Dr. Mishka Lysack

Location: Calgary

E-mail: mlysack@ucalgary.ca

Phone: 403.220.7648

Fax: 403.282.7269

Mailing address:
Faculty of Social Work
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary, Alberta
T2N 1N4
Canada

Mishka Lysack PhD (McGill) is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary, and teaches social work theory and practice, environmental issues, and family therapy.

In February 2008, he initiated and organized the first Teach-In on Global Warming and Climate Change at the University of Calgary, and is the coordinator of the ongoing series: Teach-ins on the Environment.

He is also the co-chair of the Curriculum and Research Portfolio of the Sustainability Stewardship Working Group of the Office of Sustainability at the University of Calgary.

Mishka’s current teaching, writing, and research interests include:

1. healing ecological grief
2. enhancing ecological literacy and environmental citizenship
3. creating political and institutional leadership regarding global warming, climate change, and other environmental issues
4. environmental ethics
5. ethics, political economy, and society
6. impact of the built environment on the emotional and social health of children, families, and communities
7. spirituality and the environment
8. mindfulness and environmental social action
9. healing patterns in sustainable lifestyles
10. environmental social action, social work practice and theory, and family therapy
11. international social work and the environment

Mishka is also on the organizing committee for Step It Up Alberta http://www.stepitupalberta.ca/ which is a non-partisan, community-based environmental NGO calling for leadership on climate change from politicians, institutions, corporations, and individuals.

Mishka is both a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor of AAMFT (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy) and a Clinical Teaching Member of AFTA (American Academy of Family Therapy). He has presented his clinical work internationally in Canada, England, Australia, and Finland.

He has taught family therapy, clinical social work practice, trauma and healing, and counselling at Carleton University, University of Ottawa, and St Paul University.

Mishka has studied at McGill University, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, and Carleton University.

In Ottawa, he worked for 13 years in a maximum security prison with multi-stressed youth and their families, as well as in a Youth Services Bureau agency and an aboriginal agency funded by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation for work with survivors of residential schools.

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