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Past Webinars


Get ACTive!

Presenters: Jessica Rickus & Kayleen Willemsen

Do you value your health, but you aren’t sure how to set concrete goals that will help you to improve it?  Are there exercises you enjoy doing, but have difficulty committing to on a regular basis? Do you set goals to become more active, but don’t know how to get started?

If so, we can help!  Join us for our Get ACTive Webinar to find out how you can use principles from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to work towards committing to an exercise plan that works for you.

If you attended this webinar, you learned:

  • The benefits of regular physical activity on your physical and emotional wellbeing
  • The Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines and Recommendations
  • Strategies to GET STARTED!
  • Common barriers to physical activity and tools to overcome them
  • How to set concrete physical activity goals towards improving your health
  • How to make physical activity part of your lifestyle

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Taking ACTion on Depressed Mood

Presenters: Jessica Rickus & Kayleen Willemsen

Are you or someone you know feeling down?

Have you or they been avoiding activities that you used to enjoy?

Do you or they feel a lack of motivation or a lack of energy to do things?

Do you or they feel caught up in a negative spiral in your/their mind?

Do you or they feel like you/they have been staying at home more often and not engaging with friends or family as much as before?

When depressed mood or feelings of depression show up for us, we tend to let go of, or lose sight of, what matters to us most.  This webinar will provide strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you take action despite those depressed feelings, rather than sitting back and allowing them to take control.


ACT in a Nutshell

Presenters: Jessica Rickus & Kayleen Willemsen

Perhaps you have heard of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and may (or may not) know a little bit about it already.  This webinar will take a shallow dive into the 6 Core Processes of ACT to help you better understand each of its components and to learn how this type of therapy can be applied to your everyday life.

The 6 Core Processes of ACT that we will explore are:

  1. Acceptance
  2. Cognitive Defusion
  3. Self as Context
  4. Being Present (Mindfulness)
  5. Values
  6. Committed Action

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ACT on your New Year’s Resolutions

Presenters: Jessica Rickus & Kayleen Willemsen

Are you finding that your New Year’s Resolutions are already slipping, or that you have avoided setting some altogether?

This webinar will help you to:

  • Create SMART goals for the New Year
  • Use mindfulness as a tool
  • Detach from your inner critic
  • Commit!

Our mission at Odyssey Health Services Inc. is to embrace the values that allow individuals to lead their lives with meaning and purpose.  Our knowledgeable team is committed to delivering evidence based services with respect, compassion and integrity to our clients.


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How to Beat the Holidaze

Presenters: Jessica Rickus & Kayleen Willemsen

Feeling stressed or overwhelmed about the upcoming holiday season? You’re not alone!

This webinar taught you:

  • How to stay mindful during the holiday season
  • How to avoid getting caught up in unrealistic expectations
  • How to connect meaning to your holiday traditions
  • How to prioritise your holiday ‘to do’s’
  • How to cultivate gratitude

Our mission at Odyssey Health Services Inc. is to embrace the values that allow individuals to lead their lives with meaning and purpose. Our knowledgeable team is committed to delivering evidence based services with respect, compassion and integrity to our clients.


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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT uses mindfulness practices to help people become aware of and develop an attitude of acceptance and compassion toward painful thoughts and feelings.


Behavioural Activation (BA)

BA is designed to treat depression. BA focuses on the depressed person’s behaviors that keep him or her stuck in depression.


Cognitive & Behavioural Therapy (CT & BT)

CT deals with thoughts and perceptions, and how these can affect feelings and behaviour. BT focuses on an individual’s learnt, or conditioned, behaviour and how this can be changed.

Quota Based Physical Conditioning

This can include graduated cardiovascular training and/or progressive resistance training to assist the individual to gradually resume their pre-disability level of functioning.


Rebuilding Social, Recreational & Family Activities

OHS guides clients through a graduated return to meaningful activity while assisting them to incorporate recommended strategies for pain management.


Work Hardening

Our work hardening process uses cognitive and physical work hardening strategies designed to utilize real or simulated work activities to restore physical, behavioural and vocational functions.


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