Webinars and podcasts

Webinars

A Beyond Blue hosted panel: Recharging your Wellbeing

This webinar brings blends real-life storytelling and experiences with best practice, giving a practical and uplifting approach to help re-motivate wellbeing.

Hear insights and stories from: 

• Patrice O’Brien, Chief Community Officer, Beyond Blue;
• Dr Karina Jorritsma, Professor of Practice, Future of Work Institute, Curtin University;
• David Knoff, a former Antarctic station leader, on staying well through challenging times; and
• Monica Das, a Beyond Blue speaker, on living with a mental health condition and staying well.

The webinar refers to a range of tools and resources, including the Thrive at Work for mental health at work and the Path Back from Social Isolation.
 

Mental Health online training course for small business advisers

In this webinar, Beyond Blue Workplace Engagement Manager Linda Sheahan and small business adviser and Beyond Blue Speaker Tim Hoopmann speak to Beyond Blue partner Go1 about the role intermediaries like accountants and other advisers can play in supporting small business owners with their mental health and wellbeing.

The webinar focuses on ‘Mental Wellbeing: Support Yourself and Small Businesses’, Beyond Blue’s new online training course for small business advisers and how this resource can assist to navigate these conversations as well as give you the tools to support your own mental wellbeing.

Mental health and retirement villages

The retirement village lifestyle is enormously enriching for many older Australians. The villages combine practical living spaces with a community atmosphere that allows residents to share time with others at a similar stage of life. 

In this webcast, Beyond Blue Lead Clinical Adviser, Dr Grant Blashki discusses:

• The importance of good mental health for village managers and those who work at villages; and

• the role village managers can play by helping to create an environment where resident’s mental health can flourish so they can enjoy fulfilling and rewarding lives. 

A tutorial on how to support small business owners

The presenters of this webinar will take you through how to use the Beyond Blue guide Supporting small business owners to improve their mental health and wellbeing at work – A guide for work contacts, friends and family. Covering real life scenarios, the presenters offer practical tips to help you make the most of the guide.

Presented by:

• Greg Jennings, Head of Workplace, Beyond Blue
• Tim Hoopmann, Owner, Spinn Business Solutions

Workplace mental health strategies in action

Proactively promoting mental health is an opportunity for workplaces to improve productivity, attract and retain talented staff and achieves a positive return on investment.

Research has shown that an integrated strategy that includes promotion, protection and support is the most effective and sustainable approach.

Hear the experiences of two different organisations at varying points of their journey to improve mental health in their workplace.

Panellists include:

• Michael O’Hanlon, Workplace Engagement Manager, Beyond Blue (Facilitator)
• Gareth Gammon, Chief Operating Officer, Jirsch Sutherland Insolvency Solutions
• Sarah Potts, General Manager Northern NSW / Sydney Operations Manager, Southern Cross Austereo

Rewatch the webinar below.

Supporting someone with a mental health condition return or remain at work

There is considerable evidence that work is generally good for health and wellbeing, and that long-term work absence and unemployment can have a negative impact on health and wellbeing.

Through our engagement with workplaces, we often hear that this can be a challenge due to a lack of understanding about the best way to approach the situation.

In this webinar, hear from the perspective of a manager, employee and clinical advisor on how best to support someone with a mental health condition return or remain at work.

Panellists include:

• Linda Sheahan, Workplace Engagement Manager, Beyond Blue (Facilitator)
• Jo Farmer, employee
• Dr Grant Blashki, Lead Clinical Advisor, Beyond Blue
• Steve Schubert, manager

Rewatch the webinar below.

Small business mental health – the role of work contacts, friends and family

Join us on this webinar and hear from industry leaders about how you can support small business owners’ mental health. Beyond Blue has been working with intermediary organisations to develop resources for small business advisors to help them to support their clients and customers with their mental health and wellbeing. We’ll cover how you can help and what resources are available to assist you in providing this support.

Panellists include:

• Patrice O’Brien, General Manager Workplace, Partnerships & Engagement, Beyond Blue (Facilitator)
• Andrew Watson, Assistant Commissioner – Small Business Experience, Australian Taxation Office
• David Gregory, Chief Executive Officer, Small Business Mentoring Service
• Amanda Linton, Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Certified Bookkeepers
• Tim Hoopmann, Small Business Owner, Spinn Business Solutions

These industry leaders will discuss how people who work in a service or advisory role to small business can play a powerful role in promoting, protecting and supporting the mental health of their small business clients and customers. 

“It’s not about becoming counsellor or clinician but it’s about having the knowledge and the skills to recognise when someone might be struggling with their mental health. It’s about knowing how to manage and have a difficult conversation with someone who might be going through a difficult time and it’s about knowing what supports and resources you can direct them to, to help them get the support that they need. But it’s also importantly about setting boundaries and looking after yourself.”

Rewatch the webinar below. 

Rewatch the webinar below.

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