialist on stress and trauma, Françoise worked as a mental health provider doing both crisis management and employee support to military personnel, medical students, residents, law enforcement, 911 communicators, and other community mental health professionals in need of psychological support.

Françoise has worked with the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles Police, Cirque du Soleil, the Chief Coroner’s Office, and many other organizations that do high-stress exposed work. Françoise is a TedX speaker and is one of the founding members of the Secondary Traumatic Stress Consortium. She is also the author of “The Compassion Fatigue Workbook” which was published by Routledge in 2012 as well as several articles and publications.

The Productivity Trap: Why We Have to Stop - Prof Josh Cohen

Prof. Josh Cohen is a psychoanalyst in private practice and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at the Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of numerous books and articles on modern literature, psychoanalysis, and cultural theory. His books include ‘How to Read Freud’, ‘The Private Life’, ‘Not Working’ and ‘How to Live. What to Do’. He has written for Guardian, New Statesman, and TLS and appeared on BBC Radio 4. He lives in London.

Resetting Your Brain’s Dopamine Balance - Dr Anna Lembke

Dr. Anna Lembke received her undergraduate degree in Humanities from Yale University and her medical degree from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine.

Dr. Lembke was one of the first in the medical community to sound the alarm regarding opioid overprescribing and the opioid epidemic. In 2016, she published her best-selling book on the prescription drug epidemic, "Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016). Her book was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018). Dr Lembke’s latest book: "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence" is a New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller which explores how to combine the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery to find balance in an overindulgent era.

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