Previously recorded
Upedia webinars

1-Love your work; lose the burnout

Happy Child Life Month! How do you continue to do work you LOVE, without feeling overwhelmed, dysregulated, pre-irritated and stretched thin? Burnout in North America is at record levels: 66% of U.S. employees and 39% of Canadian workers experienced burnout in 2025 - we can’t do our best work this way. In this webinar, Trish introduces simple, quick, and science-backed tools to build resilience and reduce stress — without quitting your job, adding 30 minutes to your busy day, or retreating to a mountain cave. You’ll explore your relationship with stress, challenge the success-at-all-costs mindset, and learn low-maintenance mindfulness strategies to use even in the middle of a busy shift or high-stakes meeting. This session is ideal for high-stress, service-driven teams — educators, healthcare workers, nonprofit professionals, and anyone who’s great at helping others but struggles to help themselves. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Discover how to turn down the volume on mental stress so you can feel calm and present even in moments of chaos and stress. Develop response strategies to emotionally charged situations instead of reacting out of stress. Get practical strategies to develop sustainable mental and emotional capacity. Leave feeling empowered to take control of your stress response so you can reduce burnout.

Supporting children and youth who are grieving a death

The death of a significant person represents one of the most powerful disruptions in all aspects of a child or youth’s emotional existence. Yet few people, including professionals in the field of mental health, medicine, or education, receive formal training on how to support children and youth who are grieving a death.  In this webinar Ms. Warnick will identify: • Common barriers to supporting children and youth who are grieving • Innovative and practical strategies that can be used in a variety of settings to help children and youth integrate the reality of the death into their lives in a healthy way • Important messages from children, youth, and their families that illustrate “best practice” guidelines for supporting the wellbeing of children who are grieving

Outside the Pediatric Walls; Extending child life services to include the children of adult patients

This webinar will focus on ways Child Life Specialists have extended the scope of Child Life Practice by including children of adult patients. Our panelists will highlight their roles and interventions they have used in community settings, adult hospitals and pediatric institution. There will also be some limited time available to ask our panelists questions

Thriving Personally and Professionally; Life Review

We are almost 1/4 through the year, where are you with your goals and intentions for the year?  To succeed professionally it is equally important to reflect and evaluate how on track we are with our personal  resolutions and intentions. Because the reality is, when we thrive personally, we thrive professionally. SO on March 1st, professional life coach, Fabienne Gordon, will guide us through an intentional exercise to formally reflect on the first couple of months of and identify where (if at all) you are in need of re-alignment to stay on track with your intentions this year. Learn strategies for yourself that you can also use with those you work with.  Fabienne (Fab) Gordon is a seasoned strategist and ICF certified life coach that is on a mission to make life coaching accessible, relatable, and tangible. With that mission in mind, she started her coaching practice @dolifework. For over three years now, Fabienne has brought the power of life coaching to silicon valley startups and multinationals across Canada. Her unique approach has proven to help reduce uncertainty, induce a feeling of control and help individuals/teams get crystal clear on what they *actually* want, need & desire in both their personal and professional life. Fab applied the Lifework model to her career & everyday life and she can't wait to share it with you.

Supporting Siblings After Pregnancy and Infant Loss

The end of a pregnancy or death of a baby is a very sad and difficult time for adults that can be made more sad and difficult when they are responsible for supporting children in their own grief. Families may have many questions about how to talk about pregnancy and infant loss with their children, including the worries about doing more harm to children when talking about death or openly showing adult grief. This presentation will be provided by Pregnancy and Infant Loss (PAIL) Network and will include an impactful panel of experienced parents who have, and continue to, support the grief of their living children.

Understanding and Supporting the Complexity of Grief in our COVID-shaped World

Never Enough Time; Grief and relationships before, and after a death

Grief is a natural human reaction to loss and although it is often associated with bereavement, grief is also felt deeply across the trajectory of illness, whether it is likely curable or fatal. Rather than distinguishing between “anticipatory grief” and grief following a death, in this presentation grief will be conceptualized as an evolving personal and relational experience which is both unique for each individual, yet shares many common threads across the continuum of experiences. This presentation will draw on clinical research with children with brain tumours and their parents, as well as siblings of children in palliative care, and clinical work with children grieving the death of a sibling or parent. These children’s and families’ stories will highlight their strengths, needs and opportunities for us to support their relationships before, during and after a death.

“Diagnosing” Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts_ Seeing The Positive in Young People Even When There are Serious Problems

This presentation will explore ways we can intervene to help children cope by changing the social and physical environment that surrounds them.

Covid Creativity & Pandemic Playtimes: Coordinating virtual Child Life sessions within a community based-Child Life practice

This webinar explores the real-life adaptions and successful adjustments made during the pandemic lockdown within a community-based child life practice, from in-person to virtual sessions.