MMI: Work, Mental Health and Mood Webinar

Are you interested in learning more about the science of a range of mood disorders such as depression, bipolar and PMDD, their impact on mental health, wellbeing and performance, and what we can do to support ourselves and each other in veterinary workplaces?

Join the RCVS Mind Matters team, alongside Clinical Psychologist Dr Marco Vivolo, James Glass MRCVS, Emma Sadler RVN, and others, for this free online webinar which offers a chance to pause, reflect and learn from each other’s experiences of navigating life, work and mental health.

The webinar will coincide with World Bipolar Day, where MMI will also launch a new ‘Let’s talk bipolar’ guide and a collection of lived experience insight blogs.

Learning Objectives: 

• Recognise a range of mood/affective disorders, and their impact on mental health, wellbeing and work performance.
• Reflect on your role as a colleague/manager/leader and consider how you can support those with mood/affective disorders to thrive in their roles within the veterinary community, reduce stigma and challenge discrimination.
• Select appropriate sources of help and support to signpost colleagues to at work.

Speakers 

• Angharad Belcher, RCVS Director of Advancement of the Professions, and Mind Matters (Panel Chair) 

Angharad is both the RCVS Director for Advancement of the Professions, and the Mind Matters Initiative. She recognises the inter-connectedness of all areas of animal health and the different impacts that this has on veterinary professionals’ wellbeing. Since joining MMI she has tried to bring the community together to increase opportunities for discussion on a wide range of issues, from menopause and climate change anxiety, to grief and chronic health, to name a few. Angharad and her team aim to ensure that important topics are always viewed from an intersectional perspective, making space for lesser heard voices, and with an evidence base where possible.

• Dr Marco Vivolo, Clinical Psychologist

Bio coming soon.

• James Glass MRCVS, Expert by Experience

James qualified from the Royal Veterinary College in 1992 and worked in clinical practice until 2019. In 2022 he completed an MSc in the neuroscience and psychology of mental health, with a dissertation on the shame and stigma around disclosing mental ill-health in the veterinary field. He is currently a researcher at the Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab at the University of Glasgow, where his PhD explores suicide risk among veterinary professionals, considering ways to reduce suicide risk among vets, RVNs, and students. James has significant lived experience of long-term depression and suicidality.

• Emma Sadler RVN, Expert by Experience

Bio coming soon.

• Further panellist speaker to be announced 

Who this is for

The webinar is open to all within the veterinary community. 

Registration 

For more information and to book your place on the course, please use the link below. 

Register here 

Enquiries 

To cancel your place, please contact the RCVS Events team. If you have any queries about the webinar content or other MMI related activity, please contact the MMI team.