Meet Our Mental Health Facilitators
DR. Lisa Ndejuru
Black Women’s Collective Care Circles Creator and facilitator.
Dr. Lisa Ndejuru is a psychotherapist, psychodramatist and theatre practitioner. Her practice is about creating accessible, non-medicalized, scalable strategies for healing and change in our communities, impacted by the violence of anti-blackness in all its forms. Violence flattens our lives and creates silences. Lisa wants to work on intergenerational transmission of trauma, breaking the silences and repairing trust within our communities. Lisa works to open pathways to wellness, emancipation, and finding one’s voice in a post-colonial context of everyday oppression, systemic racism, and large-scale political violence. Lisa’s work on trauma started in her community with survivors of organized violence and colonial violence. She was one of the 2017 Concordia public scholars and the first John F. Lemieux fellow for genocide studies in 2018. As the 2020 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto’ faculty of information, she is working with the “Vansina collection” of Ibitekerezo tales.
Philippe Koffi
Black Men’s Collective Care Circle Facilitator
"Koffi", as everyone calls him, is passionate about people. Specialized in relational intelligence and resilience (Non Violent Communication, mediation, Solution Focused Brief Therapy) he has 12 years of experience in intervention and animation with youth and their families.
Certified trainer by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, he regularly intervenes as a family consultant and mediator. Koffi preaches by example, the healing power of the approaches he shares, he has experienced them himself in his personal life, in order to grow and be at peace after the grief and trauma he has gone through.