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The Tanner Steffler Foundation is
bringing mental health advocate and
long-time Canadian sports
broadcaster Michael Landsberg to
Mitchell this April on the heels of
three successful events in Huron
County in the spring of 2017.
The event, which is scheduled for
Thursday, April 11, is sponsored by
Mitchell’s Ignite the Fight in co-
ordination with Mitchell Ringette
and with support from the Tanner
Steffler Foundation. There will be
two events: first a sit-down dinner
with Landsberg at the Mitchell Golf
Club, followed by an evening
conversation with Landsberg at the
West Perth Community Centre.
The foundation first brought
Landsberg to Huron County last
May, starting with a high school
student discussion in Exeter,
followed by a dinner event at Blyth
Cowbell Brewing Company and
then a discussion at Memorial Hall
in Blyth, all of which were very well
attended.
When in Blyth, Landsberg said
that he felt all of the same mental
health concerns in Huron County
would be felt across the country and
he hoped there would be a stronger
support network amongst friends,
families and neighbours in a
community like Huron County as
opposed to those in large urban
centres.
“I think Huron County would be
identical to virtually every county
this size in this country,” Landsberg
said. “The same issues exist
everywhere. One asset a small
community has is the sense of
community where you can hopefully
engender a spirit in a community
that’s hopefully a safe place for
mental health. You can’t do that in a
big city.”
Landsberg reiterated this point
during his speech at Memorial Hall.
He said that having a sense of
community can be an excellent
jumping-off point for mental health
awareness.
When he speaks in larger city
centres like Toronto, he said, he’s
not speaking to community. Rather,
he said, he’s speaking to a number of
people who happen to live in the
same area, but there isn’t the same
sense of community that can be
found in smaller towns like those in
rural Ontario.
When Landsberg was here in May,
2017, he said that not only was he
able to speak with and tell his story
to nearly 1,500 people, but he said
he felt like he took something away
from his time in Huron County as
well.
“I felt like I learned a lot. For me it
was time really well spent,”
Landsberg said. “You have to pick
and choose where you go to speak
on this subject and it needs to be
time well spent and it was. I loved it.
I found the level of openness and
honesty of the students in the crowd
was unlike anything I’d ever seen.”
After realizing he was depressed
and subsequently seeking help,
Landsberg began to speak publicly
about mental health awareness more
and more. He and his daughter have
since started the Sick Not Weak
charity that seeks to end the stigma
that mental illness is a weakness in a
person, rather than a sickness just
like any other physical disease or
condition.
As Landsberg has transitioned out
of sports broadcasting and has made
speaking on mental illness his full-
time job, he said he feels like he does
more for the world in one day now
than he did in his whole career on
television.
He said that putting his
broadcasting and public speaking
skills to work as an advocate for
mental health awareness hasn’t been
a difficult transition. He’s using the
same skills, he said, but he’s dealing
with a new subject matter.
“Now, I get to take all the skills
that I’ve learned, that I’ve studied,
that I’ve benefited from and my
experiences and now I get to use
them speaking on stage, so it’s not a
big leap,” he said. “The subject
matter, more than anything is me.
I’m sharing my own life experiences
and the more I share, the more open
I am, the more candid I am, the more
effective I am.”
For more information on the event,
visit the Tanner Steffler Foundation
website or to buy tickets, visit
www.eventbrite.ca.
Steffler Foundation to bring Landsberg to Mitchell
From near and far
After a long and storied career in the world of sports
broadcasting, Michael Landsberg has had quite the second
act, speaking about mental health and wellness all over the
country. He was in Huron County in 2017, speaking in
Exeter and Blyth, seen above, and now he’s returning to the
area to speak in Mitchell this April. (File photo)
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