Dr. Mitchell Abrams

Stress and burnout have become increasingly prevalent issues that significantly impact our well-being and are predictors of disease. A 2017 survey by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, found that 44% of Canadian workers consider their workplaces to be a source of stress, burnout, and depression. In 2021, the same commission reported that over 40% of Canadians experienced increased anxiety since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 50% reporting worsened mental health. Additionally, many individuals reported feeling lonely, isolated, hopeless, and helpless. These issues affect patients, employees, and leaders alike.

While employers are implementing stress reduction tactics, such as work-from-home and wellness benefits, they often do not address the root causes of stress.

Our emotions, thoughts and actions are often dictated by ingrained patterns that are deeply rooted in our subconscious mind. However, emerging neuroscience and psychophysiology reveal that we all have the capacity to break old patterns and create new ones. This capacity to hack our subconscious mind is the next chapter in health and wellness and is key to a proactive and preventative approach to health.

As human beings, we possess an incredible capacity for growth and resilience. The latest research in health science is shedding light on the powerful impact that our heart has on our overall well-being and success.

Be empowered with knowledge of emerging research and new perspectives.

Presentation Highlights:

• The latest science on the “Heart-Brain” connection and how to access higher levels of awareness and cognition.
• The ways in which emotions and state of mind impact your mental faculties and ability to perform while exploring the latest scientific findings on resilience, peak performance, and the feeling of being in the flow of life.
• Practical skills and strategies for disrupting old patterns and creating new ones to achieve personal transformation.
• How self-care impacts the health of our organizations and communities.

We can all empower ourselves with knowledge and new perspectives that will allow us to tap into our true potential for healing and reach our optimal level of performance. No matter the label we use, be it resilience, peak performance, feeling of awe or in the flow of life, medical science is revealing the profound effects our emotions, thoughts and level of awareness have on our health and ability to perform.

Prejudices created by social media, fake news and progressively polarizing politics continue to rip the social fabric apart. How can we break this vicious downward spiral and shift the collective mindset? How do we cultivate harmonious relationships and remove preconceived biases? Dr. Mitch Abrams will discuss emerging science explaining our interconnectedness and a new narrative for a local-is-global model of thinking. Dr. Mitch Abrams will provide strategies to build healthier communities – be it your family and friends, colleagues, or the global community at large. He will introduce tangible ways that we can all play a role in stitching the social fabric together.

The Pandemic has led to compassion and burnout fatigue to be at an all-time high. The uncertainty and challenges brought upon us by the pandemic have put a wedge within ourselves with our approach to work, relationships, health, mental health and our work. Dr. Abrams shares his personal story of burnout and new insights gained from his life-threatening illness, his time as department chief, and from travelling in India while exploring new approaches to health and wellness.

Through his story, Dr. Abrams will share how we must be accountable for our thinking processes and therefore create and maintain a foundational system to manage internal and external forces of change. Through self-compassion and mindfulness, we can learn to tap into our core and consciously shift our thinking and therefore our approach to ourselves, our relationships, our work and our daily approach to living.

Ingrained thought and behavioural patterns dictate much of how we act and think. Emerging science reveals we each have the capacity to break old patterns and create new ones. This capacity to HACK our subconscious mind is the next chapter in health and wellness and is key to a proactive and preventative healthcare model. Dr. Abrams will empower audiences with knowledge of emerging research and new perspectives and will provide effective skills and strategies for personal transformation.

It has long been thought that science and spirituality are separate and distinct, and perhaps even contradictory. Emerging Western scientific research in the fields of quantum mechanics and psychophysiology is unveiling new perspectives that align with ancient wisdom. The spiritual sciences understood as the science of connection is now identified as a key tenet for health and wellness and thriving communities. Dr. Mitch Abrams will explore the intersection of science and spirituality and provide simple exercises to unlock your true inherent capacity to thrive and establish deep connections to those around you and to something greater than yourself.

Only 10% of communication is related to the words we use, the remaining 90% is non-verbal and related to your emotions and state of mind. Dr. Mitch Abrams will discuss emerging psychophysiology research and how your body communicates to others. You will learn specific methods to align your mind, emotion and heart to be a more effective communicator and receiver, be it with family, friends or colleagues.

The idea that global health is somewhere “out there” no longer applies. Between the internet and accessible air travel, we are a global community. The status quo healthcare model is outdated and lagging, no longer sufficient in today’s era; like a shoe that doesn’t fit, we have outgrown this model. Dr. Abrams will explain the emerging science of our interconnectedness. He will discuss what a local-is-global community health model looks like and how we as individuals and organizations all have a part to play in today’s new reality.