Theme: A Shift In Thinking

Surrey first TEDx event at Surrey Centre Stage City Hall.

Sometimes it starts as a quiet rumble. Sometimes, it’s as powerful as a lightning strike. Other times, it’s the voice of someone telling you their story, inspiring you with their words to discover, change, and grow. At TEDxBearCreekPark, the first TEDx event in Surrey, thirteen voices from the community are coming together, unified by the power of a Shift in Thinking, to inspire and support the growth of ideas in Surrey.

Centre Stage at City Hall
13450 104 Avenue
Surrey, British Columbia, V3T 1V8
Canada

Candace Plattor

Candace is an Addiction Therapist and International Award-Winning Author who, for the past 28 years, has been working with families whose lives have been torn apart by addiction. Candace knows how families can get stuck in the Toxic Triangle of Fear, Enabling, and Addiction. She understands the life-and-death difference between Helping and Hurting, Loving and Enabling, Addiction and Recovery. She teaches families how to Love with Boundaries through her signature addiction prevention program - the No Option Plan for Enabling - N.O.P.E.

Carmelle Kemp

Carmelle Kemp is a Spiritual Teacher and Medicine Woman, but it wasn’t always this way. Her childhood was spent navigating physical, sexual, and emotional abuse that left her wandering a dysfunctional wasteland. Seeking the healing she desperately needed, Carmelle found herself travelling the globe studying and training with Shamans in the Amazon and Gurus in India. She is passionate about liberating the human spirit by helping men and women from all walks of life shift from overwhelmed and unfulfilled to fearless and free.

Cindy Sheldan

Cindy Sheldan is passionate about two things; graphic design and food. Cindy is the creative director, and a principal at the Vancouver design firm SWCA. Cindy suspects that most people are largely unaware of how design shapes their everyday choices. She’ll explain how food and beverage companies seduce you in the grocery aisles and spark a shift in thinking around consumer choice. And finally - Cindy will crack the mystery of why wine tastes better at the winery.

Dr. Rick Bradshaw

Always an innovator, Dr. Rick Bradshaw was Director of a $1.3 million Interactive Multimedia Project at Simon Fraser University. He is a Psychologist with over 30 years of experience, who has taught graduate level courses at three post-secondary institutions in BC. For the past 25 years, he has been co-developing Observed & Experiential Integration OEI), a new trauma therapy. OEI harnesses amazing eye-and-brain connections for healing, as he explains in his TEDx Talk.

Hebah Hussaina

Hebah is an explorer in her community. She is a third-year student at UBC in the Faculty of Science, focussing her Integrated Sciences degree to help children with neurodevelopmental conditions. As an individual with a firm passion for giving back, she volunteers for various community initiatives, such as the City of Surrey, Surrey Memorial Hospital, and UBC programs. Also, she works with BC Children’s Hospital and TELUS Science World to support youth and children. Hebah is passionate about working with youth, and believes they truly are the key to the future.

Janet Law

Janet was given a serious cancer diagnosis and was saved by medicine derived from the YEW TREE. She is planting seeds that will help keep Mother Nature’s Medicine Cabinet full. She is grounded and rooted in the transforming power of our forests so we can keep ourselves alive. She currently works in the Health Care Field and is passionate about the healing and creative arts. She enjoys life fully and continues to have fun as a curious adventurer.

Karen Klein Galbraith

Caring deeply for the well-being of others, Karen has devoted her life to making the world a safer and gentler place. As an award-winning road safety practitioner, pet therapy hospice volunteer, and life coach she’s accomplished that and more. Karen will share her hospice stories of humor and heart and unlock the power of meaningful connections by showing us how to own our discomfort with death – to simply “be” with those who need us most during their final days.

Klaus Oehr

Klaus Oehr is a successful research scientist/inventor/entrepreneur, with multiple commercialized inventions. He has spent the last four years studying the photo-bio-electrochemistry of cognitive decline including Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Klaus is fascinated with a group of senior Okinawans in the Village of Ogimi, who have more than six times lower incidence of cognitive decline than most non-Okinawans. New scientific data shows how they’ve done it. What’s more, it’s easy to adapt a senior Okinawan lifestyle to our own to prevent dementia, as Klaus reveals in his TEDx talk.

Nikki van Schyndel

Nikki has always done what scares her the most and this has led her on unbelievable adventures in the wild. With 20 years of training and study, Nikki is one of North America’s top wilderness survivalists. She chronicles her story of dream home to lean-to, diamonds to bear claws, in her bestselling memoir, “Becoming Wild”. She balances the wisdom of the old ways with the best of our new technology in an off-grid, log cabin she built from a how-to book, dreaming of becoming a member of the Explorers Club.

Roy Campbell

Roy Campbell is a Youth Worker with the Delta School District and has a deep passion for helping at-risk youth. He is a powerful, motivational speaker who relates to everyone and was nominated for the “Courage to Come Back Award”. His challenging and memorable life experiences have enhanced his determination to empower youth and shift their thinking—something that he himself has experienced. Roy suffered a broken neck injury as a young, professional rugby player and through “A Shift in Thinking” managed to overcome his situation and become an ultraendurance athlete.

Sally Claire

Sally is a business person, entrepreneur and a community volunteer in pet therapy. An academic thinker and a curious researcher, she holds a master’s degree in social science; organizational leadership. Her work in the food and consumer packaged goods sector earned her a nomination for the Eric Douglas Entrepreneur award for social innovation and has seen her complete her sixth pastry school class in Paris, France. Sally impacts organizations and individuals with her courageous, hope-filled and informative message on “The S Word”.

Vindy Teja

Vindy is a Divorce Coach. When she first started law school, she had no idea she’d land here. After her Call to the Bar, she served as Director of Career Development at the UWO Faculty of Law. She pursued Personal and Divorce Coaching after indulging a side passion in Fitness Coaching. Her diverse background and experience of parenting and divorce have equipped her with a wide lens with which to assist her clients. She offers an empowering tool to married couples as well as those entering marriage or co-habitation.

Wayne Phimister

Wayne is a family physician, clinical assistant professor at UBC, and author who is dedicated to finding solutions for people suffering in chronic pain. He quit his regular practice after 17 years to provide services that offer scientifically proven effective treatment methods. All patients in chronic pain deserve to know why pain exists, and how they can be empowered on the journey of healing. In his TEDx talk, he shares how to retrain the brain to reduce pain.