Speaking Events
Speaking Event Offerings
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Emma Waddington offers comprehensive workshops exploring the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, designed for clinicians, social workers, teachers, and individuals alike. Ranging from two to sixteen hours, these sessions are tailored to meet participants’ unique needs, equipping them with practical tools to enhance both their personal and professional lives.
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Emma Waddington offers eight-week Relationship and Intimacy Groups, available both online and in person. These sessions focus on building intimacy, connection, and understanding among participants, whether they are students, mental health professionals, or individuals seeking deeper relationships. Participants develop essential skills to cultivate greater closeness and strengthen their relationships.
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I can help transform your workplace culture through targeted corporate training programs. I specialize in topics such as increasing psychological safety within teams, managing burnout, fostering meaningful relationships, and navigating difficult conversations.
My aim is to assist organizations in building mental health and wellness frameworks that prioritize employee well-being and engagement.
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What About Our Boys? is a talk by Emma Waddington in collaboration with Dr Neil Osler Forrest of Osler Health, exploring the experiences and challenges boys may face as they grow and develop. Together, they offer insights into boys’ emotional wellbeing and development, and how parents and adults can better understand and support them.
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What About Our Girls? is a talk by Emma Waddington in collaboration with Dr Gina Dahel of Osler Health, exploring the experiences and challenges girls may face as they grow and develop. Together, they offer insights into girls’ emotional wellbeing and development, and how parents and adults can better understand and support them.
Talk: 'What about our boys?'
What does it mean today to be a “man”? It depends on who you ask, but stereotypes would suggest it means being stoic and unemotional, having physical strength and being a protector – a “real man” doesn’t show weakness or express feelings. Is this really the example we want to share with our growing boys? Research shows that these traditional expectations of masculinity can have harmful consequences. Men are far less likely than women to seek mental health support and far more likely to commit violent crimes. Men also have higher rates of suicide.
In this talk, Dr Neil Forrest (an Osler Health Family Physician for many teenagers) and Emma Waddington (a clinical psychologist from US Therapy) will pose the question, “What about the boys?” There has been, rightly, an intense focus on teenage girls recently, but perhaps we need to give boys some attention too. The talk will cover role models, hormonal changes, unique challenges, toxic masculinity, navigating risk, developing sexuality and teen behaviour, among other topics. Join us!