Bringing Awareness and Coping Strategies to Mental Health

In honor of Mental Health Month, the Los Angeles Health Care Safety Net Committee proudly presents a day of mental wellness featuring a series of informative panels and a resource room where you can learn what mental health resources are available to you as a performer.

Start the day off celebrating the benefits of tai chi, yoga and meditation and later hear from your fellow members, therapists and mental health professionals about strategies for coping with stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns.

 

Featured Panelists:

Suzette Bray, LMFT & Executive Director of Village Counseling & Wellness

Akuoye Graham, Actor, Activist, Author, Master Yogi

Tina Hookom, L.C.S.W. Director of Social Services, Actors Fund Western Region

Dr. Helen Lavretsky, Professor of Psychiatry In-Residence and Director, Late-life mood, stress, and wellness research program at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior / Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Audrey Moore, Proud Union actress for over 10 years and the host of the popular podcast Audrey Helps Actors

Erin Raftery Ryan, Director of Operations, National Institute on Mental Illness

Chad Schwartzman, Actor and LMFT, Marriage & Family Therapist

Tucker Smallwood, Actor, Author, Musician, Activist

 

Vendors:

- The Actors Fund

- Motion Picture and Television Fund

- National Alliance of Mental Illness

- Village Counseling and Wellness

- Beacon Health Options

- Alyson Roux Nutrition

*Speakers and vendors subject to change.

 

Event Schedule:

10am – 11am Enhancing Mental Health Through Movement & Meditation – Panel discussion and demonstrations on tai chi, yoga and meditation and their role in improving mental wellness

11:15am – 12:30pm Panel Discussion on “A Performer’s Life” – Panel discussion on coping with stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health issues that affect performers

12:30pm – 1:15pm Lunch Break

1:30pm – 2:45pm Next Gen Performers Panel Discussion

Please contact special.events@sagaftra.org with questions.

This event is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing, no guests allowed. Parents/guardians of performers under 18 years old are welcome. You must bring your current membership card or digital card on the app for admittance (paid thru April 30, 2019 or Oct. 31, 2019).

The products and/or services are provided as an informational service to SAG-AFTRA members and are administered by entities independent of SAG-AFTRA. Any questions must be handled by the provider. This information is not intended to serve as an endorsement by the union nor is any warranty or guarantee implied.