24Apr
Webinar

Friday 24 April

Mental Health First Aid: Help for the Helpers

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Start: Friday 24 April 2020, 12:30 PM

End: Friday 24 April 2020, 01:30 PM

Event Overview

So you’ve done the mental health “first aid” (MHFA) training. Or maybe your colleagues have. But what next? How can first aiders make the most of their training back in the workplace? How do you encourage people to make use of the help they can provide, and at the same time ensure the first aiders themselves are adequately supported?

And what’s the role of a mental health first aider when people are working remotely?

This webinar is designed to provide practical help for mental health first aiders, their colleagues and their employers. Our speakers, many of them trained MHFAers, will offer advice on best practices (including on potential legal issues such as confidentiality and competence), share ideas and practical tips, and signpost sources of further guidance and support.

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Speakers

Fran Bleach, CIPA

Fran Bleach, CIPA

Fran is the Membership Officer at CIPA, having worked in a variety of roles in the organisation since 2008. She is also one of CIPA’s Mental Health First aiders and a keen advocate for the overcoming of the stigma associated with mental health issues. She collaborated with her colleagues on producing a short video highlighting the World Mental Health Day’s 2019 campaign #TimetoTalk.

Fran has a degree in Classical Civilisations from the University of Surrey, Roehampton and is a loud and proud gamer nerd. She is currently trying to figure out the mechanics of running a Murder Mystery night over video chat for her and her friends during the coronavirus lockdown.

Graham McCartney, Jonathan’s Voice

Graham McCartney, Jonathan’s Voice

Graham is a trustee and one of the founders of the mental health charity Jonathan’s Voice (Registered Charity Number 1180424). His son, Jonathan McCartney, was a patent attorney and partner at Haseltine Lake but tragically took his own life in October 2017 at the age of 35. Graham has a professional background of research and teaching in higher education in the field of materials engineering. Since 2018 he has been an active in giving talks on mental health and wellbeing for a number of different organisations including CIPA, CITMA and a number of firms in the IP sector.

Elizabeth Rimmer, LawCare

Elizabeth Rimmer, LawCare

Elizabeth has been managing and developing charities in the mental health sector for over 20 years.  She joined LawCare in  2014 from the Institute of Group Analysis, a membership and training organisation for group psychotherapists. Before that she headed up Alzheimer’s Disease International, a worldwide federation of Alzheimer Associations. Elizabeth started her working life as a solicitor specialising in clinical negligence, practicing at Leigh Day.

LawCare is an independent charity offering emotional support, information and training to the legal community in the UK and Ireland. We work to promote good mental health and wellbeing in legal workplaces and drive change in education, training and practice.  If you need to talk call us on 0800 279 6888 or visit  www.lawcare.org.uk

Anna Robinson, Anna Robinson Therapy

Anna Robinson, Anna Robinson Therapy

Anna retrained as a psychotherapist and counsellor after a long career as a senior immigration solicitor in the City.  She has since enjoyed a blended career which includes counselling clients across a wide range of emotional issues in private practice and charitable services, and managing wellbeing initiatives at a City law firm.

Anna is a Mental Health First Aid trainer and also collaborates with organisations to devise and present bespoke training in mental health and wellbeing.   She is en route to qualifying as a supervisor to support staff who are impacted by the dynamics of client work.   Anna is passionate about working therapeutically and co-creating its enriching benefits.

Sharon St Louis, EIP

Sharon St Louis, EIP

Sharon is a paralegal manager at EIP. She has been responsible for rolling out the Mental Health First Aiders initiative at EIP and has been a keen supporter of promoting awareness of mental health issues in the IP sector.

Lori West, Business Brilliance

Lori West, Business Brilliance

Lori West, founder and CEO of Business Brilliance, has been opening doors to opportunities and creating leaders her entire career.

She started her career launching Silicon Valley start-up technology companies into Europe during the dot com boom. Loving people development, she went on to help people recover from a variety of mental health challenges as a psychotherapist.

At present, Lori empowers leaders in the finance and technology sectors to create company cultures that actively promote mental wellbeing. As well as training mental health first aiders, she coaches leaders to powerfully and mindfully listen, collaborate, inspire and partner. Her passion lies in guiding people to discover how to create a life filled with power, freedom and fulfilment.

When she’s not saving the world, she likes to sing, dance, discover new restaurants, drink fine wine, play tennis, ski and get mindful during a daily yoga and meditation practice.

 

Andrea Brewster OBE, IP Inclusive

Andrea Brewster OBE, IP Inclusive

Andrea is a Chartered Patent Attorney and a former CIPA President. In the past she has served on the Institute’s governing Council and several of its committees.

Before her retirement she was a partner in a small regional IP practice, Greaves Brewster LLP, of which she had been a co-founder.

Andrea established IP Inclusive in 2015 to promote equality, diversity, inclusion (EDI) and wellbeing throughout the UK’s IP professions. Alongside many enthusiastic volunteers, she has developed the initiative into a well-connected and influential player in the IP sector. She became its first Lead Executive Officer in 2019.

 

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