In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

Teresa Sargent Hall
9839 - 103 Ave
Grande Prairie, Alberta, T8V 6M7
Canada

Ada Lovmo

Ada Lovmo is a multi medium artist and has been facilitating Expressive Arts and mental health programs since 2001. She is a self taught musician and a producing artist. Her independent art studies have taken her to Vancouver Island, Vancouver, Atlin B.C., Thailand, Norway, Greece, and Italy. She is a mother to three and a grandmother of four. Through her art she explores the human condition with her chalk pastel portraits and multi medium Social statement works. She has been producing community murals, as well as being involved with three of Lewis Lavoie and Phil Alain’s Mural Mosaics. Her work has been shown at various locations, including Grande Prairie, Edmonton and Vancouver.

Alan Segal

Alan Segal is a sociologist whose interest and research looks at social change and personal ideas about it. He has directed several documentary films. Two of the most recent were on cultural change and a provincial pilot health initiative to reduce the incidence of Hepatitis C. And a commemoration of the On To Ottawa Trek of 1935, in which more than a thousand unemployed men began a journey of protest to Canada’s capital, a journey that never reached its destination. Alan has also completed an audio documentary on Egypt in the final days of President Morsi’s regime.

Candace McKim

Candace McKim is a Yoga & Chakra Therapist, Spiritual Director and now Author of the book Yogini’s Guide – Intuition Is A Choice and Yogini’s Guide to Intuition Oracle Cards. Candace McKim is a Yoga /Chakra Therapist and Spiritual Director who combines the wisdom and benefits of Yoga (Asana, Pranayama, Meditation, Spirituality, Ritual and Chakra Studies) with her Social Work / counseling experience and her own life situations as a path to Optimal Health. Candace’s life work is in support of The Woman who is trying to be everything to everyone, hoping her life looks beautifully perfect. On the inside this Woman feels something is missing, she yearns for connection.  As she hears the voice of her intuition she fears stepping wholly into her purpose and femininity, afraid of ridicule, confrontation and loss of security.

Christine Ayling

Christine Ayling trained as a Virtues Project™ facilitator in 2002 and 2013 receiving her Master Facilitator designation in 2014. Embracing and integrating the tenets of this project has transformed the way she sees herself as a human being and her way of being in the world, and therefore has substantially altered the way she works with colleagues, clients and the practicum students it has been her privilege to mentor and learn with. Amongst its many brilliant components is a simply foundational perspective on understanding the critical balance between compassion and detachment that she believes is the bedrock of anyone working in human services. She is passionate about the potential this initiative holds for providing a language and context for growing those qualities that build us into purposeful, mindful, compassionate, loving, gentle, assertive, fully human, human beings, connected in powerful relationships to those around us.

Deanna Fidelak

Deanna has been educating both youth and educators for the last decade, sharing her passion for a holistic, empathetic approach to child development and learning. She is a mother, traveler, friend, educator, administrator and lifelong learner with a focused interest in empowering youth and fostering self-acceptance both in and outside the classroom.

Duff Crerar

Duff Crerar was raised in Eastern Ontario, studied at the Universities of Western Ontario and Queens, Kingston, in Canada. He is an author, writing on Canadian military and religious history, specializing in Military Chaplaincy. He retired from teaching undergraduates in History and Native Studies at Grande Prairie Regional College in May, 2013. For three years he has been moderator of interfaith discussions between aboriginal elders, Muslims and Christians of various denominations, and consults with and teaches at the Canadian Armed Forces Chaplain School and Centre for the Canadian Department of National Defence.

Eunice Friesen

Growing up, Eunice always knew she would become a registered nurse someday. When she moved to the Peace Country she attended Grande Prairie Regional College, graduating from nursing in 1988. Over the course of her 25-year nursing career, Eunice worked in the areas of pediatrics, correctional services, and occupational health and she has cared for countless individuals dealing with loss in its many forms. In 2012, she and her husband Doug, a funeral director, decided to dedicate their lives to serving families during the most devastating and final of losses: death. They established Bear Creek Funeral Home and have been assisting families together with their staff since then. Eunice is currently studying Conversations about End-of-Life Care through St. Luke’s Hospice in the UK.

Miriam Mahnic

Miriam Mahnic shares her enthusiasm, creativity and experience with those she comes in contact with as a Community Development Officer for Alberta Culture and Tourism, and as a Certified Professional Facilitator with the International Association of Facilitators. As a presenter, trainer, graphic recorder and facilitator, Miriam uses these qualities to spark people’s creativity and nurture their involvement in their communities. Miriam’s 36 years of experience has been rich and varied, and has included work with many voluntary and social profit organizations. She takes a practical approach to theory and looks for common-sense ways to help to help individuals and organizations grow their capacity and resources, and to increase their accomplishments.