Libby Morley is an Independent Occupational Health Practitioner, Workplace Wellbeing Specialist and experienced trainer in Stress & Mental Health – related topics. She qualified as a Registered General Nurse at Nottingham University Hospital in 1991 and now combines her working knowledge of HR and H&S with evidence-based mental health-related training across many business sectors. She is the owner of Mindshift Consultancy and an Associate Trainer for Mental Health First Aid England, the Princes Trust and Homeless Link. Libby is also a member of the Society of Occupational Medicine and the Royal Society for Public Health.

Libby is passionate about reducing the negative stigmatising attitudes that remain around mental ill-health and a firm believer in workplaces providing a proactive and supportive culture around this subject.

Clive Stevenson is a mental health nurse and has been facilitating Mental Health First Aid courses since 2008. He is approved to deliver the entire range of Adult and Youth MHFA programmes and is also an Associate Tutor with the National Centre for Suicide Prevention Education & Training, delivering SFA: Suicide First Aid, the UK’s National Qualification in Suicide Prevention.

He is a member of the MHFA England Expert Reference Group, consulting on the creation and evaluation of MHFA programmes and delivers Continuing Professional Development events, including courses to approve instructors qualified in MHFA England Two Day products to deliver half, one-day and online products and to refresh instructors who may not have delivered for some time.

Clive has led several successful mental health programmes for the Department of Health and whilst working with the organisation supporting healthcare commissioning in London, developed a new model of care for mental health adopted across the capital. He has lectured in healthcare and transformation for the University of Reading and Middlesex University and co-developed a twinned BSc programme in psychology and nursing with the University of Luton.

Clive is also active as an executive coach, professional mentor and keynote/plenary speaker, and is a consultant in individual, organisational and system change with expertise in process, workforce and system redesign, a Motorola University Chicago awarded 6 Sigma Green Belt and significant experience in facilitating Lean programmes, Appreciative Inquiry and Solution Focused Interventions.

He designs and delivers a range of other programmes relating to personal and organisational mental health and wellbeing including Suicide Awareness & Prevention (adults & young people) and the Open University/Nottingham University Personality Disorder Knowledge & Understanding Framework (KUF).

Kim Stephenson is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist specialising in the psychology and neuroscience of personal finance, financial risk and decision making.

He spent 14 years as an Independent Financial Adviser for commercial organisations including being expatriate tax advisor for private banking and Ultra High Net Worth clients. He qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and, at the first ever sitting of the exams, gained the Diploma in Personal Financial Services.

Kim is consequently the only person in the world qualified and experienced both in finance and psychology.

Annie Callingham is a person-centred psychotherapist, specialising in “Walk & Talk Therapy”.

She has worked in a variety of settings, predominantly in the corporate world in a learning and development capacity, within the retail and logistics sector. She has also worked as a Crisis Help Line volunteer for The Richmond Fellowship and as a counsellor for Quetzal.

Movement of the body, and a shift in environment, can help us to think differently about our lives. Other associated benefits for working outside to support mental health include physical exercise, help with feelings of being “stuck”, anxiety or anger; plus the physical space and headspace that being outside provides, is generally mood-enhancing

Walk & Talk therapy can be especially helpful for people who don’t have the opportunity to get out into nature very often, and those who feel as if they thrive better when they do. It’s also good for those who may feel intimidated by eye-contact or claustrophobic in the environment of a one-on-one session in a room.

Walking together side by side also means that the often hugely valuable silences in therapy are much easier to bear for many people, and client led in terms of pace and route.

Annie is able to reduce physical barriers that can deter some clients accessing therapy such as: those experiencing anxiety or low self-confidence, along with offering ADHD and autistic clients the environment that they know works for them.

She believes that we all have a tendency to put others first, but in doing so, we can sometimes neglect our relationship with ourselves. Counselling can show you a kinder, gentler way to treat the most important person in your life, you.

Russ Magnall is an unshakable optimist who believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together. An experienced Police Commander, Russ is fascinated by people and the things they say and do. He’s studied what works, and what doesn’t, for over thirty years. He knows how the best communicators succeed in any situation, no matter how delicate, destructive or dangerous.

Safe and Sound Training is adaptable to suit different audiences and can be delivered for any organisation, team, group or class. The themes remain the same, what changes is the way in which they are presented. The props, stories, and examples used are always appropriate to the audience demographic and risk assessments are conducted to ensure any safeguarding considerations are met. The course is suitable for young people, frontline staff, supervisors, team leaders, middle managers and senior leader teams in all public and private sector organisations.

Safe and Sound Training equips people with their own individual strategy and is jam packed full of knowledge, skills, tips, tools and techniques to maintain strong mental health and build unshakeable personal resilience and be able respond positively to life’s challenges and thrive, inside and outside the workplace. Safe and Sound Training will help you build a workforce equipped to achieve, where productivity and performance soar and stress, anxiety and days lost through psychological sickness drop.

Russ dedicates his life to sharing his skills, experience and knowledge with others.

Diane Stephenson is a graduate of the renowned Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London and a fully qualified and insured Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and a Registered Nutritionist. She is a member of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine and is registered with the Complementary Natural Healthcare Commission, the UK regulator for complementary healthcare practitioners.

Diane has an extensive knowledge of the nutritional aspects for all matters relating to health and wellbeing, working to understand the underlying causes of problems and not just dealing with the symptoms so improvements are long-term and not a temporary quick fix.

Having been a senior manager for a multinational company she understands the nature of stress and deadlines, eating badly, working late and feeling permanently exhausted.

Her objective is to help people put in place healthy strategies that really fit into their day to day lives.

In addition to seeing individual clients Diane also provides workshops and talks for businesses and works within the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in the Training Clinic supporting third year students develop their clinical skills.

Phil Matthews is a qualified teacher with experience in both primary and secondary schools. Whilst he has a master’s degree in civil engineering and an obvious aptitude for science and maths it was the pastoral side of school life that appealed to him the most. He is empathetic and engages well with all age groups in a manner that is informative, accessible and enjoyable and he consistently receives excellent feedback.

In 2016 Phil qualified as an instructor with Mental Health First Aid, (MHFA) England and subsequently set up his own independent company, Ace Wellbeing Associates Ltd. He delivers quality consultancy and training in educational establishments and a wide range of other settings. He is an associate trainer for MHFA England as well as a regular plenary speaker on their train the trainer programmes.

Phil collaborates regularly with Alpha Wellbeing Associates and has developed a number of packages on internet safety and the impact of cyberbullying on mental health. He regularly delivers a range of assemblies on how to promote wellbeing during stressful periods such as exams for schools and runs various workshops for all ages on mental health.

Phil is a lead teacher for Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning which is the in-county version of the National Healthy Schools Programme. This involves ongoing support for teachers and support staff, governors, parents and pupils to achieve healthy environments and promote positive mental health.