Our Next Meeting
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
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Kate Cato, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and
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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."