Channel Marker will present Matt Runnalls, an award-winning mental health expert and advocate, Thursday, Nov. 3, at the Avalon Performing Arts Theatre in Easton.

The show from 6:30 to 8 p.m. is free to the public.

Runnalls comes from Australia and is on tour. His presentation will include his personal recovery story with bipolar and strategies that everyone can learn from when dealing with overall health and wellness.

Runnalls works tirelessly as a mental health advocate to create awareness, acceptance, education and connection within communities to overcome the stigma and effects of suicide on a global scale. Using his own-lived experience of mental illness, surviving suicide attempts, and losing too many friends to suicide, Runnalls is continuously creating more platforms of communication to encourage everyone to feel comfortable to talk about and manage their well-being just as he continues to do.

Through his rediscovery of hope visible in the kindness of others, Runnalls found his passion and purpose when he wholeheartedly pursued the creation of Mindfull Aus at the age of 24. Since devoting himself to advocacy full-time, Runnalls has delivered over 600 speeches and keynotes, workshops and events across Australia and North America.

Runnalls is trained in NLP, a certified Breathwork & Meditation Practitioner, Sciences of Wellbeing, Intro to Psychology & Counseling, EQ and Quantum Learning as Alumni at California State University.

Runnalls’ drive and personal story have helped him assemble the most practical tools and strategies from world-renowned thought leaders and game-changers in the field of mental health, inspirational people he’s been privileged to meet, work with and learn from. Runnalls presents an array of lifestyle practices and mindsets that can propel you or someone you know struggling, to true and deep well-being and an unstoppable future.

Channel Marker welcomes you to make a donation toward this community event to help increase awareness of the importance of suicide prevention and education, encourage the community to have conversations about the topic of suicide, and to promote healthy healing as well as shining a light on hope for individuals in our community.

Channel Marker creates a healthy Mid-Shore community by providing mental illness treatment and prevention programs, wellness support and community services to individuals and their families.

For more information, contact Cathy Cassell at 410-822-4619 or ccassell@channelmarker.org.