Resources

Cultivating Resilience & Well-Being

Dr. Kristin Neff, pioneering researcher of self-compassion, provides invaluable information about self-compassion, including exercises and guided meditations.

Rick Hanson: Resources for Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Rick Hanson, neuropsychologist and author, offers a wealth of resources including videos, slide shows, writings on the brain. You can also subscribe to Just One Thing free newsletter that offers 1 simple practice per week “for more joy, fulfilling relationships and more peace of mind.”

Linda Graham: Resources for Recovering Resilience

The Compassionate Mind Foundation

This foundation has been developed by Dr. Paul Gilbert to promote well-being through the scientific understanding and application of compassion.

The Greater Good Science Center

The Greater Good Science Center (University of California) is guided by a mission to study the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and to teach skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society.

The Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom

The Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom helps people “learn new ways to change the brain for the better.”

Sarah Peyton: Facilitating Connection with Self and Others

Moving toward Wholeness

Re-Envisioning Mental Health: Integrative, Person-Centred Care and Human Rights

Integrative Mental Health University

Health Justice

Health Justice uses research, education, and advocacy to improve the laws and policies that govern coercive mental health and substance use care in BC. Their current priority is to better support human rights and well-being in involuntary mental health and substance use care by reforming BC’s Mental Health Act.

Several recommended readings on this complex topic:

Your Consent Is Not Required (2023) by Rob Wipond provides a comprehensive well-researched view into contemporary civil psychiatric incarceration and forced interventions specifically in BC, and more broadly in Canada and the US. Here is a recent interview with Rob focused on current issues in BC.

Against Her Will is an excellent informative and hard-hitting investigative article published in the Daily Capital (March 25, 2024) by Tori Marlan that highlights the myriad impacts of one BC woman’s experiences with involuntary treatment.

Spiritual Emergence/Emergency

To learn more about spiritual emergence/y, check out this reading list of books that have been helpful to me over time or a free short course offered by Dr. Emma Bragdon: Spiritual Emergency – What Is It?

International Spiritual Emergence Network

ISEN is a collaboration of not-for-profit support networks from around the world. Each network is run by volunteers and offers information and referrals at no cost to those experiencing or affected by Spiritual Emergency.

“We recognise that a Spiritual Emergency/Spiritual Crisis is part of an ongoing, natural process of human growth and transformation towards wholeness and a greater sense of wellbeing. (…) We see spirituality as an integral part of everyday life. Spiritual emergence and spiritual emergency are holistic concepts that include physical, psychological and social dimensions.”

Spiritual Emergence Network – USA

Spiritual Emergence Service – Canada

Spiritual Crisis Network – UK

Cheetah House

Resources and support for people with challenging or adverse effects from meditation practices

Fireside Project

Free support line provides emotional support and resources by phone and text message to people in the midst of psychedelic experiences, people exploring the meaning of past psychedelic experiences, and people who are supporting others having psychedelic experiences