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MMI Campfire Chat: The Joy of Creativity

MMI campfire

Date: Monday 21st March 2022

Opening times: 7:00 - 8:00pm

Venue: Online - Zoom

Details

The MMI Campfire chats are back for series three! Join the MMI Team and our fantastic guests for an informal delve into themes and topics that matter to the veterinary community. Open to all, these free online panel sessions offer a chance to pause, reflect and learn from each other’s experiences of navigating life and work.

The Joy of Creativity

In this MMI Campfire Chat...

Creativity is everywhere. It’s what makes life interesting, what keeps us all moving forward, and provides an invaluable source of escapism. But how can creativity be used to help support our mental wellbeing? Are we all creative? And why is creativity so important?

Join us on 21 March, as we explore The Joy of Creativity.

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Panel Guests 

Silvia Janská

Silvia obtained a BSc in Veterinary Science and a MSc in Wild Animal Biology prior to graduation with a vet degree from RVC in 2014. Throughout her 8-year education at the RVC, she also worked in their e-Media department on various projects that enhanced student learning. After graduating, Silvia completed an equine internship and a Certificate in Veterinary Business Management at Liverpool University. Her portfolio career spans between working as an ambulatory equine vet, consulting for animal health startups, and helping the veterinary profession better understand flexible working opportunities by co-founding the Flexee initiative. Silvia is also a board member of the Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons and a member of VetSustain’s Greener Veterinary Practice Group.

Olivia Ogińska

Liv graduated in 2016 from the university Poland and shortly after graduation moved to the United Kingdom to undergo surgical training. During her career development, Liv was exposed to various workplace environments and worked with veterinary professionals of diverse backgrounds, cultures and nationalities.

Along the years of her professional training, Liv has been mentoring and providing mental health support to her colleagues. The passion for veterinary wellbeing led her to undertaking the Masters degree programme in Applied Positive Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University, UK, where Liv received the life-coaching and appreciative inquiry training credentials.

Based on several years of veterinary and peer-support experience, combined with Positive Psychology training, Liv created the Vet Gone Real platform, through which multiple individuals and veterinary teams receive coaching and mental support. Liv is deeply passionate about the veterinary workplace wellbeing, emotional intelligence, psychological safety and creating tools that help veterinary practitioners to thrive in their career and personal life.

Liv presented her innovative approach to building human-friendly veterinary workplaces on the international congresses and she puts her teachings into practice through serving veterinary teams as their Clinical Wellbeing Coach. She is also a certified workplace conflict mediator.

Dr Jo Talbot Bowen

Dr Jo Talbot Bowen is dual trained as a medical doctor and a Fine Artist and has BA(1st) in Fine Art and a Masters degree in Philosophy. Her chosen art medium is now verre eglomise (gold on glass) and she also loves making prints and collage. She has exhibited widely and now lives and works by the sea in Devon.

Jo has worked as a psychiatrist in the NHS and privately founding her therapy clinic in 2015 to specialise in helping doctors and other healthcare professionals with anxiety and psychological trauma. Jo believes that empowerment through our creativity is a cornerstone of our health.

Grace Oldham RVN

Grace has always had a passion for animals and decided she wanted to be a veterinary nurse when she was five years old. After completing an animal management qualification, she took a break to gain a dog grooming qualification before circling back around to veterinary nursing. She is now an anaesthesia nurse in an up and coming referral centre. Throughout her veterinary nursing she has always taken a large interest in the impact of the industry on the mental wellness of her team. Grace became a qualified mental health first aider so that she could support her team to the best of her ability. Along this road, Grace discovered how creativity can impact mental health in a positive way.

Grace treats hobbies like hobnobs, she can’t just have one! Currently, she makes clay earrings by the sea. Grace sees creativity, not only as a form of expression, but a way to calm a busy mind and as a form of self-care. She encourages others to try any and all crafts, there’s one out there for everyone.

Programme timings and information

7:00 - 8:00pm

The interactive session will be held online, via Zoom.

This event counts towards your CPD.

Cost

There is no charge to attend this event.

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Contact us

Should you have any questions, please email the RCVS Events Team.

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