UN75 Global Governance Forum
In connection with the world body’s 75th anniversary, the UN75 Global Governance Forum seeks to promote a more inclusive and effective United Nations through dialogue and recommendations that better harness the ideas, capabilities, and networks of both state and non-state actors for achieving the UN’s commitment to peace, sustainable development, human rights, and a stable climate.
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Overview of our roundtable participation
Lead: Tesseract Group and Epiphany Film Foundation
The initiative is designed to bring mental wellness programming and education to people worldwide with a primary focus on the world’s refugee population.
UNHCR estimates that 79.5 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide. The challenging conditions faced by those uprooted have led to intensified and long-lasting mental health and wellness disorders. This partnership’s objective is to undertake a project and associated promotional campaign that brings to the world’s refugee population proven mental wellness methodologies, psychological healing, education, and support for their personal and interpersonal resilience. Next steps include standing-up a project that deploys the values of empowered narrative therapy as its foundational basis.
Participating Organizations: Singularity University, OpenExO, a global transformation ecosystem, BrainBreaks HOPSport, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Future Life, Inc., Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Humanity Crew, ICMHD, Omega Healthcare, Pythia International, Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN), Tesseract Group, The Office of Nick Kho, Tulane University School of Medicine, Udarta Consulting, LLC, United Nations Population Fund
UN75 Global Governance Forum –
Mental Wellness for the World’s Growing Refugees, Migrants, and Disenfranchised Peoples
Project Leadership Team
Barry N. Perkins
Project Co-Founder, Co-Leader, Spokesperson, Press & Media Contact
David C. Traub
Project Co-Founder, Co-Leader, Spokesperson, Press & Media Contact
Salim Ismail
UN75 Global Governanace Forum Session Leader
Dr. Branka Agic
UN75 Global Governanace Forum Session Presenter
Jasmine Shih
UN75 Global Governance Forum Notetaker
Project Advisory Team
Dr. Manuel Carballo
Epidemiologist
Dr. Essam Daod
Psychiatrist, Mental Health Rights Advocate and Lecturer Mental Health Director & Co-Founder
Fr. Jairo Guidini
Executive Director of the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN)
Martin Guigui
President of Sunset Pictures
Dr. PL de Silva
Co-founder of the International War-related Trauma & Humanitarian Intervention Trust (IWTHI Trust)
David Hofstatter
Active impact investor, and co-founder, advisor
Andrea Jacobs
Founder, Pythia International
Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D.
Psychologist, internationally renowned speaker
Dr. Azza Karam
Secretary General of Religions for Peace
Nick Kho
Entrepreneur, Business Development Expert, Public Speaker
Bob Okun
President,
“The O Team”
Thomas Root
Founder, Brain Breaks
Dr. Shekhar Saxena
Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MSD)
