About:
The Veterans Health and Wellness Foundation is pleased to present the third conversation of our Veteran Lived Experience Series special edition in collaboration with the Alphas & ACE’s Leadership Foundation to discuss adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Our first discussion, “A Courageous Conversation” introduced a challenging and important dialogue for high achieving, high performing individuals (Alphas) regarding the internal experiences that might drive us, block us and inspire us. Our second conversation was titled, “A Collective Conversation” and drew upon the role key relationships play in the ecosystem of those who have experienced ACE’s. In our third and final discussion, “A Confusing Conversation”, we will explore the difficult reactions those who have experienced ACE’s discover when they reveal their trauma and how these relationships can be restored through radical vulnerability. Alphas & ACE’s is designed as a peer-to-peer (P2P) experience informed and supported through the clinical expertise of expertise of our subject matter experts Dr. B. Nilaja Green, PhD and moderator Dr. Evelyn Lewis Evelyn L. Lewis MD, MA, FAAFP, DABDA (VHWF).
Date and Time:
Tuesday, Nov 26th 1:00 – 2:15 PM ET
Registration:
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Guest Speakers:
Dr. B. Nilaja Green. PhD writes, speaks and engages at the intersections of individual psychological distress and collective sociocultural oppression. As an Atlanta-based Licensed Clinical & Community Psychologist, Dr. Green is an expert in trauma care and delivering specialized, culturally responsive trauma treatments to vulnerable populations such as military Veterans, Black women, and members of the LGBTQ+ community through her unique, integrative private practice, Standpoint Wellness. She has engaged in several community level initiatives, including collaborating with the mayor of East Point in Atlanta to create community-level conversations addressing issues of race, class, history and equity. Dr. Green strives to share expertise in culturally relevant, holistic mental health practice.
John Sterling is a medically retired U.S. Army Noncommissioned Officer and completed his active-duty service as a Military Intelligence professional. He also served and was certified as an Army Master Resiliency Trainer. In this role he taught critical resiliency skills for career sustainment and enhancement to hundreds of service members and their families on military installations throughout the world. In 2017, Mr. Sterling founded Azimuth Leadership LLC, a behavioral health leadership platform which focuses on providing faith-informed direction and resiliency through robust and culturally competent conversations in sports, military, recovery/mental health and clinical communities. In 2022, he made his most authentic and important leadership decision which resulted in the creation of Alphas & ACE's Leadership Foundation. The genesis of this foundation was being “awoken from broken” after he discovered and began to understand how an Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) impacted his life.
Jon Seidl has been telling stories as a writer, author, speaker, and digital media veteran for the last decade. He’s written nearly 10,000 stories after helping start a top-50 news site, then as the editor-in-chief of the popular non-profit I Am Second and culminating in his leadership as head of actor Kirk Cameron’s content website and digital course business and working with some of the biggest names in culture like Chip and Joanna Gaines, Glenn Beck, and having the privilege to interview NFL Hall of Famers and celebrities as a podcast host. He now runs his own digital media consulting and content creation firm called The Veritas Creative. Jon has seen how the power of storytelling can transform people, businesses, and culture, especially after sharing his own story of battling anxiety and OCD. His passion is to help people with mental health struggles. He’s passionate about transformative storytelling as well as erasing the stigma around mental health. He lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, Brett, and two kids, Annie and Jack. His book on anxiety, “Finding Rest,” instantly became a #1 Amazon bestseller, topping the charts in several categories like anxieties and phobias, mood disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. In fact, it shot up to become the #17 new release on all of Amazon and became a top 100 bestseller!