What a powerful and inspiring evening! ❤️🤝
Our first ‘Fireside Chat’ during the Sundance Film Festival - “Mental Health and Making an Impact” - was an honest, emotional, and highly inspirational discussion on mental health.
🙌🏻 Special thanks to our panelists
@zacharylevi , Christena Huntsman Durham ,
@rep.eliason , Dave & Jil Hunter. We can’t express our gratitude enough to them for braving the cold weather and Sundance traffic to donate their time and amazing passion and energy.
🤗 The panelists spoke to a standing room only crowd about their own mental health journeys and the impactful initiatives that they are each involved in to make a positive change for mental health.
Highlights included:
✴️ the innovative Crisis Care Center established by the
@uofuhmhi and
@huntsmanmentalhealth (Christena Huntsman Durham)
✴️ free therapy now being provided by the nonprofit Nerd HQ (Zachary Levi)
✴️ the trailblazing SafeUT app and how it’s the model for other states (Steve Eliason)
✴️ the exciting upcoming children tv show promoting mental health and emotions (Dave & Jil Hunter)
🙏🏻 Special thanks go to Lisa Precious and Daphne Briggs with Music Lodge for providing the space, the logistics, and the generosity to make this happen.
🙏🏻 Special thanks also to
@davidosmond ,
@landonsinstaworld ,
@jarednstewart , Paul Tew, and one of our advisory members
@finneganshawn for helping invite so many meaningful and intentional guests to attend the event.
The post-panel informal conversations were just as equally inspiring and ripe with possibilities for making future impact, including with:
Danielle Brinker ,
@jamesbelyeu ,
@johnnysloanx ,
@danbfarr ,
@dyejo ,
@bret_engemann ,
@rbrookesmith , Kenneth Chang , Austin Wilson ,
@mcleanentertain ,
@farrisgerard , and many others.
Thanks to all who attended and made this such a wonderful inaugural event!
💙 Our mission at Nerd HQ is straightforward and simple - to provide free therapy to those who can’t afford it. We’re currently funding services and therapy for nearly 600 people.
Please contact
@ericartell if you’d like to join us in making a tangible impact on mental health.
#mentalhealth #nerdhq #therapy
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