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Health and wellbeing for early years professionals
19 May, 2017 @ 9:30 am - 2:30 pm UTC+10
Dr Lyn O’Grady leads this session designed to help professionals develop skills of self-care in order to manage stress and challenge within their personal and work lives.
This session will:
- define self-care and what it means
- unpack self-care in the context of home and work life
- explore why self-care matters
- identify impacts and barriers to successful self-care
- provide tips, tools and strategies to develop a self-care plan and to act on it
- share resources and guidance on when to seek professional help.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Dr Lyn O’Grady is an experienced Community Psychologist with a particular interest in the mental health and wellbeing of children, young people and families. She has worked with parents in parenting programs and individually at the community level and in schools for over 20 years. Lyn also worked as a school psychologist in the Western Metropolitan Region of Melbourne and is a supervisor of psychology interns. At a more systemic level, she currently works as the National Project Manager for KidsMatter at the Australian Psychological Society.
