Care for You this Mental Health Week

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A free, online bite-sized lunch, connect and learn mini-series for healthcare workers this Mental Health Week.

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Workshops & Professional Learning

12.30 - 1pm AEDT

9 Oct 2023 - 13 Oct 2023

Zoom online

No cost - just bring your lunch and join us online!

Register for the 5-part series here

In keeping with the theme for this year's Mental Health Week, 'Awareness, belonging, connection', Tempo is offering a free, online, bite-sized lunch, connect and learn mini-series for all healthcare workers.

You are warmly invited to join us live!

Bring your lunch, and enjoy:

  • some easy-to-digest learning
  • time for reflection
  • invitations to connect and
  • develop new skills to support your sustainable career.

If you are unable to join us live, recordings will be available.

Welcome!

I'm so pleased to have you here.

And I'd love for you to join me in taking a little time out at lunchtime during this year's Mental Health Week.

I'm Minky van der Walt (she/her): a registered clinician with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA), and the Australian Music Therapy Association.

Within PACFA, I am a clinical member (#26483), an Accredited Mental Health Practitioner and a PACFA Accredited Supervisor.

As a trauma therapist, I have expertise in chronic stress and post-traumatic mental health.

In addition to 23 years of clinical experience across a range of medical, education and community settings, I offer supports based in trauma-specific practice (including Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, and Internal Family Systems Therapy approaches), music, creative arts and somatic processes, as well more traditional talk-focused approaches.

I am passionate about supporting health professionals to thrive in their work through a process of clarity, connection, compassion, creativity and community.

I want to help you to get out of your head and into your body, to get your mojo back and to find a pathway back to feeling like you again.

For detail on each bite-sized session and to register for individual days only, please see below.

Join us daily, Monday 9 - Friday 13 October 12.30 - 1pm, AEDT.

Why self care is not enough for healthcare workers

Why can self care be problematic in healthcare?

And what can we do about it?

Join us to unpack the need to turn away from an individualised focus on 'self care' and look for a collective approach to sustainability in healthcare work.

Through a polyvagal lens: 3 organising principles supporting your nervous system

Going beyond your ‘self care list’ to meet your needs directly.

Join us to look at the three organising principles of polyvagal theory and discover new ways to support your needs on-the-go.

How to get out of your head and into your body!

Learn about the importance of healthy embodiment and how to reconnect with yourself through movement, postures and the felt sense.

Join us in a discovery of embodied connection as we explore a range of somatic resources and supports for healthcare workers.

Creative arts and music to bypass thinking and access support

We all know what we should be doing to support ourselves.

But when we’re on the hamster wheel of stress and overwhelm we get stuck.

Join us to find out how therapeutic creative arts and music can provide you with an on-the-go toolkit for best support.


Deep listening: a musical holding space

Let go of everything for half an hour and let someone else hold the space.

Be guided into a world of nourishment and deep listening through a supported music and imagery experience.

No skills required.



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Register for the 5-part series here

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