Mental Health Awareness Week 2020
There has never been a better time in history to be focusing on mental health
10th – 17th October 2020
Join us for a 15-minute mindfulness practice to help you centre and focus on the day.
Lance Piacione, CEO of Love Me Love You Foundation has a message for when we talk to young people. Try not to be annoying! Importantly, for young people, it is about knowing ‘who is in your crew?’. In summary, this is about the five people who a young person can turn to, when needed. To have a conversation and connect around their mental health. Without a doubt, more we can do to keep the communication channels open, the better.
Andy Gild from Synergy Global shares how understanding our brain functioning can improve our daily mental health. Andy talks about how we can all experience ‘brain fog’. Furthermore, we know that some experiences will send us into fight/flight mode. For this reason, our awareness of basic re-balancing techniques can make a difference.
Join us for a 15-minute mindfulness practice to help you centre and focus on the day.
Charles Hill, community speaker from the Black Dog Institute reminds us that is ok. Ok to ask for help, to see a GP, to take medication if needed to address mental illness. Importantly, Charles is sharing his lived experience with depression and anxiety. So that others might benefit and to reduce the stigma that surrounds mental illness. Whilst at the same time unpacking the signs that we can look for in others. In addition, focussing on our own mental health.
Tanya Heaney-Voogt from Wombarra Consulting and Georgie Chapman from HR Legal speak from a wealth of knowledge and experience. In this session, Tanya speaks about the importance of a strategic approach to mental health and well-being in the workplace. A fruit bowl and a yoga session in the workplace is not a strategy! Tanya talks about an integrated approach to strategy. Georgie speaks about the need for employers to be aware of their legal obligations. Particularly, around creating a psychological safe workplace.
A 15-minute mindfulness practice to help you centre and focus on the day.
Become a Mental Health First Aid practitioner
The Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) course teaches you how to:
• implement simple, practical first aid skills
• help a person who is experiencing mental health problems
• listen and respond to someone including a crisis situation
• offer support for the successful management of symptoms
• assist someone as part of their recovery journey.
• actively reduce stigma in your community and your workplace
• respond appropriately to myths and misunderstandings.
Presented by Nick McEwan-Hall from Open Door Coaching
A 15-minute mindfulness practice to help you centre and focus on the day.
Miscommunication presents challenges for everyone, but for those with a mental health diagnosis it’s even more important to build trust and down-regulate stress related neurochemical reactions. Understanding the neuroscience of conversations offers a framework for supportive, healthy communication.
A 15-minute mindfulness practice to help you centre and focus on the day.
Become a Mental Health First Aid practitioner
The Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) course teaches you how to:
• implement simple, practical first aid skills
• help a person who is experiencing mental health problems
• listen and respond to someone including a crisis situation
• offer support for the successful management of symptoms
• assist someone as part of their recovery journey.
• actively reduce stigma in your community and your workplace
• respond appropriately to myths and misunderstandings.
Presented by Nick McEwan-Hall from Open Door Coaching
The Open Door Team is putting One Foot Forward to support mental health research
Did you know that 1 in 5 people experience symptoms of mental illness each year? In fact, every day in Australia, 8 people will die from suicide.
Mental illness can be debilitating and can have a devastating impact on not only those living with it, but those around them.
This October the Open Door team is delivering Mental Health First Aid Training and key-note speakers during Mental Health Awareness Week (12th to 16th October) to raise awareness about mental health. In addition, the Open Door team (including family, friends and clients) be walking to make a difference to the lives of people touched by mental illness and suicide! We might be in lockdown here in Victoria, but we want to start by clocking 920kms, which would be the equivalent of walking from the office in Elwood, Victoria to Sydney Opera House. That’s our first destination…let’s see how far we can go together!
At the same time we are fundraising to raise money for life-changing research into treatment and prevention of mental illness, as well as vital support services.
So far we have walked…….