Resilience, leadership, and mental health in action

Opinion

By Dr. Katy Kamkar and Wendel Clark

Resilience is not about avoiding adversity. It is about adapting, recovering, and rising through it. In sport, public safety, and leadership, strength is built through connection, emotional awareness, and trust. This article combines NHL icon Wendel Clark’s lived experience and clinical psychologist Dr. Katy Kamkar’s expertise to offer health and safety leaders practical tools grounded in trauma-informed principles to strengthen mental well-being across teams and communities.

Lessons from the ice: Adaptability, purpose, and leadership

Wendel Clark’s memoir, Bleeding Blue (Clark & Brunt, 2017), captures the mental toll of elite sport, injury, pressure, setbacks, and the resilience required t

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