Keynote Speaking – Support in the Workplace and in Your Community
Canada’s Mental Health Trainer, Yvette Murray will customize an interactive Mental Health support and awareness speaking engagement and deliver on location. Yvette’s down to earth style will keep you engaged, informed and de-mystify common Mental Health fears and stigmas.
You’ll be guided on how to best be there for others and yourselves. We encourage you to utilize Yvette’s experience and encourage participants to ask those questions that may be on their mind in this psychological safe space.
Yvette will help participants recognize common mental health illnesses and problems, increase confidence in providing help to others, and decrease social distance from people with mental health illnesses or problems.
Yvette will also provide you with actionable tips to add to your own Mental Health First Aid kit whether you are at work or at home!
A few suggested topics:
- Mental Health Awareness
- Mental Health in the Workplace
- Mental Health First Aid
- Management Team – Encouraging a Psychologically Safe workplace
- Mental Health Working from Home
- Workplace Burnout Support for Women
- Mental Health Law
- Substance Use
- Suicide Awareness and Crisis Action
- Managing Anxiety and Depression
- Mental Health Resiliency
- Loving someone with a Mental Health Illness
An experienced mental health advocate and influencer, Yvette will create a custom keynote, lunch and learn, or series of sessions to grow awareness of mental health and equip participants with strategies to better understand and address mental health in the workplace and in life. This program will be custom-tailored to the needs and priorities of your organization and participants.
In these times of isolation, economic distress, and public health crisis, it has never been more important to have open, constructive dialogue about mental health in the workplace and community.
Fill out the form below to connect with Yvette and discuss a fully customized mental health awareness program for your company, agency, school, institution, non-profit, or community organization on site, live and in person. Virtual options available here.
Yvette Murray, Mental Health Trainer
About The Instructor
Yvette Murray is a mental health advocate, influencer, and keynote speaker; a psychotherapist; and a facilitator of the Mental Health First Aid Certification. Yvette also offers coaching and training support in Workplace Mental Health Law. A passionate mental health advocate, Yvette loves to travel internationally in person and virtually to deliver keynotes on Mental Health, train Mental Health First Aid certification and Workplace Mental Health Law for non-profit organizations, corporations, government agencies, institutions, corporations, and individuals.
Yvette has taught students employed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Global Affairs Canada, Federal Government, National Defense, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Scotia Trust, MD Trust, Scotia Wealth Management, Ellis Don, Salvation Army, Shepherds of Good Hope, CFIA, UFCW, Loblaws, Starbucks, and Hospitals. Yvette has taught students across a variety of industries, including human resources, insurance, security, retail, law firms, banks, and many other trades.
In addition to her experience as a mental health educator, Yvette is a Body Language Institute (BLI) Certified Instructor. A graduate of the BLI “You Can’t Lie to Me” Train the Trainer program, Yvette is trained and mentored by the Internationally sought after Body Language Expert, Janine Driver, New York Times Best Selling Author and Award-Winning Keynote Speaker, the go-to expert in lie detecting and body language for the media, the FBI, CIA, ATF and the International Chiefs of Police.
Yvette is a seasoned entrepreneur, producing several huge consumer trade shows; hosting world-renowned speakers such as Dr. Mehmet Oz, Jenny McCarthy, Patch Adams, James Redfield, and more. Yvette has the foresight to know what needs to get done, she is always ready and willing to assist. She’s a forward thinker and a visionary who has a wise, down-to-earth relatability to people. A Certified Psychotherapist by trade, Yvette’s vision is to assist people to connect to their authentic self. Yvette is also a LivingWorks Instructor offering certified safeTALK Suicide Alert training, a Certified LivingWorks ASIST Suicide First Aider, certified in safeTALK, and is a Suicide Alert Helper. Yvette is also certified in the Osgoode York University Workplace Mental Health Law.
Yvette is a contributing author to the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Catalyst Magazine and the author of the upcoming book The Mental Health Contagion™️: Navigating Yourself Through a Loved One’s Mental Well-Being Decline.
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