Colleges

Overview

Educational Institutions, universities, colleges and spiritual organizations often request more information about our speakers. The Bipolar Advantage speakers give dynamic presentations of issues in the forefront of mental health. Offering ideas beyond the spectrum of normal perceptions of mental illness and models of treatment, our speakers are positive, thought provoking, challenging and inspiring.

Talks and Keynotes

Bipolar Advantage has an incredible team of presenters. Inspirational, informative, engaging, revolutionary -- are just some of the remarks we hear about keynote presentations by Bipolar Advantage speakers. Check our Calendar of Events for talks near you. Contact us if you would like to have us bring a talk to your group.

You can also see videos of our talks if there is not an event in your area.

Bipolar Advantage speakers are available to travel and speak at your events, guest speaker forums and visiting faculty speaker series. We do talks and keynotes worldwide for groups from 50 to 5,000.

Topics include:

  • Results worth striving for
  • Rage, the underlying reason for violence
  • Mind Skills; controlling your greatest asset
  • Introspection, how thoughts guide actions
  • How to turn bipolar and depression to your advantage
  • Nourishing Relationships that Work
  • Spirituality and depression
  • Side by Side, a walk with depression
  • The X-Men; a different take on bipolar
  • The Biopsychosocial Model of Assessment and Treatment
  • The Bipolar Economy, survival lessons from the Advantage Program

You can arrange a talk or keynote presentation by contacting our office. Please look at our press kit and our list of speakers. Let us know what topics might be of interest, especially if you are interested in something you don't see listed here! Let us know your preferred date for a presentation if you have one. We are happy to speak with you by phone and can provide an extensive list of previous events with references.

Visit our Advantage Program Outreach Section For more information.

Resources For Colleges

Are you having a mental health fair or awareness day on campus? We are happy to provide free brochures, information, and wholesale pricing on books and videos so you can use them to raise money for your cause. Contact us for more information.

Workshops

Bipolar Advantage speakers are available to teach workshops as part of your visiting faculty or speaker series. For those interested in a more experiential, learning intensive events, these workshops are a perfect fit. Instructors are able to tailor workshops to your needs.

We have assembled some of the top experts in their fields creating a first rate series of workshops for understanding and thriving with mood disorders or conditions like depression and bipolar. Bipolar In Order is for those with depression and bipolar, but is attended with great benefit by those with other conditions, friends and family, and professionals. It is considered the foundation of our workshop series.

Other workshops include, Relationships, Spirituality, Psychiatry, Mind Skills, Addictions, and Life Planning. Descriptions of all of our workshops can be found in the education section.

Although the educational workshops can be taken separately, the combination of them all provides a necessary base of knowledge as well as a shift in thinking that leads to success. Upcoming workshops are listed in our Calendar of Events. For a full description of the workshops please click here.

Contact Us to register for upcoming workshops or organize workshops at your location.

Videos

Watch clips from our public speaking engagements on our web site or on our YouTube Channel. You can subscribe to our YouTube Channel and get notified when new videos are posted as well as post comments. Video clips that highlight important concepts are an easy way to get a taste of what you might experience in our talks and workshops. Highlighting important concepts, video clips can get you started on educating yourself.

You can also find DVDs in our store for purchase.

Purchasing and showing DVDs in classes and public meetings is a great way to start a conversation or discussion on related topics in your educational community.

Books

Great reading, good lessons, and fundamental ideas of Bipolar Advantage are available in our books. Tom Wootton's The Bipolar Advantage and The Depression Advantage have become 'must read' books for those with bipolar and depression. Read a short description, reviews, and table of contents here.

Buy Bipolar Advantage books by our educational, and professional team in our store.

All books are available at wholesale price for special events, fundraisers, and course required reading. Contact us with your interest and request.