Josh Chauvin has a great passion for reducing the stigma attached to mental health problems, and has worked to combat prejudice during his master's and doctoral studies in psychology at Oxford and in his native Canada. At the Salzburg Global program New Paradigms for Behavioral and Mental Health Care in December 2014, he shared his experiences of how his organization, Mind Your Head, is using video testimonies to help mental health patients share their stories and realize they are not alone. "It lets them know that they are not alone in their suffering," he explains. "[The videos] make a statement of a community that wants to embrace them. To be a part of that, and to see that, is empowering. Mind Your Head drew inspiration from the It Gets Better campaign, which sought to help teenagers facing homophobic bullying. It Gets Brighter has a similar aim, tackling the stigma of mental health issues. So far contributors have included comedian Ruby Wax and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. "The effect is the cathartic feeling one gets from telling their story to someone else, and getting a response from another sharing mutual feelings. My best friend suffered from this as well, my mother, brother, sister, father suffered from this too,' all build a sense of community and goes to some miles in terms of transcending those barriers and those stigmas associated with mental health issues." Of his time in Salzburg, Chauvin says: "The Salzburg Global experience has allowed me to see the phenomenal variety of experiences that there is. The mental health issue in Canada is very different from the mental health issue Ghana, Uganda, or the UK. There are a variety of social factors that influence not only the way we see and interpret mental health issues, but also how we respond. I have become alive to the world of perceptions that is out there."