Hygeia: A Conference on Mental Wellness at the Workplace

Programme

Hygeia 2024

Empowering Your People: Healthy minds for a thriving workplace

DoubleTree, Qawra (formerly the Dolmen hotel)

25-10-2024, 08:00 - 15:00

08:00 - Registration & Coffee

08:30 - Welcome & Introduction

event host trudy kerr

AN ADDRESS BY THE HON. JO ETIENNE ABELA, MINISTER FOR health & ACTIVE AGING

08:40 - Keynote 1

"The Impact of humour & mood on the Workplace"

KATE HULL RODGERS, MANAGING DIRECTOR AT HuMOURUS

09:20 - Richmond Foundation Partner Testimonial

RAY DEBATTISTA, chief people officer at bank of valletta

09:30 - Panel discussion 1

"Anxiety – What is it? Why are so many suffering from it? Are we over-diagnosing it?"

Will include presentation on research on workplace burnout in Malta carried out at the Central Mediterranean Business School

Panel Leader: PROF ANDREW AZZOPARDI, Professor, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta

PaneLISTS:

KENNETH FARRUGIA, BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY COACH, CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN BUSINESS SCHOOL

Graeme HENDRICKS, clinical psychologist at the richmond foundation

DR NATALIE KENELY, SENIOR LECTURER AT THE FACULTY FOR SOCIAL WELLBEING, UNIVERISTY OF MALTA

Dr Rachel (Sasha) Taylor-East, Psychiatrist at Malta Mental Health Services, and President of the Maltese Association of Psychiatry

10:30

Networking Coffee Break

10:50 - Keynote 2

"The benefits organisations can gain from investing in their employees' mental well-being"

KARL BENNETT, CHAIR OF EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME ASSOCIATION (EAPA) UK

11:30 - Panel Discussion 2

"The Cost of not having a Mental Health policy"

Panel Leader: DR ANN BUGEJA, PARTNER at GVZH Advocates

PaneLISTS:

julian azzopardi, founder at big brown eyes LTd

ROSEANNE CAMILLERI, CEO AT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

MARIELLA MARINKOVIC, director of hr international at crane currency

Dr ovid tiereAn, senior advisor at pkf malta
Dr Denis Vella Baldacchino, Commissioner for the Promotion of Rights of Persons with Mental Disorders

12:30 - Insight

"Introducing a new barometer designed to monitor and assess well-being at the workplace"

godfrey kenely, consultant at the richmond foundation

12:45 - Interview

"Trauma in the workplace: myth or reality? How PTSD affects a workplace one person at a time"

Interview with ANDREW FOX, RESEARCH FELLOW AT THE HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY AND FORMER BRITISH ARMY MAJOR

INTERVIEWER: TRUDY KERR, Presenter, & Producer of The SHE Word podcast, Ultra Runner and Author

13:30 - Closing

CLOSING ADDRESS BY DANIELA CALLEJA BITAR, CEO AT THE RICHMOND FOUNDATION

13:35 - 15:00

Networking Lunch

15:00 - 16:00

Optional Extra - for bonus ticket holders

"10 step programme for mental health and wellness"

KATE HULL RODGERS, MANAGING DIRECTOR AT HuMOURUS

EUR120 exc. VAT per participant

An additional EUR30 exc. VAT (total EUR150 exc. VAT per participant) to attend extra workshop at 15:00hrs

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