Euan Fraser Tait

Euan Fraser Tait is in the final year of his MA in Counselling Psychology at Western University. He graduated from Carleton University with an Honours Bachelor in Psychology and has many years of mental health crisis line experience. His psychological research interests lie primarily in the mental health benefits of compassion and learning to treat ourselves with kindness. Currently he is completing an internship at Fanshawe and facilitating a series of compassion-focused teen therapy groups.

Our society places a premium on endless production at the cost of time with ourselves and our loved ones which can over time strangle our artistic creativity and joy in life. Euan’s goal is to help others find creative ways of caring for themselves and growing to be best prepared for the challenges and hard work of a life well lived.

Euan will be partnering with the Embassy Cultural House to provide a monthly mental heath advice column for 2022, which will be available through ECH News in the coming weeks.

If you require mental health help please refer to the resources below:

Reach Out, 519-433-2023 or 1-866-933-2023, or web chat at http://reachout247.ca/ with a mental health and addictions professional who can provide information, resources and crisis support (London, Middlesex, Oxford and Elgin counties)

Good 2 Talk - 1.866.925.5454
Post-Secondary Student Helpline—free, professional and anonymous support for students in Ontario—counselling for anything you want to talk about—24/7/365

Or for other areas in Ontario, use https://www.connexontario.ca/en-ca/

Or use https://togetherall.com/en-ca/ an Online Mental Health Peer Support Community (that also has some professionals available for chat)

Left/Banner Image: Euan's family cottage in Nova Scotia that he feels communicates part of his therapeutic style.

EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,   JoAnna Weil

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson.

OUR STORY

Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.

Thank you to our partners

E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.