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Keynotes & Workshops

Drawing on his recovery from severe traumatic brain injury, a career in national broadcasting, and more than twenty-five years as a storyteller and facilitator, Allan Boss delivers keynotes and workshops about healing, creativity, resilience, belonging, and the human capacity to imagine what comes next.

Updrafts: Seven Ways Up

Signature Keynote

Updrafts: Seven Ways Up is a compelling keynote about how people begin again after injury, disruption, loss, and change. It explores seven practical sources of renewal: Possibility. Direction. Memory. Humour. Vitality. Creation. Belonging. Through story, research, humour, and lived experience, Allan shows how small actions can make the future imaginable again.


Ideal for: healthcare and rehabilitation organizations, brain injury associations, mental health and wellness conferences, educators, nonprofits, and workplaces,.


Available as: 45–60 minute keynote, 90-minute presentation and discussion, or keynote-plus-workshop package.

Download the Updrafts keynote overview (PDF) 377.98 KB

The Healing Power of Art

Interactive Keynote and Workshop

The Healing Power of Art is an interactive keynote and workshop exploring how music, writing, movement, visual art, humour, and performance can support healing, cognition, emotional resilience, and connection. Drawing on Allan’s own experience using guitar, theatre, writing, memorization, and creative practice after brain injury, participants explore practical ways creativity can support individual and collective wellbeing.


Ideal for: rehabilitation programs, healthcare teams, caregivers, educators, arts and wellness organizations, and community groups.


Available as: 45–60 minute interactive keynote, 90-minute workshop, half-day session, or full-day program.

Download The Healing Power of Art keynote overview (PDF) 385.3 KB

Inspire your audience to imagine what's possible.