Dr. Katie Forfar grew up in Markham, joined the Army, bartended, went to four universities but the first one didn’t count, and finally settled in Pembroke with a Renfrew boy. She has two children and an awful cat. She misses having the spare time to make stained glass. She desperately gardens. She is a Family Doctor and likes providing Primary Care out of Beachburg but loves providing Palliative Care across Renfrew County. She began offering Medical Assistance in Dying in 2020 and around that time also began to work more closely with the Renfrew County Community Paramedic Response Unit. They eventually crowned her “Medical Director for Palliative Care, “ a title for which she feels unworthy being only a backwoods family generalist physician with an interest in Palliative Care. If you are more qualified, please let her know. She recently became the ‘go-to’ doctor for the Marianhill hospice in Pembroke.
Julie Keon is many things: a Grief & Bereavement Counsellor (RSSW), certified Life-Cycle Celebrant, end-of-life doula, death educator, published author and a mother to her daughter, Meredith, who is medically fragile. Through her business, Ready or Not End-of-Life Services, Julie offers specialized care including private counselling with a focus on dying, death, loss and grief, custom and meaningful ceremonies (funerals/ celebrations-of-life), and a unique, 6-week death preparation course to help healthy mortals confront and prepare for their inevitable demise. Julie also fills a niche in her community as an end-of-life doula for those choosing MAiD and the families that care for them. Embodying knowledge and experience (personal and professional), Julie weaves humour and authenticity into all her offerings.
Michael Ungar, Ph.D., is a Family Therapist and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie
University where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community
Resilience. His research on resilience around the world and across cultures has made him the
number one ranked Social Work scholar in the world, with numerous educational institutions,
government agencies, not-for-profits and businesses relying on his research and clinical work to
guide their approaches to nurturing child, family, organizational and community wellbeing under
stress. He the author of 18 books for mental health professionals, educators, caregivers and
employers, including his most recent works The Limits of Resilience: When to Persevere, When
to Change, and When to Quit, a book for individuals and organizations under stress, and Change
Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success, a book about our emerging
understanding of resilience as more than individual grit. As well as having received numerous
awards for his work, including the Canadian Association of Social Workers National
Distinguished Service Award and being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Dr.
Ungar also maintains a blog, Nurturing Resilience, which can be read on Psychology Today’s
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