The Honest Conversation: How to Really Support Your Team's Mental Health

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In today’s fast-paced and high-pressure work environments, the wellbeing of your team has never been more important. This session explores how open, compassionate conversations can create safer, more supportive workplaces and why equipping people with the confidence to speak about difficult topics is critical.

The session also shines a light on the importance of embracing neurodiversity and supporting women in the workplace, recognising the unique challenges they may face and the value they bring to organisational culture and performance. Through inclusive dialogue, we aim to foster greater understanding, equity, and belonging across all teams.

Featuring a panel of three expert voices in this field, this event offers a unique opportunity to ask questions, share perspectives, and engage in honest, meaningful conversation in a safe and supportive environment. Meet the speakers:

Jess Rad is a National award-winning speaker and founder of The WomenHood and NeuroCurious. Winner of the 2024 National Diversity Award for Gender and recognised by The People's Honours 2025, she is a late-identified neurodivergent woman and Solo Mama navigating premature menopause, getting outspoken about the unspoken to create gender harmony.

The WomenHood partners with organisations to advance gender equity across women's health, financial wellness, neurodiversity, and relationships through impactful talks, workshops, and programmes. NeuroCurious creates spaces where individuals and organisations celebrate neurodiversity and foster allyship.

As an Ambassador for SEND charity Amaze, Jess amplifies the voices of parent carers whilst reshaping how society views neurodiversity.

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Rose Rowkins, is all about confident, clear, compassionate conversations; she even founded a company called Start the Conversation! She has worked as a Samaritan, young person’s Counsellor, Mental Health Youth Worker, multi-award winning Project Lead (Baton of Hope and Safe Space), and over the past 10+ years has taught thousands of people to talk about suicide. She co-created Talking about Suicide: 10 Tools (TAS10) which is now part of the curriculum at several UK Medical Schools. She sings in a sweary choir, lifts weights, has a charity shop obsession, and loves being a mum to Stan (six-and-a-half). Connect on LinkedIn.

Hansa Raja Hansa Raja is Founder of the award-winning charity Holding Space and a passionate advocate for parents and carers in the workplace. Rooted in lived experience, she brings a calm, grounded and compassionate approach to helping organisations build healthier, more human-centred cultures.

With extensive experience across the NHS, community and charity sectors, Hansa has supported staff, volunteers and frontline professionals through the realities of stress, caring pressures and mental health challenges. Her work includes contributing to the first competency training for parent/carer peer support workers — bridging human experience with meaningful, system-level change.

Through her consultancy, Hansa specialises in compassionate leadership, emotional literacy and employee wellbeing strategy, with a particular focus on supporting staff with caring responsibilities. Her workshops are known for being practical, reflective and deeply human — helping teams feel heard, supported and able to bring their whole selves to work.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hansa-raja/

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Tower Point, 44 North Road, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

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