Gabor Mate

Topics

Presentations

When the Body Says No: The Mind/Body Connection and Stress

Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter

Scattered Minds: A New Look at ADD and Other Childhood Disorders

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Summary Profile

Avoid the cost of hidden stress in your organization.  Dr. Gabor Maté helps audiences learn how to improve their physical and emotional self-awareness, contributing to improved health, healing and productivity.  Everyone agrees we live in a highly stressed society, and Gabor provides the insights on understanding and overcoming one’s hidden stresses. 

Contrary to popular belief, external pressures and genetics have little to do with human stress and illness.  An expert on the connection between mind and body, Maté reveals that self-generated emotions have a major effect on physical health. His presentations include researched, compelling anecdotes from ordinary people to the famous, including athlete Lance Armstrong, comedian Gilda Radner, or baseball legend Lou Gehrig.

Highlights·                 

• Most recently published In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction                 
• Co-wrote Hold on to Your Kids: Parenting and the Peer Problem               
• Former Medical Coordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital, one of Canada’s largest in-hospital wards for terminally ill patients

Client Testimonials

“…how he defines stress is so different from mainstream interpretations as to be practically revolutionary…what emerges is nothing short of a revelation.”

Edmonton Journal