Events

Welcome to our events page!

HIKE HOPE HEAL is our annual event each August benefiting Aspen Strong & the Mental Health Fund. Aspen Strong founded their organization on the basis of HIKE HOPE HEAL to connect our community and promote good mental hygiene. Each year during this event our community comes together to give a voice to mental health in the Roaring Fork Valley. Participants and volunteers take place in a morning yoga session and then hike up Smuggler Mountain. Register today to sponsor our 2018 hike!

Changing Brains, Changing Lives is a collaborative effort with valley wide partners to provide the Roaring Fork Valley with an educational opportunity for community members, professionals, and mental health workers to increase their emotional literacy and empower their understanding and awareness of mental health for them self, family, and community. The symposium focuses on the neurosciences of the brain providing education and strate- gies to support and enhance our ability to be present in this moment and resilient to future challenges.

Each year our symposium is a sell-out event! 2018 Changing Brains, Changing Lives will take place October 24th unveiling a mass media campaign for the Roaring Fork Valley on CONNECTION. Speakers include, Tina Payne Bryson, Christopher Willard, Michel Thompson, & Raj Sisodia.

The Mental Health Panel includes a panel of professionals presenting brief information about mental health to the community at large. This panel encourages Q&A from the audience to develop a better understanding and awareness for mental health. Please stay tuned for monthly gatherings at location along the 82 corridor.

National Depression Screening Day on October 11th, 2018. This day is held annually during Mental Illness Awareness Week and began as an effort to reach individuals across the nation with important mental health education and connect them with support services pioneered by Screening for Mental Health (SMH) in 1990. Aspen Strong, through our screening initiative, wishes to reach as many individuals and organizations in the Roaring Fork Valley for 2016. Please email info@aspenstrong.org for more information.

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"This was a very effective presentation and helped numerous employees connect to local resources and improve their mental hygiene. We will want to do it again," 2018 Workplace Partner
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"In Aspen we spend so much time talking about and working on our physical and spiritual fitness, but for some reason we completely ignore our mental wellness. Its as if we believe mental illness is reserved for those far removed from us, as if we are too "fit" for that type of thing. I would argue there is a fine and precarious line between mental wellness and illness. It is our duty to all of the parts of ourselves to keep our minds strong. Aspen Strong aims to do just that through ensuring that valley wide there are resources available to each of us that assess and support our mental hygiene, our mental fitness and our mental wellness. We can't be well in our physical and spiritual realms if our mental selves are not part of the equation. We truly are as great as the sum of our parts."
Lady Fuller, International Gifting Company
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"Aspen Strong plays an essential role-- increasing awareness of community resources, decreasing stigma, and advocating for the most vulnerable. Their annual symposium empowers professionals in the community, and their year-round efforts educate and connect people to mental health resources in order to reduce substance abuse, mental health crises, and suicide. By focusing on mental health hygiene and emotional literacy, as well as supporting the front line professionals, and promoting connections and various resources, Aspen Strong’s commitment to health wellness is inspiring."
Tina Payne Bryson, PhD; Co-author of The Yes Brain, and bestsellers The Whole-Brain Child, No-Drama Discipline; Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Connection & The Play Strong Institute
Lawrence Altman, CBD Trading & ASF donor.
I realized younger in life that it was important to help other people any way I could. I have been involved in many causes that I thought were important, but mental health as dominated my interest. My own mental health struggles led me to a wonderful doctor and through him I started the Aspen Mental Health Fund which lead me to an amazing young woman Christina King. Christina brought the Aspen Strong Foundation idea to me. I was so impressed with her incredible energy and determination to make a difference in the world of mental health that it had become my passion as well. I believe we help many people who desperately need it. We are determined to rid people of the stigma of getting help for mental health issues. I am proud to be involved with Aspen Strong!