UpLift: Waterloo Region, 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

Fancy Therapy

Fancy Therapy is a team of compassionate therapists who strive to help people across Ontario. There’s no one-size-fits-all in therapy which is why we created the Therapist Matching Program. This program takes into consideration your areas of focus, availability, and budget to ensure you are matched with a therapist that suits your needs. Whether you’re in person or online, you can count on Fancy Therapy to be a safe harbour to find relief, understanding, and healing. 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. Virtual services available across Ontario, limited in-person services in Waterloo, Ontario. Learn more.

3 Chords Counselling & Psychotherapy

3 Chords Counselling and Psychotherapy provides service to those eight years of age and older. We help children, teens, couples, and families gain valuable insights, develop healthy coping mechanisms, and build stronger, more fulfilling relationships. Our large team has availability for daytime, evenings, and weekends. 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.

savageLiving Life Coaching

savageLiving Life Coaching helps individuals improve their spiritual well-being by focusing on energy and emotional blockages. savageLiving works from the framework that (e)motions are energy in motion. Clients who work with savageLiving are energetically and spiritually inclined and have a desire to release emotional energy blockages that are holding them back from being their true self. Learn more.

Will Therapy Services

Will Therapy Services is a team of dedicated and skilled therapists specialized in the treatment of all forms of trauma from ages 0+. Additionally, our team has extensive experience with child and teen mental health, attachment, depression, anxiety, parenting, grief, addictions, personality disorders, self-esteem, ADHD, autism, relationship issues, suicidality and self harm, mental health training, along with overall wellness enhancement. Learn more.

Lift up your inner awesomeness

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

Celebrate local difference-makers

As Mr. Rogers said, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” And throughout Waterloo Region, you’ll find amazing community organizations doing exactly that, stepping up to make a positive difference. Here are just a few we think deserve a Badge of Awesome.

The Food Bank of Waterloo Region

The Food Bank of Waterloo Region supports a stronger, healthier community by providing essential food assistance to individuals and families in need. Learn more.

KW Multicultural Centre

Offering all kinds of settlement services to immigrants and refugees, the KW Multicultural Centre is a vibrant hub where newcomers turn into neighbours and friends. Learn more.

The Working Centre

The Working Centre empowers individuals through innovative programs in employment and skills-building, creating pathways for everyone to thrive. Learn more.

Local hospital foundations

Across Waterloo Region, hospital foundations for Grand River, St. Mary’s General and Cambridge Memorial ensure you have access to high-quality care and medical equipment when it matters most.

Habitat For Humanity Waterloo Region

It’s hammer time! Habitat for Humanity builds and renovates affordable housing for local community members in need. Learn more.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region

By pairing children with caring adult mentors, Big Brothers Big Sisters is building a stronger, more compassionate community one relationship at a time. Learn more.