UpLift: Ottawa, Ontario

Enjoy a few laughs while revving up your resilience

No matter who you are, we all face stretches of stormy weather. UpLift is a one-of-a-kind wellness program designed to help you navigate those difficult times.

This webinar series was created by Josh Martin: a cancer survivor, author and regular guest facilitator for the Canadian Mental Health Association. In each of the modules below, you’ll find obstacle-busting advice and practical resources, drawing on lessons learned from life’s awesome and absurd moments.

A special thanks to our sponsors

Shine Mental Health Collective

Come as you are! With three convenient locations in the heart of Ottawa and Nepean, Shine Mental Health Collective promotes holistic healing, challenges stigmas, and embraces accessibility. We offer psychotherapy for individuals aged 12+ in both English and French, virtually and in person. Our experienced team offers support for a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, trauma, anxiety, depression, PTSD, burnout, and more. We look forward to connecting with you on your healing journey. Learn more.

Strength Counselling Services

Strength Counselling Services offers online-only, affordable, culturally sensitive therapy. Our licensed, experienced therapists prioritize client needs, maintain ethical standards, and provide expert guidance. We offer comprehensive goal assessments, regular progress checks, and collaboration with other professionals. Ensuring privacy, transparency, and fostering mental wellness, we help clients manage challenges, improve relationships, and achieve personal growth. Learn more.

Whole Family Psychotherapy

Whole Family Psychotherapy offers specialized individual, couples, family and group therapy for parents in the perinatal period, and their children. Whether you are trying to conceive, pregnant, postpartum or in the early and later years of parenting, our certified perinatal therapists, who are also parents themselves, have the skills to help. We believe that when parents are well supported, family systems thrive. We can help you feel whole. Learn more.

Enjoy a free wellness webinar series

Lift up your inner awesomeness. Each self-directed module below features entertaining stories from my many misadventures, advice about tackling adversity and a collection of practical resources.

Enjoy a few laughs while revving up your resilience

A special thanks to our sponsors

Shine Mental Health Collective

Strength Counselling Services

Whole Family Psychotherapy

Enjoy a free wellness webinar series

Module 1. Making your own luck: Lessons learned from a coin flip

Module 2. Improving adaptability: Lessons learned from an absurd Christmas tree

Module 3. Embracing teamwork: Lessons learned from a rogue haybale

Module 4. Leveraging tools: Lessons learned from a poorly chosen sledgehammer

Module 5. Learning humility: Lessons learned from a very brief career as a valet

Module 6. Failing forward: Lessons learned from banshee babies and buttered butts

Module 7. Avoiding shortcuts: Lessons learned from a giant backpack

Module 8. Redefining success: Lessons learned from an idiotic bet

Module 9. Letting go: Lessons learned from a gooey pit of clay

Module 10. Taking responsibility: Lessons learned from trying to catch a train

Module 11. Getting creative: Lessons learned from the toboggan hill

Module 12. Fuelling motivation: Lessons learned from sleeping in a barn

Module 13. Handing over control: Lessons learned from riding in a shopping cart

Module 14. Practising gratitude: Lessons learned from a very special list

Module 15. Prioritizing self-care: Lessons learned from a surprise birthday celebration

Module 16. Creating lasting change: Lessons learned from life’s awesome and absurd moments

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