Your staff member’s attendance and productivity can be significantly impacted by the mental ill-health of family members, especially children. Therefore we provide seminars and keynotes that can help your staff to build the mental health of their children and other family members. These benefit your staff and your company.

Seminars (e.g. ‘Lunch and Learn’)

We provide live (in-person or online) multi-media presentations tailored appropriately for your staff. They normally last for 45 minutes followed by a question/answer session, but timing can be adjusted to suit.

They are presented live by accredited Family Mental Wealth team members, and feature video contributions from Dr Joshua Harwood, Dr Elizabeth McNaught, and Dr Faith Orchard.

N.B. These multi-media presentations will be tailored specifically to the needs of the attendees, using language and style that is appropriate for them. They can be shaped for any type of attendee, from shop-floor workers to board members.

We provide two different presentations:

  • FROM RISK TO RESILIENCE: KEY SKILLS FOR BUILDING YOUR CHILD’S MENTAL HEALTH
    Set in the context of real-life inspirational stories of recovery from mental ill-health, we explore how we might help our children to build mentally healthy lives, through reducing the impact of risk factors that might otherwise lead to anxiety, depression or eating disorders. We explore how we might help them to develop protective factors that will reduce the impact of three of the most common risk factors for mental ill-health:
    • Body Dissatisfaction. A psychological state characterised by the negative subjective evaluation of one’s own body (e.g. size, shape, muscularity) with a strong motivation to fit a perceived ideal.
    • Negative Emotionality. A personality trait characterised by a tendency to interpret experiences in a way that produces negative emotions such as sadness, anxiety, fear and anger.
    • Perfectionism. A personality trait characterised by setting oneself unrealistically high standards, and engaging in harsh, negative, self-evaluation with a strong motivation to avoid failure.

  • THROUGH RECOVERY TO RESILIENCE: KEY SKILLS FOR SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD’S RECOVERY FROM MENTAL ILL-HEALTH
    Set in the context of real-life inspirational stories of recovery from mental ill-health, we explore how we might help our child if they are experiencing mental ill-health, to support their recovery journey and rebuilding of a mentally healthy life. Based upon the ‘New Maudsley Method for Skills-based Caring’ (an evidence-based approach, developed at King’s College and the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust) we explore three key skills:
    • ‘Be curious not furious’. This key skill enables us to facilitate positive conversations in which our child can tell their story, express their experience, and gain insight into their thoughts, feelings, and mental health.
    • ‘Be the anchor not the captain’. This key skill enables us to support our child positively, even when they are very resistant to change, or indeed in denial about their mental ill-health.
    • ‘Be a believer and a cheerleader’. This key skill enables us to develop our child’s self-efficacy, by building their confidence in their ability to overcome obstacles on their journey towards a mentally healthy life.

Costs (excl VAT)

  • Online presentations: £350
  • In-person presentations: £950 plus travel

To enquire about availability and to book

Please email: contact@familymentalwealth.com

Keynotes by Nick Pollard BSc (Psych) MBPsS FRSA

Nick Pollard has personal as well as professional knowledge of children’s mental ill-health. He is a director of Family Mental Wealth and co-author of The Oxford Specialist Handbook on Eating Disorders.

Beginning with his personal, inspirational, story of supporting his own daughter (Dr Elizabeth McNaught) through mental ill-health in her teenage years, and drawing upon evidence-based insights from academic/clinical experts, Nick Pollard explores how to build the mental health and wellbeing of our children. This can save considerable costs that would otherwise result from the impact of a child’s mental ill-health upon their parents’ working lives.

Nick includes video contributions from Dr Elizabeth McNaught (his daughter), Dr Joshua Harwood, and Dr Faith Orchard. These are drawn from our government-funded Headway: Parent Toolkit which was developed in collaboration with the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

To enquire about availability and to book

Please email: contact@familymentalwealth.com

Costs vary according to the nature of the event.