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Conferences

Community-engaged Research and Connections

Conferences

Community-engaged Research and Connections

ISPS-US
International Society of Psycosocial approaches to Mental Health

US Chapter Conference

ISPS-US
International Society of Psycosocial approaches to Mental Health

US Chapter Conference

eMHIC 2025

Conference - Digital Mental Health Global Conference:

S9.4 - Lived Experience, Peer Support and Carers & Child & Adolescent

46637 - Unfinished: Finding Order in Disorder

SESSION ON AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE & AUTOBIOGRPAHICAL RESEARCH- AT UVIC, B.C FOR:

MAD PASTS, MAD PRESENCE CONFERENCE, 2026

SESSION ON AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE & AUTOBIOGRPAHICAL RESEARCH- AT UVIC, B.C FOR:

MAD PASTS, MAD PRESENCE CONFERENCE, 2026

CMHO 2024

Conference- Children's Mental Health Ontario:

CMHO 2024: “Like Mother, Like Daughter: Navigating Mental Health Through Connection and Empathy”

CMHO

Conference- Children's Mental Health Ontario:

“Culturally Relevant Pedagogies: Therapeutic Sound and Movement for Early Years and School-Agers”- -North Indian Classical Dance form of ‘Kathak’.

CEC- Council of Exceptional Children Conference Ontario, Canada - 2026

“Culturally Relevant Pedagogies: Therapeutic Sound and Movement for Early Years and School-Agers”- -North Indian Classical Dance form of ‘Kathak’ and Drums from Ghana- ft. Afia Kyei

MAD PASTS, MAD PRESENCE CONFERENCE, UVic, B.C

With Prof. Dr. Bren LeFrançois - Founder of ‘Sanism’
With Prof. Dr. Megan Davies- Madness Canada
With Matt Bodett- Director, Mad Culture, Chicago & Host of Mad Tea Podcast
With Dr. Kira A. Smith- Scholar, Madness Canada Board Member
With Jodi and her partner
With Tara I तारा - meaning ‘Star’ in Sanskrit- A Menonite & South Asian Artist
With Prof. Dr. Bren LeFrançois - Founder of ‘Sanism’
With Prof. Dr. Megan Davies- Madness Canada
With Matt Bodett- Director, Mad Culture, Chicago & Host of Mad Tea Podcast
With Dr. Kira A. Smith- Scholar, Madness Canada Board Member
With Jodi and her partner
With Tara I तारा - meaning ‘Star’ in Sanskrit- A Menonite & South Asian Artist
With Prof. Dr. Bren LeFrançois - Founder of ‘Sanism’
With Prof. Dr. Megan Davies- Madness Canada
With Matt Bodett- Director, Mad Culture, Chicago & Host of Mad Tea Podcast
With Dr. Kira A. Smith- Scholar, Madness Canada Board Member
With Jodi and her partner
With Tara I तारा - meaning ‘Star’ in Sanskrit- A Menonite & South Asian Artist
With Prof. Dr. Bren LeFrançois - Founder of ‘Sanism’
With Prof. Dr. Megan Davies- Madness Canada
With Matt Bodett- Director, Mad Culture, Chicago & Host of Mad Tea Podcast
With Dr. Kira A. Smith- Scholar, Madness Canada Board Member
With Jodi and her partner
With Tara I तारा - meaning ‘Star’ in Sanskrit- A Menonite & South Asian Artist

With Prof. Dr. Bren LeFrançois - Founder of ‘Sanism’
With Prof. Dr. Megan Davies- Madness Canada
With Matt Bodett- Director, Mad Culture, Chicago & Host of Mad Tea Podcast
With Dr. Kira A. Smith- Scholar, Madness Canada Board Member
With Jodi and her partner
With Tara I तारा - meaning ‘Star’ in Sanskrit- A Menonite & South Asian Artist
With Prof. Dr. Bren LeFrançois - Founder of ‘Sanism’
With Prof. Dr. Megan Davies- Madness Canada
With Matt Bodett- Director, Mad Culture, Chicago & Host of Mad Tea Podcast
With Dr. Kira A. Smith- Scholar, Madness Canada Board Member
With Jodi and her partner
With Tara I तारा - meaning ‘Star’ in Sanskrit- A Menonite & South Asian Artist
With Prof. Dr. Bren LeFrançois - Founder of ‘Sanism’
With Prof. Dr. Megan Davies- Madness Canada
With Matt Bodett- Director, Mad Culture, Chicago & Host of Mad Tea Podcast
With Dr. Kira A. Smith- Scholar, Madness Canada Board Member
With Jodi and her partner
With Tara I तारा - meaning ‘Star’ in Sanskrit- A Menonite & South Asian Artist
With Prof. Dr. Bren LeFrançois - Founder of ‘Sanism’
With Prof. Dr. Megan Davies- Madness Canada
With Matt Bodett- Director, Mad Culture, Chicago & Host of Mad Tea Podcast
With Dr. Kira A. Smith- Scholar, Madness Canada Board Member
With Jodi and her partner
With Tara I तारा - meaning ‘Star’ in Sanskrit- A Menonite & South Asian Artist

MAD PASTS, MAD PRESENCE CONFERENCE, UVic, B.C

With Prof. Dr. Bren LeFrançois - Founder of ‘Sanism’
With Prof. Dr. Megan Davies- Madness Canada
With Matt Bodett- Director, Mad Culture, Chicago & Host of Mad Tea Podcast
With Dr. Kira A. Smith- Scholar, Madness Canada Board Member
With Jodi and her partner
With Tara I तारा - meaning ‘Star’ in Sanskrit- A Menonite & South Asian Artist
With Prof. Dr. Bren LeFrançois - Founder of ‘Sanism’
With Prof. Dr. Megan Davies- Madness Canada
With Matt Bodett- Director, Mad Culture, Chicago & Host of Mad Tea Podcast
With Dr. Kira A. Smith- Scholar, Madness Canada Board Member
With Jodi and her partner
With Tara I तारा - meaning ‘Star’ in Sanskrit- A Menonite & South Asian Artist
With Prof. Dr. Bren LeFrançois - Founder of ‘Sanism’
With Prof. Dr. Megan Davies- Madness Canada
With Matt Bodett- Director, Mad Culture, Chicago & Host of Mad Tea Podcast
With Dr. Kira A. Smith- Scholar, Madness Canada Board Member
With Jodi and her partner
With Tara I तारा - meaning ‘Star’ in Sanskrit- A Menonite & South Asian Artist
With Prof. Dr. Bren LeFrançois - Founder of ‘Sanism’
With Prof. Dr. Megan Davies- Madness Canada
With Matt Bodett- Director, Mad Culture, Chicago & Host of Mad Tea Podcast
With Dr. Kira A. Smith- Scholar, Madness Canada Board Member
With Jodi and her partner
With Tara I तारा - meaning ‘Star’ in Sanskrit- A Menonite & South Asian Artist

York University
MAD Studies Hub Film Screening + Panel Ft

Dr. Geoffrey Reaume, Critical Disability Studies, York University | Tereza Barta, Associate Professor, Cinema & Media Arts, York University | Dr. Jan DeFehr, Faculty of Education, University of Winnipeg

Mad Pasts, Mad Presence, UVic, B.C

Our founder photographed here with Dr. Bren A. LeFrançois, a University Research Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Their research and scholarship focus on the psychiatrization of children, mad community praxes, the ethics of care including anti-sanist and anti-racist care work within research as well as anarchist/abolitionist prefigurative politics.

Finding Order in Disorder In-person Virtual Webinar

World Bipolar Day 2026 International Conference - organized by Amaha, Bipolar India, and Mental Health Support Foundation - Founder - Mr. Vijay Nallawalla - who is also FOID's board member.