2025 Schedule

Shirley Weir

Founder of Menopause Chicks, author of Speak Menopause™ & creator of Script Tips™ (a new conversation tool transform-ing health appointments across Canada)

Speak Menopause™️…Like Your Future Depends On It!

Shirley wrote the book on how to Speak Menopause™—literally. In this unapologetic session, she reveals why misinterpretation (not menopause) is the real problem.

For over a decade, she’s been educating, advocating—and translating evidence-based health information for her community. Now, her Script Tips™ are transforming health appointments across Canada. Menopause is Shirley’s official love language—and she wants it to be yours too. Because when we learn to speak the language of our health so fluently, it’s impossible to be dismissed.

* Hormones & Healthspan: The Untapped Power of Bioidentical Therapy

Dr. Elisabeth Crisci
Medical Doctor & Medical Director at Pacifica MD
Location: Gymnasium

Hormonal imbalances such as low estradiol or high insulin levels are strongly associated with increased risks of cardiovascular disease, cancer, osteoporosis, dementia, metabolic syndrome and obesity. This talk reframes hormone therapy and hormone optimization as essential preventative medicine, emphasizing the importance of reducing the incidence of chronic illness, slow aging, and improve both quality and length of life. Dr. Crisci’s evidence-based approach moves the conversation far beyond simply addressing the stigmatized and superficial symptoms associated with perimenopause and menopause, such as hot flashes and genitourinary symptoms of menopause.

Mental health and Menopause: Defining, understanding, learning tools and strategies and sharing.

Carole Boivin
Registered Clinical Counsellor and Certified EMDR Therapist
Location: Lounge

This interactive workshop will address the mental health impacts of menopause and teach you tools and strategies to help you navigate them. Among other things, this workshop will cover, from an evidence-based perspective, topics such as anxiety, stress, feeling overwhelmed, sleep, libido loss, mindfulness, and adaptation.

Oops! Let’s Fix That Leak—Pelvic Floor Power in Menopause

Tanya Kessling
BMR, PT, Registered Physiotherapist
Location: Activity Room 1

Let’s talk about something no one talks about—but so many women experience: urinary leakage when you laugh, sneeze, cough or on your way to the bathroom. I’ll explore the difference between stress and urge incontinence, how hormonal changes weaken pelvic support, and most importantly—what you can do right now to stop the leaks. You’ll learn simple, effective pelvic floor techniques, bladder tips, and lifestyle tweaks that can dramatically improve your control and confidence.

* Nourishing the Transition: Nutrition Strategies for Perimenopause and Menopause

Erin Roman
Registered Dietician
Location: Gym

We feel like we know what we “should” be eating, right? Then why does nutrition seem confusing and complex?

We will explore what actually happens in our bodies when we eat and how it affects our metabolism, mood, energy, sleep and digestion especially as these are all being affected at this stage of life with our shift in hormones.

Your Body on Perimenopause: Understanding Muscles, Joints & Hormones in Midlife

Tara Findlay
Registered Massage Therapist
Location: Lounge

Did you know perimenopause can affect your muscles, joints, and even how your body moves?In this talk, Tara Findlay (co-creators of The Comprehensive Guide to Perimenopause & Menopause for RMTs) unpack the latest research on perimenopause and musculoskeletal health, explores common midlife aches and pains, and offers practical tips to help you support your body through this transition.

Overcome Burnout In Peri/Menopause: Info, Breathwork, & Meditation with Origin Integrated Health’s Adrenal Revival team

Dr. Brittney Filipetti
Chiropractor, Yoga Instructor & Adrenal-Burnout Health Planner
Location: Activity Room 1

This workshop will help you understand and navigate burnout in perimenopause and menopause. We’ll explain how the adrenals affect your hormones, and how to best support your body, mind, and soul. From the science to the holistic common sense of it all, this group gathering will explore herbs, naturopathic support , breath work, and take-home tools to help you recover and restore from a world full of stimulation. Navigate with less Resistance and explore!

* The Important Role of Exercise in Menopause

Kathi Cameron
Registered Clinical Counselor
Location: Gym

Learn how to exercise for life and why exercise is now understood as an “evidenced based” practice for the treatment of depression and anxiety.

An entertaining combination of current research, stories and humour, Kathi will walk you through how current exercise practices and beliefs may be damaging to our mental health, the neuroscience behind why exercise is an “evidence based” mental health tool, and how to chart your own course towards habitual exercise that supports lifelong resiliency (while we will have fun doing it)!

Hormone Therapy & The Timing Hypothesis: Is it too late to start hormone therapy?

Dr Alexandra Tumbach
Naturopathic Doctor
Location: Lounge

In this presentation we will review the benefits and risks of hormone therapy and the importance of monitoring specific markers of health before, during and after menopause. We will also discuss the factors involved in the decision-making process of starting hormone therapy at different ages.

Hot, Sweaty, Sleepless, Snappy? Let’s Fix That. Hypnotherapy for Real Menopause Relief

Vicki Roberts
Registered Nurse & Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist
Location: Activity Room 1

Struggling with hot flashes, night sweats, 3AM wakeups, and brain fog? As a registered nurse and clinical hypnotherapist, I’ll help you cool your body, clear your mind, and finally get deep, refreshing sleep. Join my talk and volunteer for a free demo session.