How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life: Powerful Lessons on Belongingness, Healing, and Mental Health
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Can a show like Squid Game change the world? In How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life: Powerful Lessons on Belongingness, Healing, and Mental Health, licensed marriage and family therapist, speaker, and executive coach Jeanie Y. Chang explores how the wildly popular K-Drama global phenomenon can not just entertain us, but also help us grieve from losses, heal trauma, improve our overall mental health, and navigate the complicated roadmap of life no matter what challenges we may face.
Key Themes Explored
Emotional Intelligence: Unravel the complexities of our emotions, demonstrating how K-Dramas can serve as powerful tools for understanding and applying lessons in our own lives.
Cultural Identity: Through the lens of K-Dramas, gain a deeper understanding of cultural nuances and how embracing diversity contributes to a richer sense of belonging.
Empathy and Compassion: Apply K-Dramas as a starting point for personal growth to fostering a deeper connection with others and a greater understanding of the human experience.
Inspired by Chang’s own experiences using K-Dramas to improve the mental health of herself and her clients, How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life explores the many different themes commonly found in K-Dramas and what they can teach us about ourselves. A practical resource, Chang demonstrates how to apply these lessons to change our own lives for the better.
Introducing special guest speaker...
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Jeanie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She is an accomplished international speaker, providing keynotes and offers workshops for corporations, community organizations, and colleges addressing the intersectionality of mental health and identity, DEIB and psychological safety, as well as education about topics such as burnout, resilience, mindfulness, stress, and mental health conditions including anxiety, depression, and suicidality. She serves as a subject matter expert on mental health for media outlets around the world. Jeanie is the Founder and CEO of Noona's Noonchi®, LLC, a global wellness company created out of her global social media influence as Noona’s Noonchi - a clinician, speaker, and coach who deep dives into K-Dramas from a mental health perspective. Noona’s Noonchi®, LLC provides mental health education and resources for organizations around the world. It is also a global tour operator, offering K-Culture tours including K-Drama and K-Pop sites, cultural hands-on activities, and wellness experiences. In addition, Jeanie is also an executive coach , external faculty for McKinsey & Company and a DEIB advisor for business and corporate leaders. Jeanie's book with Wiley Publishing titled, "How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life: Powerful Lessons on Belongingness, Healing, and Mental Health" was released in May 2024. Jeanie has specialized training in grief, trauma and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Her expertise includes intergenerational mental health, workplace mental health, and K-Dramas for mental health. She followed a calling in the field after a diverse career path, starting as a broadcast journalist in Washington, DC in the '90s, then attending business school. Her work in the corporate sector includes C-level business operations, marketing, public relations, and client success management. Jeanie is an active volunteer in the AAPI community. She serves as Board Chair of Asian Mental Health Collective (AMHC) and is a facilitator for the Council of Korean American's Network of Korean American Leaders (NetKAL) program. In 2019, Jeanie created the Self-Care & Wellness program for NAAAP, and founded her own non-profit organization in 2020 called, Authentic Self-Care & Wellness, Inc. which promotes mental health research. |
Jeanie Chang, LMFT, CCTP | Founder & CEO
Thursday, November 21, 2024; 5:30pm
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Location
- RSM Canada, 11 King St. W., Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5H 4C7
