Toronto
Elaine Cook has a PhD in applied behavioural psychology. As a certified solution-focused coach she works with individuals, families and organizations to facilitate conversations and implement humanistic programs that guide people toward development and personal wisdom. Currently, she works at Holland Bloorview Kid’s Rehabilitation Hospital and is responsible for the creation and implementation of a health care certification program that is transforming how carers and clients experience health care. She is mother to three children and two fur-babies, and when she isn’t mothering or working you’ll find her on the agility field with her puppies.
Conversations of Wholeness and Agency: How Change Happens
In this engaging address Dr. Cook shares stories, experience and evidence which expose the health care paradoxes of fixing and brokenness. She presents alternative perspectives and practices that enable care providers to discover, access and share their own wholeness and the wholeness of their clients and families. This shift activates agency and autonomy, which help to elicit, amplify and reinforce inherent strengths and resources present in all human being. This is how change happens.