Tuesday, 7th February 2012
Part 1: "Mental Health in the workplace"
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Freehills - Level 38, MLC Centre, Martin Place, Sydney
We will have Fay Kolhagen who is the NSW/ACT Manager of GROW speak on their organisation and "Strategies for maintaining your mental health in the workplace". http://www.grow.net.au/
From Blake Dawson
Kate Cato, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and
Nicola Atkinson Head of Learning and Development.
Blake Dawson will speak about its involvement in the award winning initiative Resilience@law, with screenings from a DVD that has been created about mental health in the legal profession.
Resilience@law is a collaboration between five major national law firms: Allens Arthur Robinson, Blake Dawson, Clayton Utz, Freehills and Mallesons and The College of Law to take a leadership role in raising awareness and understanding of the nature and impact of stress, depression and anxiety across the legal profession.
The aim is to make a lasting contribution by developing a learning approach for people at each stage of their legal careers – from graduate lawyers through to partners.
Over the last 18 months Resilience@law has become a mandatory pre-admission program for all new lawyers and is being used by law firms, in-house legal teams and regulatory bodies across Australia.
The impact of the initiative was recently recognised outside the legal profession with a national AHRI Award at the peak body's annual awards event in Melbourne."