Book Shawna to speak
Life Voice President Shawna Percy is an engaging, inspiring, impactful public speaker on mental health awareness and suicide prevention topics.
She speaks from the heart and real-life experience, sharing her first-hand perspectives and deep knowledge base with audiences that include TEDxUW, other university forums and health-care anti-stigma events; via the media such as CTV News and 100 Huntley Street; and as a keynote speaker and panelist for events from fundraisers to film festivals.
Shawna is also a certified trainer delivering Mental Health First Aid, ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training,) safeTALK, and Compassion Fatigue talks in a broad range of contexts across Canada and beyond.
Book Shawna for your next keynote speaking event, interview or panel discussion
She has run hundreds of workshops, and engaged in dozens of suicide interventions; a privilege she calls “walking on sacred ground” with her fellow human beings.
Her personal experiences and storytelling approach combine theory and real-life application in an unforgettable, moving and transformative way.
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Sample Keynote Topics
Running on Empty:
Compassion Fatigue: a call to rest
Suicide IS Preventable
And other weighty statements
Trauma-informed story telling
How to share and elicit stories in a responsible way
The outback of paranoia
What psychosis taught me
The first aid gap
Using Mental Health First Aid training in Occupational Health & Safety standards
Mental Illness, Suicide, and Finding God in the Darkness
A closer look at suicide and the Bible
Lived experience:
What all the experts are reading about
Vulnerability
and other secret ingredients for a meaningful life
See Shawna in action:
Video
TEDxUW Talk:
Suicide IS preventable
Video
100 Huntley Street:
Interview with Shawna Percy and Cheryl Weber
Video
The Happiness Show: Episode 5:
How are you REALLY?
Audio (podcast)
Vibrant Happy Women Podcast – Episode 41:
Reclaiming Your Power: Talking About Pain and Grief