Mind Matters Intitiative Campfire Chat: Online communities and beating isolation

Join the MMI Team and our amazing 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 our guests’ experiences of navigating life and work during Covid-19.

How can we remain connected in a time of necessary separation? For our first Campfire Chat we are delighted to welcome a few familiar faces to discuss their experiences and challenges in fostering togetherness, celebrating community and beating isolation.

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Panel Guests

Joining us for our Campfire chat, we are pleased to confirm our panel guests will be:

Ben Sweeney MRCVS

Ben qualified from Liverpool vet school in 2008 and pursued an equine career until a shift to companion animal medicine in 2013.

In 2015 he started locuming and set up Simply Locums in 2016. He has hosted webinars, podcasts and interviews with Webinar Vet, reaching a wide audience from across the veterinary professions.

Ebony Escalona MRCVS

Ebony is a GP equine vet, vetmed educator, and mentor. She focuses on unlocking people’s potential and building confidence in others through her advisory positions with the Veterinary Defence Society Training team and veterinary congresses.

She is the founder of the global online support platform Vets: Stay, Go or Diversify bringing over 12,000 members together for peer to peer inspiration for career pathways within and beyond the profession. She became fascinated with the power of social media as a communication tool and has helped other businesses and charities harness this channel of communication.

Ebony is also on the executive board of StreetVet and a visiting lecturer at Surrey University. Ebony was the recipient of the inaugural RCVS Inspiration Award.

Jane Davidson RVN

Jane is a Kent based vet nurse, writer and educator who writes to educate and support vets, vet nurses and pet owners.

Currently she is undertaking a PhD on the effects of the original veterinary legislation. She has moved up the coast and is doing her #PhDbytheSea

She is the most popular blogger/vlogger in her industry and runs the award winning online community #planetrvn

Programme timings and information

7:00 - 8:00pm

The interactive session will be held online, via Zoom, and there are a maximum of 50 places available.

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 relating to either of these workshops, please email the RCVS Events Team