Sad Blokes Workshop

Sad Blokes Workshop

The number of sad blokes in our society is increasing. Across most ethnic and age groupings men are over-represented in measures of poor mental health including depression and suicide. This is a serious challenge not only for the men but for the families they belong to.

This practical workshop presents an overview of why the increase in depression in men and what factors are contributing to it. Using case studies, research and the experience of the presenter and participants, the workshop will examine how depression shows itself in men and the strategies men often use to manage it. There will be plenty of time in the workshop for participants to share their experiences of supporting men who are depressed and to learn other helpful strategies. The workshop will also examine protective factors that help men stay well and enable them to respond to their depression.

With depression as a major risk factor for suicide, the workshop will examine suicidal behaviour in men and what can be done to support the man in crisis.

• Dates: Thursday 30th June & Friday 1st July 2011
• Time: 9 am to 4.30 pm each day
• Cost: Funded by Uniting Care Mental Health for Carers in the family. Family & Mental Health Program
• Location: Asquith Leagues Club
• Address: 11-37 Alexandria Parade, Waitara
• Facilitator: Barry Taylor
• RSVP: by Friday 17th June 2011 with your name, organisation, email, postal address and contact phone number.

Please email training@ucmh.org.au

or phone Julie on 9689 2860 to register

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Workshop Facilitator: Barry Taylor

Barry has worked in suicide prevention for 24 years at the local, national and international levels including thirteen years in Australia. Barry is known especially for his lecturing, conference presentations and training work in mental health promotion, suicide risk assessment, Postvention and bereavement by suicide, loss and grief, spirituality and men’s well-being. He is currently the Suicide Prevention Co-ordinator at Wairarapa District Health Board and a Researcher at the Social Psychiatry & Population Mental Health Research Unit, University of Otago Wellington. He was a Winston Churchill Fellow in 1990.