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OUR WORK

Turn to Me has a variety of workshops, programs and presentations targeted at diverse community settings. Each of our carefully designed engagements seek to increase awareness, promote well-being and community safety, reduce stigma and discrimination, normalise support seeking and offering behaviour, contribute to a more emotionally intelligent society and create a movement of “Communities that Care”. 

YOU BELONG, I BELONG. 

Turn to Me’s flagship five-stage program for young people aged 14-18. This interactive workshop breaks down the stigma around mental ill-health and support seeking, equipping participants with vital skills in meaningful conversations, relationships, and self-care. 

Focusing on community and social cohesion, participants establish a "Turn to Me - Community of Care" to foster purpose, belonging, and mutual support, free from judgment, stigma, stereotypes and harmful behaviours. This promotes the act of deeply caring for each other. 

The hands-on intensive workshop series empowers participants to use their collective voice and lived experience to identify community mental health challenges. Collaborating to create prototype social action campaigns that promote well-being and shift conversations around mental-Ill Health. 

Participants leave with increased emotional intelligence, a deeper connection to self and others, tangible support skills, and a renewed sense of purpose and belonging—all critical protective factors against mental ill-health.

CLUB ROOM CONVERSATIONS

Sporting Clubs are the heartbeat of local communities throughout Australia. At their strongest, sporting clubs provide a place of care, belonging, healthy expression and connection for thousands of men, women, young people and families. They bring the community together like no other. 

Club Room Conversations facilitates a space for clubs to explore how they can maximise their presence and role within the local community by creating an environment that promotes mental well-being, raises awareness, and unites to eliminate stigma and behaviours that can negatively affect the mental ill-health of others within the community. 

Club Room Conversations aims to bring the whole club community together into the collective workshop space. Players, coaches, volunteers, officials and families are encouraged to participate, acknowledging all these roles as the fabric of any local sporting club setting.

IGNITE IMPACT KEYNOTE

Turn to Me’s IGNITE IMPACT KEYNOTE is suitable for a diversity of audiences from schools through to corporate spaces and provides a heartfelt, transformational and informative experience for participants. 

Our keynote presenters draw on their storytelling abilities and speak powerfully about their lived experience of Mental Ill-Health and how certain life defining events inspired the creation of Turn to Me.  

This keynote will IGNITE awareness within the participating audience regarding the individual and collective power they hold to IMPACT and contribute to community led prevention in small, yet profound ways, centred around the concept of creating "communities of care".

We will interactively workshop with the participating audience to explore critical protective factors, such as meaningful relationships, offsetting isolation, raising awareness, eliminating stigmas, gaining emotional intelligence insights and strengthening approaches to seeking and offering support among peers.

Those in attendance will leave this keynote experience with a sense of inspiration and hope in their hearts, facilitating a turning point in their understanding towards the reality of Mental Ill-Health and a deeper purpose to contribute to changing the narrative.

MAN DOWN

Approximately seven men die by suicide in Australia every day, accounting for 75% of all suicides. It is the leading cause of death for men aged 15-44. Evidence indicates that men are far less likely to seek help for Mental Health.

These statistics point to a deeply rooted construct that has masked and limited men's potential to reach their most authentic selves for generations. Toxic Masculinity. A result of how men have been culturally trained and socially pressured to behave. For too long, society has taught young boys and men to “toughen up” or “suck it up” when hurt or facing challenges. 

This “man up” attitude matures into a rejection of empathy toward self and others, repackaging more emotionally caring, loving and naturally feminine impulses as “weak.” Toxic Masculinity opposes the promotion of Positive Mental Health even emotionally struggling. 

For men, this often involves ignoring pain while pushing themselves to the absolute limit in other areas of their lives. Suppressing mental health issues like depression, trauma, and anxiety or emotions such as sadness, anger, fear or guilt, can worsen symptoms and lead to isolation, job or friend loss, and even suicide. We are programmed to ignore asking for help because it shows fragility and provokes ridicule.

This workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to explore specific challenges and barriers men encounter regarding their health and well-being. It will interactively support men in developing a toolkit of skills, strategies and perspectives that inspire a shift in how they approach everyday health, well-being and self-care, and foster a conscious awareness of how toxic masculinity acts as a barrier to this.

This workshop will strengthen the emotional intelligence of men and encourage healthier relationships with themselves, environments and those around them in their lives. Creating a safe-space for men to “Man Down” and find relief from society's unrealistic expectations and pressures they have experienced for too long.

SCHOOL WELL-BEING FUN DAY

Strength-based encounters that educate young people about mental ill-health, build their emotional intelligence capacity, strengthen resilience, reframe their relationship with self-care and unite communities of young people to eliminate unhealthy stereotypes, stigma and social behaviours that can lead to poor experiences of mental ill-health are critical in the generational prevention narrative.

Turn To Me has designed a School Well-Being Fun Day that facilitates impactful learning and capacity building opportunities in the above area's for students in a highly engaging, fun and immersive way.  Suitable for secondary school students in years 7-12, our memorable well-being fun days use a rotational format and consist of creative activities such as:

  • Mocha Check In - Role play activities where students “mock” scenarios that strengthen their capacity to normalise help / support seeking conversations and actions with friends and peers in a fun and engaging way. 

  • Stigma Pinata - An activity where participants identity, workshop and explore  all of the unhealthy stigmas and stereotypes attached to Mental Ill-Health. Before uniting as one to smash, yes literally smash, stigma away from their school community in our “Stigma Pinata” rotation. 

  • Mindfulness Madness - Mindfulness, deep breathing and moments of self-reflection are important self-care practices. This rotation facilitates a space for students to develop the ability to and realise the importance of slowing down, grounding themselves and connecting inwards to their own thoughts, feelings and personal needs. 

  • Theatre of Emotions - Higher levels of Emotional Intelligence is critical for our young people in the society that we live in today. The ability to manage, make sense of and process felt emotions in a healthy and safe way can be life saving. In this rotation students will transform their relationships with different emotional states by experimenting healthy and unhealthily, modes of expression. Students will leave this rotation with greater resilience and emotional control. 

  • Campaign Crazy - Turn to Me believes strongly in the voices of our young people when it comes to creating solutions to issues and challenges that negatively impact themselves, their communities and their livelihoods. This rotation is about embedding power, strength and confidence within the participating group of young people, in realising that their voice and opinion matter and are valued. Here students will have the space to share things that are important to them, particularly in the context of their Mental Health and Well-Being. As well as developing a message of strength, love and hope that they would like to share with the broader community. 

  • Sweat ‘n’ Chat - Physical Activity plays an important role in our holistic health and wellbeing. It can also provide a platform to facilitate and encourage meaningful and important conversations around self care and one's experience of Mental Health.  This rotation will combine movement, working up a sweat and holding meaningful conversations with peers! 

  • Community of Care - In this rotation students will workshop and construct their very own Community of Care to honour and uphold. A concept central to Turn to Me’s Work. This is about the students themselves leading the creation of an environment within their school that promotes wellbeing, embraces love and care and unites to eliminate stigma and behaviours that negatively affect health, wellbeing and experience of others. 

  • Aboriginal Wellbeing Methods - Turn to Me believes that the modern society has a lot to learn from a culture that has survived sustainably, healthy and well for over 80,000 years. This rotation will interactively explore First Nations Well-Being Values, Practices and Methodologies that participants can embrace in their own lives today.

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