About this Event
THIS is what modern Workplace Health + Wellbeing looks like:
- Data led
- Employee driven
- Grounded in the realities of the organisation
Our one-day conference brings you the highest calibre of Keynote Speakers, with professional and practical guidance from 30 Exhibitors on how to improve your workplace health and wellbeing.
PROFESSIONAL, PRACTICAL and NO FLUFF!
This day is . . . Your Guide to Deliver Positive Change.
Full Day Delegate (Cost £125 + Eventbrite Booking Fee) includes:
Admission to 2 Keynote sessions and Exhibitors’ Presentations
All-day admission to Exhibition Hall
Morning refreshments
Light lunch
[Note: the hotel has extensive, free parking and excellent free wifi.]
The provisional schedule for the day is:
8.30 onwards: Registration
Networking and visit Exhibition Hall
9.30 Beyond Policies: Creating Trauma-Responsive Workplaces That Work
Keynote Speaker: Vivian McKinnon (EPIONE)
Trauma is no longer just a clinical term - it’s a workplace reality. Unresolved stress, overwhelm, and dysregulation quietly erode staff culture, increase absence, and reduce productivity across every sector. Behaviours often labelled as 'performance issues' are frequently nervous system responses, not personal failings. When organisations don’t recognise this, the cost is high: burnout, conflict, disengagement, and turnover.
Vivian McKinnon, Trauma Therapist and Ireland Associate for EPIONE Training and Consultancy, presents an empowering session on how trauma shows up in teams and how organisations can respond with compassion, clarity, and effectiveness. This talk introduces EPIONE’s evidence-based trauma-informed framework, offering leaders a practical pathway to build safer, healthier, and more resilient workplaces.
You’ll learn why trauma-informed practice is rapidly becoming a strategic priority for statutory, corporate, and community organisations - and how adopting it can transform culture, strengthen communication, reduce absence, and unlock staff performance.
This session is ideal for senior leaders, HR professionals, wellbeing leads, and heads of training who want to invest in a workforce that feels valued, supported, and capable of thriving.
10.15 Mid-Morning Refreshments Break
Networking and visit Exhibition Hall
11.30 Change The Way You Think - and That Changes Everything
Keynote Speaker: Helen Quinn (Positive Intelligence)
Did you know you have ten ‘negative voices’ in your head? We call them Saboteurs. They generate stress and affect your wellbeing, performance and relationships.
Positive Intelligence teaches practical, effective ways to tame your saboteurs so you can show up at your best, in work and in life.
This session offers a powerful introduction to Positive Intelligence, including:
- What Positive Intelligence is, how it works, and why it is so effective
- How to identify the saboteurs that trigger stress
- The impact these saboteurs have on your work, life and relationships
- Simple, practical techniques to tame your saboteurs
- How managing saboteurs boosts positivity, productivity and resilience and helps to create lasting change
- Practical applications for work and everyday life
It may sometimes feel like your Saboteurs are running the show, but the truth is you are the one with the power. Once you decide to manage them, you can change the way you think - and that changes everything.
12.30 LUNCH
Light lunch, Networking and visit Exhibition Hall
2.00 Exhibitors’ Presentations
Programme to be announced
3.00 CLOSE
What attendees said about our 2025 event:
I found the day to be excellent. The mix of exhibitors, seminars and networking worked really well. The speakers were engaging, informative and timed well.
M.B.
I really enjoyed the event. The main speaker talks were great and very informative. I took a lot away from their presentations. There was a good variety of exhibitors, the venue was a great location, well laid out and very clean. The hotel staff were great and the catering was good. The M&S spot prizes were a great idea and very well received by all.
E.M.
I found the event brilliant and most interesting. We were able to take a lot from it that can help us start to implement a better wellbeing set up at our workplace.
I felt the set up was great and I enjoyed the talks, the break off talks and the exhibition, and the way it was programmed was fantastic as it meant you could pick and choose what was relevant to you.
The venue was great, food great.
A.P.
I thoroughly enjoyed the day. There was a good range of topics covered and I made some new contacts which I feel will be beneficial within our workplace.
L.P.
A very well run event with a great selection of brands displaying their products.
Thank you and I hope to attend more like this again
D.F.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Vivian McKinnon (EPIONE / Hydro-ease)
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Vivian is Ireland’s first floatation specialist and the owner/founder of Hydro-ease, NI’s premier dedicated floatation centre. Vivian has taken to stages globally to share her passion and enthusiasm for this deeply profound way of healing and her wisdom around human experience.
But, it’s Vivian’s back story that really sets her apart: from abuse to empowerment, from benefits to entrepreneur and from the streets to a TED talk, Vivian’s vulnerability, authenticity and life’s lessons leave you wanting more.
As a highly skilled and experienced trauma therapist Vivian uses her lived experience, research and endless training and education in approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Clinical Hypnosis, Havening, Brianspotting, and Compassionate Inquiry (to name a few) to guide and support others to discover their truth.
Her engaging and inspirational presence draws you inside your own skin to recognise and release the magic within.
Helen Quinn ACC, CPQC (Positive Intelligence)
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The first Certified Positive Intelligence Coach in Northern Ireland, Helen specialises in teaching individuals and teams how to improve their mental fitness.
With over 25 years of experience in education, guidance, mental health and wellbeing roles, Helen is passionate about empowering people to unlock their full potential and create positive, lasting changes in work and in life.
This event is organised by:
Paul Scott Event Management
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Stormont Hotel Belfast, 587 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, United Kingdom
GBP 136.14
