About the event
Multi-Faith Centre, Hart House, and Health and Wellness look forward to hosting this event that will look at how faith or spirituality contributes to our overall wellness and mental health while exploring connections among psychology, faith and spirituality. Q & A session will follow.
We encourage the UofT community to join the conversation!
Panelists
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Rebeckah Price
Wellness Advocate and Yoga Teacher
Rebeckah Price is a wellness advocate and yoga instructor (RYT 200), that draws on her wealth of knowledge of working in underserved, marginalized, Racialized, and immigrant communities in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. In 2015, Rebeckah founded irise yoga + wellness- as a way to connect, promote, bring awareness to and foster the inclusion of people of colour and other historically marginalized groups in yoga and wellness spaces.
In 2019, she co-founded the Well Collective to continue to expand her work on addressing the lack of representation of BIPOC wellness practitioners in wellness spaces.
Rebeckah's work is rooted in an intersectional understanding of power and harnessing the tools and resources to facilitate community change. With over 20 years in the not-for-profit sector as a Community Development and Engagement Specialist, Rebeckah has worked on and developed strategies and policies related to diversity & inclusion, equity, conflict resolution, settlement and integration and creating safe, cohesive communities.
Rebeckah uses her lived experience as a Woman of Colour and her unique expertise in community development and engagement to bridge and address the gap of diversity in the wellness industry through consulting, training and workshops, etc. In 2020, Rebeckah became a Nike trainer, the first Black Woman in Canada to represent the brand under the trainer title. Through her work Nike, she continues to bring yoga and mindfulness to marginalized and underrepresented communities in wellness.
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Tayyab Rashid
Using a culturally contextualized strengths-based approach, Dr. Rashid has worked on complex mental health issues of young adults for more than 20 years. In addition, he has also worked with survivors of Asian Tsunami (2004) and mass shootings (Christchurch, New Zealand, 2019), refugee families, and journalists reporting from the front lines. Recipient of the Outstanding Practitioner Award from the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and Chancellor Award from University of Toronto, Dr. Rashid has trained professionals internationally. His work has been published in textbooks of psychiatry and psychotherapy. His book, Positive Psychotherapy, with Dr. Martin Seligman, has been translated into several languages.
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Rabbi Julia Appel
Julia is a dynamic and cutting-edge rabbi and Jewish educator based in Toronto. She is passionate about creating a Jewish community that meets the challenges of the 21st century – in which Jewish identity is a choice not an obligation, and in which the old forms of Jewish life are losing relevance to a younger generation. She is a talented and powerful prayer-leader and a teacher of Jewish spirituality, contemplative practice, Chassidic thought, feminism, and many other topics. Rabbi Julia integrates innovative community-building methodologies, relational engagement pedagogy, data-driven approaches, and change-management theory to reimagine what Jewish communities are and can be.
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