Wellbeing Workshops

BrainSweet Wellbeing workshops are all about helping you to help yourself

BrainSweet Wellbeing workshop – 2.5 hours Onsite

Mental health workshop
IMAGE: From the exhibition 'Putting the pieces of the self together one moment at a time' by Vanessa Beetham and Peter Blenkiron. Featured Portraits by Daniel Butterworth. Dax Centre 2018.

Target Audience: Everyone. Ideal for workplaces wanting to bring something fresh and different into their wellbeing strategies. This  workshop introduces participants  to evidence based strategies that will help them maintain optimum psychological wellbeing so that they can continue to achieve at work and play.
Duration: 2.5 hours (including 15 minute break)
Location: At your venue
Cost: $3,500 plus GST (excludes accommodation and travel outside Melbourne Metro)

This hands on, experiential workshop is a positive, empowering few hours where participants learn how they can proactively influence their psychological wellbeing. The key message is that responsibility for your wellbeing begins with YOU.

Interwoven into her own history with depression, Clare introduces some key concepts from neuro-science to help participants understand the important role our brain plays in our well-being. With those concepts as a basis, she then shares five simple strategies that can help everyone enhance their well-being.

The workshop is both evidence based (referring to neuro-scientific research) AND experiential – participants get to practice some of the strategies there and then in the session.

Far from being sombre, the workshop is empowering, positive and fun. Participants are challenged to take ownership of their mental wellbeing. “Nurture your brain, benefit your wellbeing”.

Flourish program – 4 x half day sessions

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IMAGE: From the exhibition 'Putting the pieces of the self together one moment at a time' by Vanessa Beetham and Peter Blenkiron. Featured Portraits by Daniel Butterworth. Dax Centre 2018.

Target Audience: Offered in workplace settings, Flourish is an ideal program for organisations that are genuinely committed to enhancing the psychological wellbeing of their employees in a meaningful, sustainable way.  
Duration:
Four x 3.5 hour workshops, held across 4 consecutive weeks (also available fortnightly across 8 weeks)
Location:
Onsite at your venue. Only available face to face.
Cost: $15,000 plus GST per program.

The Flourish program encourages participants to take ownership of their own mental wellbeing. Whilst workplaces do all they can to create a supportive and safe environment, ultimately it is the individual who can most powerfully affect their own psychological wellbeing.  This series of workshops helps participants understand WHY the brain/mental wellbeing connection is so powerful, and teaches them HOW to positively influence their own mental wellbeing.

  • Learn strategies to move from languishing (feeling stuck and underwhelmed with life) to flourishing
  • Learn why being happy all the time is not realistic or sustainable – psychological wellbeing is a far more meaningful goal
  • Understand the role of the brain in mental wellbeing and contentment – why does the grass always look greener elsewhere?
  • Understand the six dimensions of psychological wellbeing and apply them in your life
  • Understand how (and why) your physiology, thoughts (cognition), feelings (affective) and behaviours ALL affect your wellbeing
  • Apply 16 practical, evidence based strategies (physiological, cognitive, affective and behavioural) to improve your mental wellbeing.

Mental Health Speaker

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IMAGE: From the exhibition 'Putting the pieces of the self together one moment at a time' by Vanessa Beetham and Peter Blenkiron. Featured Portraits by Daniel Butterworth. Dax Centre 2018.

Target Audience: Everyone. Usually given at corporate events ie breakfast/lunch/dinner. Ideal to coincide with national and/or global initiatives ie Mental Health Week, World Mental Health Day, International Women’s Day.
Duration: 45 minutes plus question/discussion time
Location: At your venue
Cost: $2400 plus GST (excludes accommodation and travel outside Melbourne metro)

Compelling, insightful and at times confronting, Clare is an incredible wellbeing speaker.  She cuts through the misconceptions and assumptions by sharing her own story of managing depression on and off since she was 17 years old.

In the first half of the talk she explains with sensitivity, honesty and intelligence what it ‘feels like’ to be depressed. Listeners learn that whilst depression is characterised by deep sadness, hopelessness and despair, it impacts so much more than your emotional state. Clare gives striking examples of how her cognitive abilities and physical health have been severely compromised during periods of deep depression.

In the second half of the talk, Clare explains with confronting honesty the moment she realised medication alone was not going to save her. She then shares the many strategies – most backed by neuro-scientific research –she now uses to reverse the downward spiral into depression before it becomes unmanageable. These strategies are tangible, simple, and relevant to everyone who needs to take care of their psychological well-being and learn how to ‘get off the bus’ to Rock Bottom.

Contact Clare now if you need a compelling and inspirational wellbeing speaker for your workplace event.

Our Testimonials

  • Clare, thankyou so much for such a frank and positive session. You have answered so many of my thoughts. I thought I was adrift on my own island.

    Marilyn 62, retired
  • A fantastic session Clare. I’m sure I got more out of the 3 hours with you than the last 12 months with a psychologist! I loved your honesty and normalisation of depression and all the challenges the accompany trying to function in society. I would say your session is a must do for both sufferers and carers of those with depression.

    Ruth
  • Brilliant workshop. So many tips, great advice & a whole lot of new learning about the brain! Absolutely love your delivery style. Thanks

  • Absolutely wonderful! I was so engaged and left with so many valuable strategies to implement in my life. Your delivery was so fun and enjoyable, took so much away.

    Nicole
  • Loved it! So thorough and engaging. Tomorrow, when it’s sunny, I’m going to stand barefoot in the garden bed, in a power pose, singing my lungs out whilst eating chocolate and laughing at myself. Then I’m going to hug my family, tell them how grateful I am for them then go for a nap. BrainSweet Sunday!

    Lisa Teacher
  • I just loved today and have come away with so much knowledge. Very useful with so many practical tips – and your presentation was captivating

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