Mental Health Awareness Week
As part of Mental Health Awareness Week we are working with Bournemouth University, Dorset Healthcare and other partners to put on a week long schedule of activities and seminars.
Programme at a Glance
Please ensure you book onto all of the events you wish to attend via the link
Monday 5 October (Community)
19:00-21:00 An audience with Terry Waite, CBE, Humanitarian and Author
Talbot Campus
Tuesday 6 October (Activity & Wellbeing)
09:00-13:30 - Mental Wellbeing for all
The Factory, 14 Alder Hills, Poole, BH12 4AS
Please contact fran.ceo@bournemouth.gov.uk if you wish to attend
11.30-14:30 - Health and Wellbeing ‘marketplace’
Atrium, Poole House, Talbot Campus
The combined staff and student wellbeing group will be working with a range of partners and providers to build a ‘marketplace’ of ideas and services available to support or enhance our health and wellbeing. The marketplace will showcase services for staff, students and the wider community.
11:45-12:45 or 15:30-16:30 - Mindfulness Taster Session
Dr Lauren Kita. Demonstrator, Faculty of Science and Technology, BU
Talbot Campus. (Please note session only open to BU students and staff)
12:00-13:30 - Fitness Testing and Reaction Board
The Atrium, Poole House, Talbot Campus
12:00-18:25 - SportBU: Fitness Classes
Sessions run all day, see event details below for further information
12:30-13:30 - #footballtherapy 4 mental health wellbeing
Colin Dolan, Founder Mental Health Footballl, UK, Lansdowne Campus
14:00-15:00 - Developing High Level Sports Performers: Are We Creating Super Humans or Premature Mental Health Problems
Dr Rick Hayman, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University and Prof. Remco Polman, Head of Psychology, BU, Lansdowne Campus
15:30-16:30 - Sport and Crime – An exploration of athlete experiences
Lucy Sheppard-Marks. Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Management, BU, Lansdowne Campus
Wednesday 7 October (Employment)
9:30-10:30 - Starting the conversation: how employers are tackling mental health stigma
Sue Baker. Director Time to Change. Lansdowne Campus
10:00-11:00 - Mindfulness Taster session
Dr Lauren Kita. Demonstrator, Faculty of Science and Technology, BU.
Lansdowne Campus (Please note session only open to BU students and staff)
11:00-12:00 - Reclaiming the ‘wasted years’: one person’s journey from Mental illness to employment
Angela Warren. Service User & Carer Coordinator, Faculty of Health and Social Care, BU. Lansdowne Campus
13:30-14:30 - Mental Health - the last great workplace taboo?
Lee Dargue. Occupational Health Manager, Siemens and Chair of the Liberal Democrat Mental Health Association. Talbot Campus
15:00-16:00 - Employment and Recovery
Becky Aldridge, Chief Executive Dorset Mental Health Forum. Talbot Campus
Thursday 8 October (Education)
10:30-11:30 - Helping Children Make Healthy Choices
Karen Perryman, Rachel Hall, and Gary Hepburn, Life Education Wessex. Lansdowne Campus
13:30-14:30 - Online Safety or Digital Wellbeing - Have We Got the Correct Focus?Professor. Andy Phippen, Plymouth University. Talbot Campus
15:00-16:00 - Eating Disorders and Schools - Support for teachers, parents and pupils
Lorna Garner, Chief Operating Officer, BEAT Student Hall, Talbot Campus
Friday 9 October (Public Services)
9:00-09:40 - Dorset Acute Mental Health Services review - overview and progress
Kath Florey-Saunders, Head of Review Design and Delivery – Mental Health and Learning Disabilities and Elaine Hurll, Senior Commissioning Manager – Mental Health, NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group. Lansdowne Campus
10:00-11:00 - Understanding Personality Disorders
Dr Laurence Mynors-Wallis, Consultant Psychiatrist Dorset HealthCare. Lansdowne Campus
11:45-13:00 - Mental Health and Policing
Dr Andrew Mayers, Senior Lecturer BU, Stan Sadler, Team Lead and Mental Health Practitioner, Dorset HealthCare and Simon Thorneycroft, Mental Health Co-ordinator, Dorset Police, Martyn Underhill, Police Crime Commissioner. Lansdowne Campus
13:30-14:30 - Mental Health and Young People
Norman Lamb MP. Lansdowne Campus
15:00-16:00 - Hidden Talents – Lived Experiences of Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust staff
Mike Oates, Chaplain Sarah Clark, OT Hannah Blunt. Nurse and Donna Jenkins, Administrator, Dorset HealthCare. Lansdowne Campus
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