2022 EXPO RECORDINGS

In 2022, we took the Mental Health and Wellbeing Expo online and hosted a huge range of talks, workshops, activities and entertainment, as well as stalls from organisations across the health and wellbeing sector, and opportunities to virtually meet other Canberrans.

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If you didn't manage to make it to the Expo, or you want to re-watch a session, you can find a range of videos and resources below.

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Presentations

• Caring for Carers, by Carers ACT

• Learning from our lived experience, by Terri Warner

• Planning for wellbeing and safety, by Dr Elizabeth Moore, Coordinator General of the ACT Office for Mental Health and Wellbeing

• Shopping for your mental health toolkit, by Dave Segal

• Supporting connections for people with chronic conditions, by Canberra Health Services

• Why Not Kumbayah, by Tammie Horton of the Phynix Initiative

• Woden Community Services’ mental health programs, by Woden Community Services.

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Workshops

• An introduction to sex, gender and sexuality

• Art therapy workshop

• Beth’s Pie: preparing for & responding to stress & uncertainty

• Mindmap for youth mental health (videos one and two)

• Mood Food Workshop

• Q&A: Volunteering with Mental Illness Education ACT

• Stress Better

• Supporting transgender, intersex, gender-diverse and intersex affirming care​​

• The value of informal peer support

• Understanding the NDIS​.

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Entertainment

• Guitar by Duncan n Sargeant

• Music by Jouleus

• Poetry by Cat.

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Interviews

• Mental Health Conversations with Dr Elizabeth Moore, Coordinator General of the ACT Office for Mental Health and Wellbeing:

  • With Hugh Mackay

  • With Jenni Shoring

  • With Anup Pereira

  • With Dr Brad Shrimpton and Fahmida Suma (MIEACT)

  • With Dr Tanya Robertson

  • With C Moore

  • With Annette Vickery

• Mental Health Month ACT Community Ambassadors

• Mental Health Month ACT Supporters

• MIEACT volunteers’ stories.

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Activities

• Well & Wise by MIEACT​

• Exercises for grounding and self-awareness by young people at headspace

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Resources from our exhibitors

• A Gender Agenda:

  • Where to start: Gender questioning children

  • Where to start: Parenting intersex children

  • Where to start: Gender diversity

  • Where to start: Intersex

  • Where to start: Transgender

  • Guidance to support gender-affirming care for mental health

• Community Health Services 

  • Podiatry

  • Social work

  • Nursing

  • Eat Healthy Live Healthy

  • GLAD

  • Occupational Therapy

  • Take Control Live Well

• Mental Health Foundation

  • Reconxted

• Phynix Initiative

  • Drumming workshop

  • Mental Health coaches and peer support

  • Motivation map

  • Personal resilience

  • Resilience first aid

  • Mental Health first aid

  • Youth Mental Health first aid

• Vinnies

  • Compeer program

• Volunteering ACT

  • Inclusive volunteering pathways to employment

  • Complaint resolution guide

  • Emergency and food relief

  • Free meal, laundry, shower and accommodation

  • Legal services

  • Op shops guide

  • Volunteering in the ACT.