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We’re glad you’ve found us. If you live in the Ottawa area and have a loved one with BPD, we hope that we will be able to help you. If you are in crisis, please use the emergency information you will find by clicking on "read more" or call 911.

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Public Event: Transforming Stigma to Compassion: Reconnecting to the Person

Public Event
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 7:00-8:30 PM
Transforming Stigma to Compassion: Reconnecting to the Person
Shawn Fisk
Educator, facilitator and ON-BPD Board Member

Advance Registration: Advance Registration is required using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pPdvqeCbRw6wtz2uYaG27Q

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Virtual Panel Discussion on Enhancing Lifeline Connections in the National Capital Region

Join our panelists for a virtual discussion on
Enhancing Lifeline Connections in the National Capital Region
Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 7-8:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Advance Registration: Advance Registration is required using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jI_nGBPNSC6o15GuRznXlA

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Public Lecture: Concurrent Disorders: Ethics and Stigma In Borderline Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorder

Public Lecture
Thursday, March 16, 2023, 7:00 PM
Concurrent Disorders: Ethics and Stigma In Borderline Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorder
Shawn Fisk
Educator, facilitator and ON-BPD Board Member

Advance Registration: Advance Registration is required using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oBuZbWVKR0a3UAmvQg_Aiw

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Message from our President

22 December 2022

Michèle Langlois
Michèle Langlois
President of ON-BPD and
Facilitator of Family Connections courses

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
—Margaret Mead, anthropologist and recipient of the Planetary Citizen of the Year Award, 1978

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Practical ways to deal with difficult relationship situations that push our buttons

Date and time: September 20, 2022, 6:00-7:30 p.m. via Zoom

Registration: This family information and support group session is free and open to the public, however registration is required and limited space is available. This session is available in English only. Please click here to register.

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Public Lecture: How to Make a Self-Regulation Map and Find Your Way Back to Calm

Public Lecture
Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 7:00 PM
Crisis and Coping Plans Don’t Work? How to Make a Self-Regulation Map and Find Your Way Back to Calm
Dr. Michael Cheng
Psychiatrist, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa

Advance Registration: Advance Registration is required using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_weuIoOFHS8KGoYIZQSOd2g

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Public Lecture: The Longitudinal Course of Borderline Personality Disorder

Public Lecture
Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 7:00 PM
The Longitudinal Course of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Mary C. Zanarini, Ed.D.
Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Director, Laboratory for the Study of Adult Development, McLean Hospital

Advance Registration: Advance Registration is required using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_paSh6PMEQ7ugWv2mz6fTmw

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Public Lecture: Emotion Dysregulation in Borderline Personality Disorder and ADHD

Public Lecture
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 7:00 PM
Emotion Dysregulation in Borderline Personality Disorder and ADHD: A Mess in Need of Sorting
Dr. Lawrence Martin
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

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Public Lecture: Update on Treatment: Good Psychiatric Management (GPM) and Medication for Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

Public Lecture
Thursday, September 30, 2021, 7:00 PM
Update on Treatment: Good Psychiatric Management (GPM) and Medication for Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Dr. Paul Links
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

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