Bayfield

Confirmed Speakers

• Laura Sygrove
  Laura Sygrove is the co-founder and executive director of New Leaf Yoga Foundation, a charitable organization bringing yoga programs into some of the least-serviced communities and facilities in Ontario, including youth correctional centres, gang-exit initiatives and other community-based programs for young men and women who are over-coming histories of abuse, neglect and marginalization. New Leaf’s mission is to support and encourage young people to realize their potential by recognizing the resources they hold within themselves. Laura has worked with young men in custody for more than 5 years and currently facilitates New Leaf's program at Roy McMurtry Youth Centre in Brampton.
• Stephen Baker
  Stephen Baker is the Principal of Virtual High School Ontario. The mission of the Virtual High School is to provide students with the opportunity to achieve success according to the student's own interests, abilities and goals. By providing a quality online education within the student's greater educational community, Virtual High School can offer the student more choice. While the Virtual High School may have changed the form of the traditional physical school in which this mission is carried out, they have not changed the provision of providing quality education to the student. Virtual High School extends into the actual home of the student, where we provide all of the essential components necessary for a quality education.
• Dr. Lorelei Lingard
  Dr. Lorelei Lingard is a leading researcher in the study of communication and collaboration on healthcare teams. She is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and the inaugural Director of the Centre for Education Research & Innovation at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. Dr. Lingard obtained her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the English Department at Simon Fraser University, specializing in rhetorical theory, genre theory, medical discourse, and qualitative methodology. As a rhetorician, she investigates ‘language as social action’: that is, how social groups use language to get things done, and how that language acts on them, their identities, their purposes, their situations, and their relationships. Her research program has investigated the nature of communication on inter-professional healthcare teams in a variety of clinical settings, including the operating room, the intensive care unit, the internal medicine ward, the adult rehabilitation unit, and the family health centre.
• Paul Ciufo
  Paul Ciufo is a Canadian Playwright. His play “Reverend Jonah” was a finalist for the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Awards, Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes. “Reverend Jonah” premiered and was a smash hit at Blyth Festival Theatre. Paul’s play “Narcisse” garnered a 2011 Governor General’s History Award for its producer, the St. Joseph & Area Historical Society. The playwright’s hit thriller “A Killing Snow” launched Blyth Festival’s 2010 season. Both “Reverend Jonah” and “A Killing Snow” have been published by Scirocco Drama. Paul’s radio drama “On Convoy” was produced and broadcast nationally by CBC Radio. “On Convoy” was originally a stage play produced by Goderich Little Theatre Company. Currently Paul is working on a new play script, “A Circle in the Field” (working title). Paul is also an acclaimed public speaker, winning a World Championship University Public Speaking contest.
• Lynn Ogryzlo
  Lynn Ogryzlo is changing the local food world one household at a time with her $10 message. A culinary activist, food columnist, and cookbook author her cookbooks are all Canadian best sellers and international award winning books. Her first, Niagara Cooks, from farm to table won the Best Local Food Cookbook in Canada by Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and then went on to win Silver for Best Local Food Cookbook in the World. All of Lynn's books are about being reconnected with our most trusted, safest, freshest, best quality and most dependable source of food – that which grows in our own back yard. Lynn has issued Ontario with the $10 Challenge, to which she says, "If every household in Ontario spent $10 a week on local food, we’d have an additional $2.4 billion in our local economy at the end of the year. Keeping our money circulating grows those dollars to $3.6 billion and creates 10,000 new jobs." It’s a simple message but one that has the ability to empower us all.