Shows
Life Outside the BoxLife Outside the Box Live: Managing Future AnxietyRecorded live in Toronto on May 30th 2023, this panel discussion brought together a diverse group of young people to reflect on managing anxiety about the future. Featuring co-hosts Asante Haughton and Abbigail Kernya, with special guests Arissa Roy, Matthew Dawkins, Tosan Tosanwumi and Dance SusiloSupport the show Follow us on Instagram @the44north_ or head to our website at https://www.the44north.ca/podcast-life-outside-the-box Follow us on Facebook @the44north Email us at editors@the44north.ca Thanks for listening! And let's keep the conversation going on Youth Mental Health.
2023-06-131h 06
Stronger Together ExperienceStronger Together with Asante HaughtonAsante Haughton
@asantetalks
2x TEDx | CAMH 150 Difference Maker | Activist | Speaker | Host | Change-Maker | Dream Chaser | Visionary | IG: @asantetalks | Email: asante.talks@gmail.com
2023-03-1820 min
The Lighthouse Beacon PodcastEpisode #12: Children, Youth, and Teens’ Grief Through the Lens of PovertyThe marginalization experienced by children living in poverty is immeasurable. Coupled with a death related loss, this double vulnerability often leads to a loss of hope, and coping mechanisms that further alienates and isolates such children.
In this episode we are joined by the inimitable Asante Haughton as he shares his life story out of poverty and discrimination. His deep wisdom reflects on the power of love, presence, and truly listening to children, youth, and teens growing up in poverty while experiencing grief due to a death related loss.
Join us for a deeply reflective an...
2022-06-2452 min
MindVine Podcast#MindVine Podcast Episode 94 - Asante Haughton, Mental Health Advocate and SpeakerIt's Black History Month and Episode 94 of the #MindVine Podcast is proud to feature speaker and advocate Asante Haughton (@asantetalks) talking #mentalillness as well as issues impacting #mentalhealth in black communities. The #MindVine podcast is hosted by Darryl Mathers (@DarrylMathers). The podcast is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
2022-02-1545 min
At The 55The Talk Season 2 With Asante HaughtonAsante Haughton is the Peer Development and Training Manager at Stella's Place, and he joins us today for The Talk.
The Talk Season 2 is in partnership with Stella's Place to raise funds for their Virtual Counselling sessions. Our target goal is $5,500 at which point Dakota and Zac will do a polar bear dip in early March.
https://stellasplace.akaraisin.com/ui/PolarDip --> link for donation page.
2022-01-2644 min
Life Outside the BoxSeize the Pandemic Day!In our first episode, co-hosts Asante Haughton and Abby Kernya have a conversation with Western University student Helena Nikitopoulos about student mental health during the pandemic, coping with the anxiety of being back at school, and what really matters in life. Support the show Follow us on Instagram @the44north_ or head to our website at https://www.the44north.ca/podcast-life-outside-the-box Follow us on Facebook @the44north Email us at editors@the44north.ca Thanks for listening! And let's keep the conversation going on Youth Mental Health.
2021-11-0924 min
Read Into ThisS2E7 Read Into Audiobooks/Podcasts- Adrian Del Monte (Part 1)Co-host Beth Lyons and Adrian Del Monte from The Wholehearted Teaching podcast sit down to discuss how educators are embracing audiobooks and podcasts as texts in their classroom, especially since the start of the pandemic. As parents of young children Beth and Adrian reflect on the current remote learning situation and how it has impacted their understanding of the education system as educators in the areas of assessment and demonstration of learning. How might we embrace audiobooks in our classrooms and school libraries to allow students greater access to stories? What constitutes “real” reading in classrooms and is this an outd...
2021-04-2956 min
SickboyRoutine Checkup: Reach Out Response Network w/ Asante HaughtonAsante Haughton is a mental health advocate who looks at the challenges surrounding mental illness through a lens of race. Born in Toronto, Asante draws from his own life experience as a Black man living with mental illness and the system (or lack thereof) to support him. Asante is the co-founder of Reach Out Response Network, a non-police mental health emergency service, led by clinicians and peer workers from the communities they serve. The pilot is set to begin in Toronto.
2021-03-101h 00
Unleash Your Voice with Priya SamAsante Haughton on being a young father and breaking down mental health stigmaIn this episode we hear from mental health advocate and one of CAMH’s 150 difference makers, Asante Haughton. Asante speaks for the first time about the stigma he faced from friends and family when he became a father at a young age. We discuss the impact that had on his mental health and the challenges he faced in his relationships. Asante also shares how he overcame those obstacles, finished his degree and eventually started sharing his story publicly with audiences around the world. He has done two TED Talks and co-founded the Reach Out Response Network, an or...
2021-03-031h 06
Wholehearted Teaching with Adrian Del MonteDear White Teachers: No One Said it Would Easy with Asante HaughtonToday's episode is all about how hard it is to build anti-racist classroom. It's not just hard for our racialized students, but it's also hard for white teachers (myself included) doing the hard work of examining whatever biases we hold.But we have to do it. In this episode, Asante Haughton tells us his own story of becoming a father, a mental health advocate, a 2XTed Talk speaker and an inspirational human being. Yet, as a poor, black man he had to endure more than many of us ever will. He was not always able to...
2021-03-0248 min
Wholehearted Teaching with Adrian Del MonteDear White Teachers: No One Said it Would Easy with Asante HaughtonToday's episode is all about how hard it is to build anti-racist classroom. It's not just hard for our racialized students, but it's also hard for white teachers (myself included) doing the hard work of examining whatever biases we hold.But we have to...
2021-03-0248 min
Context Beyond The HeadlinesIt’s ok not to be okSadness and fear is gripping all of us during this global pandemic and time of social unrest. There are no easy answers – but there is a healer – we only need to reach out and hear God’s voice amid all the chaos.
GUESTS:
Asante Haughton, Mental Health Advocate
Andrea Warnick, Grief Psychotherapist
Dr. Andrew Blackwood, Healing Communication Facilitator and Consultant
Founder of The Healing Communication Centre
Jermaine Morrison RSW, BSW, Mental Health Advocate
2021-01-2728 min
Appointed: A Canadian Senator Bringing Margins to the CentreMore effective ways to respond to mental health crises: A Conversation with Asante Haughton and Rachel BrombergOn this episode of Appointed, in the wake of calls to Defund the Police, Kim speaks with Asante Haughton and Rachel Bromberg, two mental health advocates and the founders of “Reach Out Response Network,” about shifting mental health responses to an anti-oppressive, trauma-informed model. Kim, Asante and Rachel discuss how current approaches to mental health crises may discourage people from getting help; the ways in which different countries have chosen to respond to mental health crises; and the roles that discrimination, poverty and racism play in how we respond to mental health in Canada.
This episode was reco...
2021-01-2643 min
Total Liberation60. Alternatives to Police: Responding to Mental Health CrisesRundown In this episode, Mexie sits down with Rachel Bromberg and Asante Haughton of the Reach Out Response Network in Toronto to talk about their work, which is revolutionizing crisis response in the city. Rachel and Asante are working to actualize a paradigm shift away from coercive, forceful, police-led intervention towards an anti-oppressive, trauma-informed model […]
2021-01-0741 min
Life in Red PodcastBest of 2020: Top 10 Listened to Episodes5:05 - #10: Luke Carroll | LIR on Stuck in Peru During a Pandemic
15:77 - #9: Sydney Dean | LIR on Therapy & Mental Health Support
25:44 - #8: Sarah Vezina | LIR on The Occupied Mind
37:25 - #7: Dr. Heloise F. Stevance | LIR on Space & The Universe
48:26 - #6: Maddie Brown | LIR on CBD & Cannabis
1:01:02 - #5: Asante Haughton | LIR on Black Lives Matter
1:13:20 - #4: Chloe | LIR on Stripping & Sex Work
1:25:45 - #3: Dr. Rachel Lindvall & Erin McLeod | LIR on Mindfulness
1:42:15 - #2: Reagan Bradley | LIR on Branding & Cannabis
1:54:05 - #1: Kwadwo Kyeremanteng | LIR on...
2020-12-312h 08Life in Red PodcastBest of 2020: Top 10 Listened to Episodes5:05 - #10: Luke Carroll | LIR on Stuck in Peru During a Pandemic
15:77 - #9: Sydney Dean | LIR on Therapy & Mental Health Support
25:44 - #8: Sarah Vezina | LIR on The Occupied Mind
37:25 - #7: Dr. Heloise F. Stevance | LIR on Space & The Universe
48:26 - #6: Maddie Brown | LIR on CBD & Cannabis
1:01:02 - #5: Asante Haughton | LIR on Black Lives Matter
1:13:20 - #4: Chloe | LIR on Stripping & Sex Work
1:25:45 - #3: Dr. Rachel Lindvall & Erin McLeod | LIR on Mindfulness
1:42:15 - #2: Reagan Bradley | LIR on Branding & Cannabis
1:54:05 - #1: Kwadwo Kyeremanteng | LIR on...
2020-12-312h 08
The BlackJack Pack PodcastMental Health (feat. Asante Haughton)Welcome to this episode of the BlackJack Pack Podcast! This week, we are joined by Mental Health specialiste Mr. Asante Haughton as we talk about mental health in black communities!--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theblackjackpack/message
2020-12-2344 min
COVIDCallsEP #189 - 12.16.2020 - Mental Health in the Pandemic with Asante HaughtonToday we have a discussion of mental health in the pandemic with Asante Haughton.
Asante Haughton has emerged as a leader in mental health. Asante has presented across the globe, including a pair of TEDx talks telling stories detailing the impact of family trauma on mental health. Through his work, Asante was also named as a CAMH 150 Difference Maker, being awarded the distinction of being one of the top 150 difference makers in Canadian mental health. Since 2019 as the host of Cypher (www.storiesforcaregivers.com), a web show that takes caregiving stories and turns them into songs, Asante...
2020-12-171h 13
The Mental Corner PodcastTedx Speaker Asante Haughton on Racism & Mental Health | The Mental Corner PodcastAsante Haughton comes on to discuss his journey to Mental Health recovery, why we need to teach our children about acceptance & emotions, and the racism - both subconscious and conscious- that is experienced in our society.
**I am NOT a professional. The topics that are covered are spoken solely from past personal experiences and, while the things I talk about have helped me in the past, they may not be a good fit for everyone**
Asante's Socials:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nerdy.black.guy/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/asanteV?s=20
2020-10-151h 27
2020-09-041h 00
VFC 2.0 on Left of Str8 Radio 8-29-2020: Special Guest Asante HaughtonWelcome to "Voices for Change 2.0" Co-Host's Rebecca and Joe Lombardo have been happily married for 15 years. At age 19, Rebecca was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and struggles with mental illness daily. In 2013, she survived a suicide attempt. As she recovered, she started a blog detailing her struggles. Eventually that blog was turned into a book called It’s Not Your Journey and is now available on Amazon.com.
Saturday: August 29, 2020: This Saturday we're featuring advocate and 2 time Ted-X speaker. Asante Haughton.
Rebecca is now an advocate for mental health as well as a best-selling author and international blogger. Joe is also an advo...
2020-08-2900 min
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 20: Anti-Racism and Mental Health with Asante Haughton, Motivational Speaker and Mental Health AdvocateIn today's episode I talk to Asante Haughton. Asante and I met in the summer of 2015 at the Narrative Therapy Intensive. Asante is a mental health advocate and motivational speaker. He's a program director, peer development and training manager at Stella's Place, a centre for Young Adult Mental Health, a web series host and interviewer, a poet, front-line worker, group facilitator, community outreach worker, researcher, prolific tweeter and a freelance writer. It seems like there isn't one job title for all Asante does. Asante does a lot of things.
He's passionate about positive social change, equality, and m...
2020-07-201h 40Life in Red PodcastAsante Haughton | LIR on Black Lives MatterOn this episode: Asante Haughton, a Human Rights Activist, Motivational Speaker, and CAMH 150 Difference Maker, comes on to talk about racism from his perspective. We talk about Black Lives Matter, the George Floyd protests, how racism affects mental health, police brutality, his mental health story, how to move forward and more!
You can get check out his work by following him on Twitter: @asanteV
2020-06-091h 11Life in Red PodcastAsante Haughton | LIR on Black Lives MatterOn this episode: Asante Haughton, a Human Rights Activist, Motivational Speaker, and CAMH 150 Difference Maker, comes on to talk about racism from his perspective. We talk about Black Lives Matter, the George Floyd protests, how racism affects mental health, police brutality, his mental health story, how to move forward and more!
You can get check out his work by following him on Twitter: @asanteV
2020-06-091h 11
Casey PalmerAsante Haughton | What IS Blackness, Exactly?Last updated on February 17th, 2024 at 03:21 am
“Am I Black enough?”
Table of contentsBlackness: More than just MelaninMy Journey with Blackness: The Moment that Forever Outlined It for MeSometimes You Just Need to Wake Up.What, Exactly, is Blackness?Blackness is What You Make It—Let’s Keep Making it Something GOOD.About Asante Haughtonpoet, thinker, researcher, and a speaker
Blackness: More than just Melanin
Those who’ve followed my podcast Chatting with Casey from its first episode know this isn’t the first time I’ve asked this question.
If you con...
2019-02-0100 min
Chatting with CaseyWhat IS Blackness, Exactly?In 2019's Live from the 3.5 Episode 1, we chat with Asante Haughton, Dad, Black Canadian, and mental health advocate about his views on Blackness and some things we can do to better it. You can catch his work on Twitter or through one of his two TEDx Talks on YouTube. If you want to jump on one of these podcasts yourself, check out the list of topics and let me know that you're interested!
2019-02-0128 min
Your Next ChapterE.27 - Asante Haughton - Overcoming AdversityWho is Asante Haughton?
Asante is a human rights and mental health advocate. He works for Pathways to Education and supports high-risk youth through high school to reach post-secondary education.
Asante had a challenging upbringing, battling with anxiety, depression, and addiction. Today he uses these experiences to guide kids through their own challenges and supports them in staying away from the streets.
He is a motivational speaker and has been on panels for mental health. He recently came back from Chile where he spoke about his life.
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2016-09-1900 min