As part of our ongoing approach to whole person wellbeing, we would be delighted for you to join us in a one-hour live webinar on Wednesday 12th October at 12:00pm. 

The session will be hosted by Deborah Ayris, Operations Manager, Mental Health First Aid , who will be joined by a number of professional experts and individuals who have lived experience of poor mental health. We will start to explore how it feels to experience poor mental health, to understand how other factors such as discrimination and the pandemic have affected them, how to support someone with poor mental health, and to look at positive steps anyone can take to support better mental health and wellbeing at home, in work, and across communities.

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This years theme

The World Mental Health Day 2022 theme is 'Mental health in an unequal world'. This year's initiative will explore how the Covid-19 pandemic has particularly damaged the mental health of people struggling with existing issues, such as long-term health conditions or racial discrimination.

This year’s campaign seeks to raise awareness about populations who are at risk of poor mental health and unequal access to mental healthcare and to make global mental health and wellbeing a priority

World Mental Health Day is an initiative that was started by the World Federation for Mental Health, which is a global mental health-centric organization that has members and contacts in more than 150 different countries.

Speakers

Deborah Ayris

Operations Manager, Mental Health First Aid , St John Ambulance

Deborah's career spans working within the NHS, the care sector, and education. She has worked for SJA for nearly 9 years, heading up the mental health and wellbeing training and delivery for the past 4 ½ years.
Her role encompasses responsibility for product development and delivery, contributing to our organisational Mental Health Strategy, and acting as a subject specialist advisor to customers.
She has many reasons for being interested in Mental Health and Wellbeing, not least having an almost lifelong lived experience of poor mental episodes but she has seen how good education around mental health and wellbeing, and good management of individuals who do experience poor mental health can help someone thrive and achieve success with the proper support in place.

 

Helen Ablott

National Wellbeing Lead, St John Ambulance

Helen joined St John Ambulance in 2019 and since then has successfully grown and developed our wellbeing resources to help our people feel good and function well.
Prior to joining St John, she worked for charities, not-for-profit organisations, and the NHS.

She has many years of experience working on wellbeing-orientated projects, including promoting wellbeing to improve employee engagement and retention, developing a comprehensive wellbeing programme to prevent stress for professionals, and using it in a wider sense to complement a new healthcare service in the public sector.

 

Charlotte Neal

Head of Marketing, Turning Point

Charlotte has worked in Media and Marketing for twenty years, primarily for health and wellbeing organisations, with the goal of helping more people access the help and support they need.

She has a personal and professional interest in making the conversation about mental health open to all.

 

 

Mohammad Zubair Vania

Mental health services, counselling, mentoring and recovery work, Real Projects UK

Mohammad has personal lived experience that took place 8 years ago, and this helped him to rethink what his experiences have been and what is missing for others, predominantly in the BAME community. He started his own not-for-profit charity, Real Projects UK, to offer holistic services in the areas of, Mental Health, Offending, Substance Misuse, Counselling, and Faith. He started locally, but somehow ended up helping many nationally too, through word-of-mouth referrals reflecting on the service he offers. Also received referrals from Mental Health Matters and Bradgate unit. To manage his own wellbeing, he helps others, watches comedy, and enjoys more family time.

 

Sam Fuller

The Wellbeing Project

Sam Fuller is the founder and CEO of The Wellbeing Project, a leading workplace wellbeing consultancy. Sam has worked with some of the world’s biggest brands to build high performing cultures with wellbeing at the heart. She works directly with senior leaders and teams as a resilience and wellbeing expert, specialising in both physical and mental resilience, neuroscience, energy and change management.

 

Stephen Wood

The Wellbeing Project

Stephen Wood is a coach and facilitator specialising in workplace wellbeing. He co-founded a leadership development company that brings cutting-edge training to emerging leaders in organisations. He now works with The Wellbeing Project where he has designed and delivered wellbeing and resilience programmes for leading organisations. Stephen has gone on to complete additional training as a psychotherapeutic counsellor and he has a particular interest in supporting the mental health of the LGBTQ+ community.

 

Dr Evgenia Stefanopoulou MSc, PhD, DClinPsy

Registered Clinical Psychologist, Turning point

Dr Stefanopoulou is a Registered Clinical Psychologist, and the Lead Clinician for Rightsteps Wellbeing - part of Turning Point, a leading social enterprise delivering mental health, wellbeing and social services for over 55 years.