Bookmark Presents: An Evening with Dr. Brent Macdonald

We are very pleased to host an evening with Dr. Brent Macdonald discussing his book, Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Mental Toughness for Everyone on Thursday, October 6th at 7 PM at The Carriage House, 2 Kent Street, Charlottetown.

Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight is a highly readable, user-friendly book that draws on robust evidence and incorporates lessons from history, sociology, psychology, pop culture, and personal and clinical examples. Readers will learn about what Mental toughness (MT) is, how it can be assessed, and how it can be applied to their professional and personal lives. Specific strategies for enhancing performance using MT are included!

MT is a scientifically validated, well-researched concept that builds upon constructs such as resilience, grit, mindset, risk assessment, and other areas of interest to a wide range of professionals. It has its roots in sports performance but has a wide range of applications in numerous fields.

MT is the ability to recognize our perception of life’s challenges and how we approach (or avoid) difficult situations. MT has a great deal of evidence to support its use in education, psychology, social work, medicine, business, and coaching, among other areas.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DR. BRENT MACDONALD is a registered psychologist in Alberta, British Columbia, PEI, Nova Scotia, and the Northwest Territories, and is a certified teacher with over 25 years’ experience working with individuals with a variety of complex learning differences. He has taught at the junior and senior high level and was the assistant principal at an independent school for students with learning disabilities. He is a sessional instructor in the Departments of Psychology, Continuing Education, and Community, Health & Education at Mount Royal University. He is also an adjunct assistant professor with the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary.

He is currently the lead psychologist with his own practice, Macdonald Psychology Group (complexlearners.com), which in addition to providing counselling and assessment services, also provides consultation services to educators and parents in Alberta, PEI, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and the NWT.

Brent believes that taking risks and learning from mistakes are characteristics that lie at the core of human performance and that all learners are complex learners.

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