This interactive webinar is designed to commemorate Time to Talk Day 2025, focusing on empowering participants to initiate and engage in meaningful conversations about mental health. The session will explore the importance of open dialogue, provide practical strategies for breaking down communication barriers, and equip attendees with tools to support themselves and others in discussing mental health challenges. Participants will gain the confidence and skills needed to foster a more supportive and understanding environment for mental health discussions in their personal and professional lives.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this session, delegates will be able to:
- Identify at least three common barriers to mental health conversations and demonstrate two practical techniques to overcome each barrier
- Feel equipped to be able to initiate at least one conversation about mental health with a colleague, friend, or family member
- Develop a list of 10 open-ended questions that can be used to start supportive mental health conversations, which they will receive as a take-home resource
- Create a personal action plan outlining three specific steps they will take in the next month to promote open mental health discussions in their workplace or community.
About the presenters
Jay Unwin, Lead Trainer
With a decade of experience in health, fitness and wellbeing, plus a former career in science education, Jay is extremely well-placed to simplify ideas which are often considered complex or overwhelming.
After burning out quite catastrophically on two separate occasions, Jay developed a mental and physical fitness philosophy to rebuild the strength of his body and mind, and to avoid slipping back down ever again.
This philosophy is now the cornerstone of what he teaches to leaders and their organisations around the world as part of the MHIB team. In the past he has worked with organisations including Frontier Economics, Christian Aid, the RAC and the University of Southampton.
Jay’s mission is quite simple: to help as many people as possible improve their overall quality of life, through improved mental and physical fitness.
