Sunday, December 4, 2022
9 am-9 pm EST

Drop in and out of the day as your interest and capacity permits, and build your own IDHA adventure!

This one-of-a-kind, all-day event will feature a full day of creative and community-oriented programming – interspersed with plenty of breaks for somatic grounding, food, dancing, and rest. Everyone is invited as we come together to celebrate the IDHA community and sustain our collective vision.

Our theme for this year's festival is "Healing as Homecoming," in the spirit of returning to our roots and honoring intergenerational healing wisdom. 

We uplift nonlinear time, considering the ways in which the care practices and strategies we are cultivating today are deeply informed by our lineages.
 

This unique event will include:

A keynote speech by Dr. Jennifer Mullan
A virtual screening of the film Drunk on Too Much Life
A panel discussion with Dr. Gabor Maté
Healing and arts workshops
Live member performances
...and much more!

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All funds we raise will go directly to strengthening communities of practice rooted in rights-based, peer-centered, and holistic mental health.
 

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This schedule is being updated on an ongoing basis as workshops and other festival programs are confirmed

Section 1: Getting Rooted

• 9:00-9:30 am EST: Opening Somatic Practice
• 9:30-10:30 am EST: Workshop: Ancestors in Training
• 10:45-12:00 pm EST: Panel: Movement Lineages

Section 2: Entering the Portal

• 12:00-1:30 pm EST: Film Screening: Drunk on Too Much Life 
• 2:00-3:00 pm EST: Workshop Rewriting Our Mental Health Stories
• 3:30-5:00 EST: Panel: Healing the Whole Person: A Conversation on Drunk on Too Much Life and The Myth of Normal
• 5:00-6:00 pm EST: Community Dinner Break

Section 3: Homecoming

• 6:00-6:30: Interim Somatic Practice
• 6:30-7:00: IDHA Team Speeches and Dance Break
• 7:00-7:45 pm EST: Keynote Speech: Dr. Jennifer Mullan of Decolonizing Therapy
• 8:00-8:30 pm EST: Winner Reveals: Art Contest & Raffle
• 8:45-9:00 pm EST: Closing Remarks

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This list will be updated on an ongoing basis as speakers are confirmed

Keynote Speaker
 

Affectionately nicknamed “the Rage Doctor” by peers and clients, Dr. Jennifer Mullan (she/her) is trained as a Clinical Psychologist, Ancestral Rage & Grief Guide, and a published author. As CEO and founder of Decolonizing Therapy, LLC, Dr. Mullan seeks to shift the paradigm and narrative of mental health, helping to reconnect practitioners and clients to the roots of our wounding and depth of our healing within a sociopolitical lens. Dr. Mullan helps people return Home to themselves, their lineages, their Peoples indigenous ways of healing, and lights the fire towards collective action. She believes it’s essential for all professionals to question the relate-ability of their practices to “everyday people”and ultimately, to reassess “whom they are serving?” To further advance this “root work”- Dr. Mullan founded Decolonizing Therapy, LLC in 2018, and since, has built a significant social media platform, including 162,000 Instagram supporters, and growing often shouting: “Everything is Political!” She has been featured in Allure, GQ, The Today Show, The Calgary Journal, and was selected by ESSENCE Magazine to receive the 2020 Essential Hero Award, in the category of Mental Health.

Speakers
 

A celebrated speaker and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics, such as addiction, stress and childhood development. Dr Maté has written several bestselling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, When the Body Says No, Scattered Minds and (as co-author) Hold On to Your Kids. His works have been published internationally in more than thirty languages. The documentary about Gabor's life and work, The Wisdom of Trauma (2021), has been viewed over 7 million times and has been translated into 28 languages. It is considered one of the most successful self-distributed documentaries ever.
 

Dr. Mariel Buqué is a Columbia University-trained Psychologist, intergenerational trauma expert, and the author of the upcoming book Break the Cycle: a healing guide for generational trauma. She provides courses for healing trauma and building healthy relationships and provides corporate wellness consultations to Fortune 100 companies including Google, Twitter, Capital One, and Facebook. She shares mental health tips with an online community of over 700K community members and has been featured on major media outlets including The Today Show, CNN, The Real, and ABC News. You may find her work at www.drmarielbuque.com and on social media at @dr.marielbuque.

Elmina Bell (she/they) hails from Indigenous African parents from the Indigenous Bantu Sawa/Subu peoples of coastal, southwest Cameroon in Central Africa, and the Ewe peoples of Togo West Africa and was born and raised in the United States. Elmina is multiply neurodivergent/neuroexpansive person who centers Indigenous holistic psychologies and cosmologies for improved mental health, community building, and for the dismantling of oppressive colonial capitalistic societal systems that are at the root of health and housing disparities. Their work as a trained trauma-informed peer support facilitator, crisis counselor, tropical and sidereal astrologer, sound healer, and medium, is guided by Mulema Alchemy. Mulema means heart in the  Indigenous Sawa languages of her parents and she believes in the transformative, alchemical power of the heart.
 

Michelle Melles (she/her) is a Canadian-American filmmaker, producer, story editor, and writer based in Toronto. A fierce believer that the personal is in dialogue with the political and that multidimensional storytelling has the power to transform our world, Michelle Melles has been creating social issues documentaries for over twenty years.
 

Corrina Orrego (she/her) is a poet, artist, musician, peer support and personal support worker, with a background in psychology.  She is a kind, empathetic, and outgoing person who loves to help others and is a huge animal lover.  She has many years of peer support experience and works as both a peer support and personal support worker. She continues compassionate care and social activism wherever she can.

Veronica Agard (Ifáṣadùn Fásanmí) (she/her) is a writer, abọ̀rìṣà, community educator, and connector at the intersections of Black identity, wellness, representation, and culture. She curated the Who Heals the Healer series and the conference of the same name and facilitates the Ancestors in Training educational project. Her words have homes at For Harriet, Black Girl Magik, Life as Ceremony, Black + Well, Redefining Our, and Heritage Journal (among others). Through Ancestors in Training, she is a recipient of a Spring 2022 Reclamation Ventures Grant award for Healing Practices for Grief. Ṣadùn also serves as a member of the Speakers Series with End Rape on Campus, as well as member of the Board at IDHA NYC. With every opportunity, she names the power of storytelling and being believed in. Described as living in the future - Veronica is guided by the past and carries out her dreams in the present. www.veronicaagard.com/links 
 

Performers

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Drunk on Too Much Life is an intimate and powerful documentary following the filmmaker's 21-year-old daughter’s mind-opening journey from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels towards expansive worlds of creativity, connection and greater meaning. On their journey, the family begins to question the widespread idea that mental illness should be understood in purely biological terms. They learn the myriad ways that madness has meaning that goes far beyond brain chemistry.

IDHA will screen the film virtually during our festival, demonstrating what transformative mental health can look like in practice. A virtual panel event will bring together a group of people with lived experience, family members, clinicians, and artists to decenter biomedical understandings of mental health and share expansive visions of creativity, connection, community, and consciousness in mental health.

We are re-launching our annual art contest to identify a unique design celebrating IDHA!

We invite you to send us your art and designs embodying our festival theme of "healing as homecoming," or transformative mental health more broadly. This image will be featured on a limited edition 2022 IDHA tote bag, included in all ticket purchases starting at the "Community Sponsor" tier.

What kind of image are we looking for? Stylized words? Illustration-only? Something unexpected? You decide!

To enter: Please send your submission to contact@idha-nyc.org with the subject “IDHA 2022 Tote Bag Art Contest” by November 15.

All submissions will all be posted on IDHA’s website, culminating in a community vote at the end of November to determine a winner. No matter the final selection, all submissions will remain on the website, including contact information so folks browsing through can learn more about the incredible artists in our community. Check out the submissions from last year's contest, and the three winning designs featured on our 2021 limited edition IDHA t-shirt.