Raising Awareness — Instilling Hope — Combating Stigma

Carol Kivler will help you enter the world of depression through a patient’s perspective. Through her various presentations she will share her personal experience with four major, intensive bouts of depression; what she needed and continues to need from her family, friends, colleagues, and her treatment team; and how she dealt with the stigma that haunted her for the first eight years of her illness.

PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE
Demystifying ECT: What You Don’t See in the Movies
Don't Tell Anyone I’ve Had ECT - It’s My Secret
The Other Side of Psychosis
The Darkest Moments of Depression

Carol’s presentations are available as a keynote (30 - 90 minutes) or as an extended workshop (3 hours)

AUDIENCES:
Corporations - Foundations - Non-Profits - Foundations - Educational Institutions - Government Agencies - HR Professionals - Executive Mgmt - Staff - Executive Directors - Development Officers - Boards

PREVIOUS SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

The Robert Wood Johnson Wellness Center
Wyeth Research & Development
National Alliance on Mental Illness: In Our Own Voice (program participants)
NAMI National Conference (conference attendees)

SELECT TESTIMONIALS (View all testimonials)
“Thank you for speaking to us and telling us your story. Your presentation made a real impact on the researchers here. I have had nothing but positive comments from many of my co-workers about your presentation.”
Albert Uveges - Wyeth Research

“Every time Carol recounts her own experiences with mental illness and recovery she demonstrates that people who have mental illness can and do recover and live productive lives. By standing up and speaking out, Carol is breaking the stigma surrounding mental illness, one audience at a time.”
Jerry Lindauer - Executive Director, NAMI-Mercer (National Alliance of Mental Illness)

Carol’s presentations are available as a keynote (30 - 90 minutes) or as an extended workshop (3 hours)

15% of all Speaker fees are donated to NAMI - Mercer of New Jersey.

For more information contact: Carol Kivler at (609) 882-8988 or email her here.

For more information or to book Carol as a speaker call: (609) 882-8988 or email her here.
Carol's Speaker's Sheet
Carol's Media Sheet
Demystifying ECT
Don't Tell Anyone My Secret
The Other Side of Psychosis
The Darkest Moments of Depression
15% of all Speaker fees are donated to NAMI - Mercer of New Jersey.