College to chair International Virtual Congress session on mental health

We will be taking part in The Webinar Vet’s International Virtual Congress on 20 January 2017 from 7-9pm.

Neil Smith, RCVS Council member and Chair of our Mind Matters Initiative, will chair a series of talks focusing on resilience and stress reduction, which will be free to join.

We launched the Mind Matters Initiative to increase the accessibility and acceptance of mental health support, and encourage a culture that better equips individuals to talk about and deal with stress and related issues.

The session comprises three talks: ‘Managing work stress in veterinary practice’ with Dr Elinor O’Connor, Senior Lecturer in Occupational Psychology at the University of Manchester; ‘Veterinary resilience, more good days than bad’ with Dr Jenny Moffett, Managing Director of SkillsTree Ltd; and ‘An introduction to mindfulness’ with Dr Mike Scanlan, Director of Kind Minds Health.

This is the second year that the Mind Matters Initiative has been involved with the International Virtual Congress, chairing a ‘happiness symposium’ at last year’s Congress for which over 700 people tuned in.

Register now for the stream on The Webinar Vet website.