Talks
Jo has given talks at various events, schools, universities, conferences, and workplaces. In her talks, Jo shares her journey through mental illness using her own experiences to stop the stigma as well as offering practical tips for maintaining good mental health and hope that recovery is possible. Her talks are always followed by a Question & Answer session.
Topics Jo covers:
Keynote: Jo shares her own experience of mental illness and recovery. She shares strategies and exercises to help the audience feel empowered to ask for help, to see the positives in the negatives and build up their own toolbox of wellbeing strategies.
Jo offers the following talks and workshops to businesses: Jo’s Mental Health training for businesses focuses on how to talk about mental health, how to effectively signpost those who need help to appropriate support and how to deal with a mental health crisis. She also offer various workshops including: The Art of Work-life Balance workshop, How to Avoid Burnout, Juggling Social medias as a SME, Managing your Mental Health at Work.
Jo offers the following talks to schools/universities: Managing social media/digital footprint workshops (secondary school), What is mental health & how to ask for help workshops (all ages), Naked beach - Body Image Workshops (years 7-9, and years 10-sixth form), Why Kindness Matters (for primary school), Living Away From Home (Sixth Form/University Preparation/University).
Jo also speaks reguLarly on maternal mental health, overcoming stigma, life after suicide and Living With…Anxiety, Postnatal Depression, Depression, Dermatillomania (skin picking disorder in the OCD ‘Family”)
