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Ashley McGirt is a world renowned international speaker, author, and clinician. McGirt provides transformational talks that focus on mental health, leadership, race and social justice. While Ashley is known for leading uncomfortable conversations around racial trauma she has special programs geared towards optimizing entrepreneurial mental health along with bridging the gap among technology and mental health. Ashley’s talks bring expertise and practical tools to your event or organization in ways that are relevant to the current culture. While her common speaking topics are listed below, she’s happy to speak on, moderate, put together a panel, or develop something specific based on your needs.
TRAUMA THERAPIST • LICSW • AUTHOR • SPEAKER • FOUNDER OF WA THERAPY FUND
SIGNATURE TALKS
& KEYNOTES
RACIAL TRAUMA
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Racial Trauma 101: Understanding
the impact of racism on mental health
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​Staying Sane in a racist world
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How racism impacts our Mental Health
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Emotional Emancipation Circles
SELF CARE​
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Self care for leaders
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Self care for caregivers
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Treat yourself unapologetically
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BRAVING IT
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Myths about confidence and what you actually need to follow your dreams
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Where your fear originates, and how to not let it get in the way of your success
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How to bounce back from mistakes, failures, rejetions and heart breaks
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How to begin cultivating emotional intelligence and a healthy relationship to yourself - the foundation of courage and resilience.
​MENTAL HEALTH
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Trauma 101: Understanding trauma and it’s impact
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Mental Health and Technology
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Mental Health and Entrepreneurship (Description below)
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Mental Illness within the Black community
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Mental Health 101 ( Interventions and Resources )
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Dying While Black
MENTAL HEALTH & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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Why entrepreneurs are particularly vulnerable to mental health challenges
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Key factors in mental health and how to begin optimizing
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Personal exploration into barriers to mental health and next steps
TED TALK
THE YOUNG TURKS INTERVIEW
GROUNDBREAKING
WORKSHOPS
Unpacking Baggage (Includes a copy of the best selling book, “I tried to travel it away”
Geared to expose you to learning and understanding more about the development and impact of trauma, while providing tools to unpack the baggage associated with intergenerational traumatic stressors.
Individuals will create a trauma genome and identify which trauma theme has been prevalent in their family as well as identify ways to break free generational curses.
Breaking Free from Trauma Bonds
Designed to help participants free themselves and recover from, exploitive relationships, processes, and situations. You will learn key steps to recovering from a toxic trauma bond.
The goals of this intensive workshop is to:
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Recognize, acknowledge and develop insights about situations, people and processes that are exploitive in nature.
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Break through denial, identify signs that a betrayal bond exists, and grieve losses.
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Explore the root causes of one’s involvement in relationships, situations and processes that are destructive to them.
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Identify key elements that drive the cycle of abuse, betrayal of trust and power.
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Learn about the psychodynamic and neurobiological concepts behind exploitive situations and relationships.