Keynote Topics

Mental health is a hot topic these days. Wherever you look, people are talking about it—on social media, in the news, at corporate and school meetings. While it’s exciting that businesses, schools, and communities are interested in shattering stigmas and opening up dialogue surrounding mental health, it’s becoming more and more apparent that in certain places mental health is nothing but a trend.

 

Has mental health just become a buzzword to justify any and all behaviors or situations?

 

In this presentation Dr. Kane addresses the basics of mental health to cut through the noise. This presentation helps to educate about common diagnoses, symptoms, treatment options and modalities, when and how to seek treatment, as well as when someone has a mental illness or just a bad day.

Leaders know that mental health needs are at an all-time high. Yet, many managers clam up when an employee comes to them with a mental health concern. Why is this?

 

84% of managers accept that employee wellbeing is their responsibility, yet less than a quarter (24%) of managers have received any training in mental health.

 

No one wants to be the one to accidentally break HIPAA regulations, jeopardize an employee’s health, or cross a line of providing too much information. Join Dr. Kane as she delves into strategies to build the mental health acumen of your managers and HR Professionals.

 

**This presentation specifically focuses on tools and strategies for leadership personnel to address workplace mental health concerns such as productivity, absenteeism, disruptive behavior at work, and turnover.

WARNING: The contents of this presentation can lead to uncontrollable revenue generation, dramatic spikes in bank balances, followed by fits of joy and happiness. 

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The mental health of each employee has a ripple effect on your organization. Collectively, it impacts each person’s well-being, their co-workers, the business’s bottom line, and even society as a whole.

 

5/5 of your employees have mental health—it is who we are.

 

All of them could benefit from a mentally healthy work environment. Learn the strategies you need to build mental health awareness, positivity, and support for your organization and its employees.

 

*Dr. Kane can also provide assessments for an additional fee to determine the specific mental health needs of your organization and then cater her presentation and recommendations based on the results.

We’re living through a sustained traumatic experience on a scale that has not been seen in recent history. The catastrophic impact of the pandemic and national unrest have left individuals, communities, and businesses shell-shocked.

 

In truth, we’re all still recovering.

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We’re struggling to remain productive despite the pressures and demands of our new realities, while facing the daunting task of reopening and healing in a cloud of uncertainty.

 

While it’s true the workplace can be a source of stress for many, it can also be a place of healing. Organizations possess the power to create or strengthen a psychologically healthy environment. The road ahead doesn’t need to be murky.

 

By drawing from research, her professional experience as an executive, and 20+ years of industry experience as a mental health expert, Dr. Kane provides practical tools, tricks, and tips to take to step into our new normal with greater confidence.

Has your organization grapled with a suicide, natural disaster, injury, violence, or other crisis? Most businesses have developed a crisis plan to help address a number of difficult situations that could negatively impact their employees, customers, and the communities they serve.

 

Wouldn’t it be impressive if we could prevent these situations from happening all together?

It would!

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Dr. Kane isn’t a “Miracle Max”—she can’t make all tragedies go away, but what Dr. Kane can provide is her trade-secret counsel, research, and techniques.

 

In this presentation your organization will learn to develop a culture of prevention versus intervention. Organizations with a strong focus on prevention have happier employees and make more money. 

 

Attendees will gain skills to implement policies, programs, and procedures to help prevent crises, as well as the tools to address psychological and emotional aftermaths if a tragedy does strike.

A trauma-informed approach provides educators, school administrators, and paraeducators with tools to better engage with students affected by trauma.

 

This training focuses on understanding childhood trauma, how a child who has experienced trauma can be triggered, behaviors related to trauma, attachment styles, and techniques to work with traumatized children and/or youth.

 

The goal of this presentation is to bolster the confidence of our teachers and/or administrators to use their healthy connections with students to improve classroom engagement, behaviors, and life skills.

 

Dr. Kane will help teachers learn skills and techniques to establish trauma-informed classrooms and schools such as routines, forming and maintaining effective student-teacher relationships, the acquisition of skills for increasing their own self-awareness and emotional management, and tips for maintaining a trauma-sensitive classroom or school.

Dr. Kane is the author of two books: Shell Cracking: Leaving the Past Behind and Fractured Souls Splintered Memories: Unlocking the Boxes of Trauma. She has also spent 20+ years counseling individuals through trauma recovery. It’s safe to say that she knows a thing or two about trauma and how it impacts the brain.

 

In this presentation you’ll learn about your brain’s emotion networks and why our brains are resistant to change. Don't worry, it won't get too academic, but Dr. Kane will explore the science behind trauma, too. You’ll explore common behaviors to suppress trauma and why they don’t work, as well as the topic of neuroplasticity—our brain’s ability to change, adapt, and heal.

 

Finally, Dr. Kane will provide recommendations and resources for seeking psychotherapy, meditation, and medication if needed to help make your brain more flexible.

“I often say we are creating the most social, anti-social generation of all time, and something needs to change.”

 

Dr. Kane is well-known for her talks on the brain—especially as it relates to electronics and their impact.

 

This is the smartphone generation, and it’s also the generation experiencing higher rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide ideation than any other previous generation.

 

Is there a connection between teenage mental health and their usage of electronics?

 

Explore the development of the teenage brain, brain chemicals as they relate to emotional stability and resilience in teens, and why 8 hugs a day for 8 seconds may be the most powerful thing you can do for your teenager.