Joshua Rivedal is the creator and founder of Changing Minds: A Mental Health Based Curriculum and The i’Mpossible Project. He has a degree in organisational psychology from Southern New Hampshire University. He is trained in community counselling from the Southern California Counselling Center and the teacher’s edition of emotional intelligence at Yale University’s Center for Emotional Intelligence.
For the last 13 years, he has given several hundred keynote speeches and workshops on suicide prevention, grief, resilience, and mental health across the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. His original coursework on suicide prevention is taught in Washington State to various professions such as dentists, pharmacists, and occupational therapists. He is the author of eight books and co-author of three peer-reviewed journal papers, one of which is on the trajectory of the survivor of suicide loss. He has a certificate in food, nutrition, and health fromthe Community College of Philadelphia. As an actor, Joshua’s voice has been heard on US national commercials like Dell, McDonalds, Dunkin Donuts, and Johnnie Walker; on one of the Freckleface Strawberry Books, Cinderella Penguin, and as part of the award-winning voiceover cast of The Art of Secrets by James Klise. Joshua practices Taekwondo and achieved the rank of 1 st -degree black belt.
He is a standup comic and cook, and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States.In 2009, at the age of 25, Joshua Rivedal lost his father, age 60, to suicide. And long before he was born, in 1966, he lost his paternal grandfather to suicide. In the aftermath of his father’s death, Joshua found it difficult to grieve the loss — in part, because of family challenges, but more so because healthy grieving and an awareness of mental health hygiene had never been presented to him as ideas or options.
In 2011, Joshua nearly attempted suicide due to feelings of hopelessness, a perceived lack of resources, multiple major life changes, stagnation in the grieving process, and undiagnosed and untreated health conditions, depression and anxiety. Thankfully, Joshua got help through counselling, friends, family, and persistence. Since 2012, he has spoken 40-50 times per year about mental health and suicide prevention to various audiences, always making sure to discuss healthy change management as well as healthy grieving and mourning.
You can connect with Joshua here:
Website: https://www.iampossibleproject.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-rivedal-48a636155
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshrivedal
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/author/B00G10VFKM
Storytelling: https://www.pleaselive.org/blog/storytelling-will-save-the-world-yes-even-yours-joshua-rivedal
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