Together – A Community Conference on Mental Health and Wellbeing

Charlotte Nguyễn, CMT-P leads a session called "The Body is a Portal: Somatic Movement for Rest, Resilience and Awareness".

Katherine Boeckmann and Alexandria Pan lead a workshop on suicide prevention called "Introduction to QPR".

A conference attendee gets information from a community resource table.

The "Express Yourself with Collaging" workshop led by Sheina Mai explored mindfulness and creative expression through paper collaging.

Attendees folded origami cranes enclosed with messages of hope for the Makawao Buddhist Temple in Maui, which was impacted by the recent fires. The cranes were strung and displayed at the temple's 2023 Peace Day event.

Jenna Kobara, OTD, OTR/L, SWC leads a session called "Demystifying Mental Health: Reframing Behaviors in Young Children".

The conference's opening panel discussion highlighted individuals with a variety of mental health experiences. From left to right: Linh Vo (MFT Student, Changing Tides Crew Member), Ty Tanioka (Changing Tides Crew Member), Mia Yamamoto (criminal defense attorney and civil rights activist), and John Luo, MD (Director of Psychiatric Residency Training at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Director of Emergency & Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at UCI Medical Center).