Thursday, Oct 8
1:00 pm PT/4:00 pm ET
Building Resilience During Challenging Times: A World Mental Health Day Conversation
When someone asks how you’re doing, what do you say? Are you doing well…or are you just “fine”?
On any given day, the people we encounter may be navigating far more than we can see: major life changes, family health crises, financial stress, and the weight of daily responsibilities. Layer on global instability, an uncertain economy, and political turmoil, and it’s easy to see why so many are feeling overwhelmed. It’s no wonder that mental disorders are the leading cause of disability worldwide. While we cannot always control our circumstances, the good news is that we can actively build the psychological skills to manage stress, adapt to change, and recover from adversity.
This World Mental Health Day, join Calm Health’s Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Chris Mosunic, author and psychologist Dr. Lise Deguire, and stress and burnout coach Chibs Okereke as they discuss practical strategies for cultivating resilience and helping individuals adapt, grow, and thrive during challenging times.
You’ll learn:
- The unique benefits of resilience for both organizations and individual team members
- Actionable tools to navigate stress and build resilience
- How organizations can implement programs that foster proactive cultures of resilience
Speakers
Lise Deguire, PsyD.
Clinical psychologist, and author.
Dr. Lise Deguire is a clinical psychologist, burn survivor, and author of the award-winning book, Flashback Girl: Lessons on Resilience from a Burn Survivor. Dr. Deguire has appeared on NPR, NBC, ABC, and FOX. She is a TEDx speaker (“SCARRED not Scary”), whose written work has been featured in Psychology Today, Huffington Post, The Psychotherapy Networker, and Thrive Global. Dr. Deguire is the author and voice of Calm Health’s Cheat Sheet for a Resilient Mindset series. She is the co-editor of Disfigurement: Understanding Visible Difference (Routledge Press.) Her manuscript in progress, about suicide and resilience, was a 2026 finalist for the Aurora Polaris Prize. Connect with Dr. Deguire at her website https://www.lisedeguire.com
Dr. Chris Mosunic
Chief Clinical Officer, Calm Health
Chris Mosunic is a licensed clinical psychologist and registered dietitian specializing in forming, scaling, and managing large provider teams and networks at healthcare start-ups and both privately and publicly held healthcare organizations. Before his current role as the chief clinical officer at Calm, Chris served as an executive healthcare leader at Yale New Haven Health, Johnson and Johnson, Rivermend Health, Advanced Recovery Systems, and Vida Health.
Chris received his undergraduate degree in biology and psychology from Bucknell University, his MS in nutritional biochemistry from Tufts, his PhD in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt, and his MBA from Yale.
Chibs Okereke
Stress and burnout coach, mindfulness expert.
Chibs Okereke (MSc Organisational Psychology) is a stress and burnout coach, mindfulness expert, and former burned-out CEO dedicated to helping high-achievers thrive without sacrificing their well-being. An accredited Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) facilitator, Chibs blends neuroscience-backed strategies, organisational psychology, and his personal experience of burnout to provide relatable and actionable tools for stress management and resilience.
His guided meditations and practical mindfulness tools have reached millions of people worldwide, helping individuals and teams address the deeper patterns behind burnout—like perfectionism, overthinking, and chronic self-pressure. Chibs has delivered hundreds of transformative workshops across the globe, supporting high-performing leadership teams within Fortune 100 companies and global brands to achieve sustainable success and genuine well-being.