Big Feels At Work: a podcast for mental health workers
Big Feels Club
33 episodes
7 months ago
Today’s ep: part two of my conversation with the awesome Erandathie Jayakody.
When Erandathie first took a job at one of Australia’s biggest mental health not-for-profits, she never would have guessed that a decade later she’d be on the board of directors. Back then, she was just trying to survive the working week. Check out part one for that story.
Here in part two, we cover more of the nuts and bolts of how decisions get made at the highest levels in big mental health organisations, as well as how Erandathie balances all this high-powered work with the need to still look after her energy and mental health.
Topics covered:
What does a board member even do?
How do you avoid getting boxed in as ‘the lived experience person’ on a board?
What's the difference between being a Lived Experience Worker and being someone who works in mental health and just happens to have lived experience?
How do you do demanding work while also managing your own energy and mental health?
Host: Graham Panther.
Guest: Erandathie Jayakody.
What is this thing? More info here: www.bigfeelsatwork.com
Who made this thing? www.bigfeels.club
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Today’s ep: part two of my conversation with the awesome Erandathie Jayakody.
When Erandathie first took a job at one of Australia’s biggest mental health not-for-profits, she never would have guessed that a decade later she’d be on the board of directors. Back then, she was just trying to survive the working week. Check out part one for that story.
Here in part two, we cover more of the nuts and bolts of how decisions get made at the highest levels in big mental health organisations, as well as how Erandathie balances all this high-powered work with the need to still look after her energy and mental health.
Topics covered:
What does a board member even do?
How do you avoid getting boxed in as ‘the lived experience person’ on a board?
What's the difference between being a Lived Experience Worker and being someone who works in mental health and just happens to have lived experience?
How do you do demanding work while also managing your own energy and mental health?
Host: Graham Panther.
Guest: Erandathie Jayakody.
What is this thing? More info here: www.bigfeelsatwork.com
Who made this thing? www.bigfeels.club
Big Feels At Work: a podcast for mental health workers
46 minutes 23 seconds
2 years ago
From Grassroots To Government With Mary O'Hagan
Episode 21 of "Big Feels At Work" -- a podcast for mental health and addictions workers dealing with their own big feelings.
My guest Mary O'Hagan is Victoria’s first ever Executive Director of Lived Experience at the Department of Health. She leads a brand new team at the Department all with lived experience.
(Wait, they’re letting us in the public service!? Eek!)
For Mary this big new role is really just the latest in a long line of big roles.
Mary’s a kiwi, and back in the early 2000s she was New Zealand’s first “openly mad” Mental Health Commissioner, advised the UN on mental health, and ran her own mental health agency, PeerZone.
In this chat we go way back to where it all started, her early days in and out of psych wards as a young woman, and the psychiatric survivor movement she helped initiate in New Zealand in the 1980s.
Then we touch on:
-- How Mary thinks things are tracking today
-- The unique challenges of working in clinical roles with lived experience
-- Why Mary considers herself “a terrible bureaucrat”
-- What keeps her coming back after four decades.
Host: Graham Panther
What is this show? http://bigfeelsatwork.com
Who made this show? http://bigfeels.club
Big Feels At Work: a podcast for mental health workers
Today’s ep: part two of my conversation with the awesome Erandathie Jayakody.
When Erandathie first took a job at one of Australia’s biggest mental health not-for-profits, she never would have guessed that a decade later she’d be on the board of directors. Back then, she was just trying to survive the working week. Check out part one for that story.
Here in part two, we cover more of the nuts and bolts of how decisions get made at the highest levels in big mental health organisations, as well as how Erandathie balances all this high-powered work with the need to still look after her energy and mental health.
Topics covered:
What does a board member even do?
How do you avoid getting boxed in as ‘the lived experience person’ on a board?
What's the difference between being a Lived Experience Worker and being someone who works in mental health and just happens to have lived experience?
How do you do demanding work while also managing your own energy and mental health?
Host: Graham Panther.
Guest: Erandathie Jayakody.
What is this thing? More info here: www.bigfeelsatwork.com
Who made this thing? www.bigfeels.club
