2025 Concordia Annual Summit

Navigating Mental Health in the Digital Age with Goldie Hawn

  • Health Opportunities & Challenges
Goldie Hawn, Matthew Swift

Session Summary

Important
Quotations

"I think we're in a complete frenzy. We don’t know where to turn. There’s a lot of uncertainty right now. Tremendous uncertainty. There’s tremendous depression, there’s anxiety, and children are suffering. Our teenagers are suffering."
Goldie Hawn

Key
Takeaways

  • Current Mental Health Crisis: Widespread uncertainty, depression, and anxiety are affecting children, teenagers, and adults, human connections are deteriorating, and our need for belonging is being undermined.

 

  • Understanding Brain Function for Self-Management: The brain consists of the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus; negative emotions dim the thinking brain and create cycles of negativity, with roughly 80% of daily thoughts repeating.

 

  • Practical Solutions for Resilience: Deep, slow breaths can reset the brain and restore executive function; self-management skills are the same for adults and children, and mindset plus brain understanding form the foundation for resilience.

 

  • Preventative Approach Through Education: Schools need neuroscience-based programs teaching children about their brains, mental health education has been underfunded, and early brain education can prevent long-term mental health issues.

Action
Items

  • Immediate Implementation: Integrate breathwork training into workplaces and schools, fund programs like MindUP teaching neuroscience-based self-regulation, and train leaders in basic neuroscience to understand stress impacts on executive function.

 

  • Systemic Changes: Advocate for restored mental health funding in schools, create cross-sector partnerships to address gaps, and develop workplace cultures prioritizing emotional regulation and human connection over pure productivity.

 

  • Long-term Strategic Initiatives: Invest in preventative mental health education, build community resilience programs addressing belonging and connection, and support research and scaling of evidence-based emotional resilience programs for children and adults.

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