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Keeping Sane - Being a Support Worker During the Covid 19 Crisis

When everyone is being told to stay at home during the crisis, support workers are providing essential services are told to go to work. Times are stressful. Clients are stressed. How do you Keep Sane during this very tricky time?

This 60 minute relaxed presentation answers this question.

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Agenda
  • Acknowledging the current state of play for workers – i.e. I need to pay my bills but I am putting myself and family at risk (The snow cone effect)
  • Understanding stress, fear, anxiety and anxiety disorders – how to keep your mental health when working with stressed clients
  • Self-care including ‘being present with the client’ (how this helps reduce your anxiety), pausing between jobs (how to I do this and how can it help), the need for rest of body, mind (cognitive) and spirit (how do I do this and why?)
Presenter
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Deb Reveley
Deb Reveley is the CEO and principal driver of Brain Ambulance Pty Ltd, a business she started 16 years ago to deliver mental health education from the lived experience. She has endured mental health problems since she was 25 and at 32 became house bound for 2 years with agoraphobia.

Deb became a CALM and CALM Care trainer when she realised this was the exact type of conversation she wished someone would have had with her when she was experiencing episodes of suicidal thought.

Deb is a Master instructor of Mental Health First Aid and won the Inaugural Instructor champion Award for MHFA Australia. She is a huge advocate for recovery and the brand new challenges that brings with it.

Deb’s keynote talks shamelessly expose how she loves her mental health life experience and the fun she has with it in breaking the stigma of mental health. Her honest and funny reflections of living with a mental illness will captivate your audience. She is so passionate about mental wellness and recovery she actually trademarked Keeping Sane’® Deb is often referred to as a ‘healed human’.

A great storyteller, Deb gives your audience permission to utter the phrase “Keeping Sane®” and will impress.
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