Paul Spinks
Are we micro managing ourselves sick or well?
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Driven by a desire to change public perception around the growing impacts of mental and physical health and how we as a society are micro-managing ourselves sick, Paul is regularly called upon as a professional speaker to talk about these important issues.
Paul’s experience in the field of mental health is unquestioned, with his background as a paramedic and trauma counsellor helping him to build trust with his audience and adding great weight to the message he delivers.
Companies often engage keynote speakers and trainers to deliver seminars to raise awareness and inspire, but way too often the message only hangs around for a few days, maybe some weeks before old habits prevail. What if we could change that status quo?
“1 in 2 are depressed”
“Suicide is the leading cause of death between 15 and 44”
“50 million mind altering prescriptions filled in Australia last year just to get through the day,”
Is it time we are all engaged at a different level? You will be shocked to learn how cracks form in your mental and physical health and why we must try new approaches to maximise both staff and our home performance. Placing layers of surface level concepts on how to better behave and perform may only lead to reduced outcomes.
If we are to make any impact on our health and wellbeing and our life satisfaction at home and in the work place, we must firstly take ownership of ourselves. We seem to spend years studying everything and everybody else rather than ourselves. I always say to people, if only everybody could spend a week ride along in an Ambulance, it would change the way they do business forever. This presentation just might be the next best thing!
Feedback
It was a pleasure having you present to our people across our many sites. We do honestly believe that we need to give our people the best information possible so that they can manage themselves well. We need to be strong and resilient both physically and mentally for the many challenges we have in our lives and your work with us made a huge impact on many of our people. I look forward to Thrive 2.0 and to keeping in contact with you.
I am finally getting round to saying a huge thank you for your fantastic session with us at TAFE on Tuesday. I can't recall the last time I was so engaged and sympathetic to someone else's concerns and opinions on such fundamental values. It was full of fantastic stuff...such a timely reminder at the start of a work year. What an amazing man you are to share such wisdom and make yourself so human and vulnerable. You are going through big times yourself...I'm not sure how you are able to keep giving. I just wanted to say I'm incredibly grateful. Paul...keep looking after yourself in these times and lean on people when you need to....you provide that support to many others!
I can’t thank you enough for the outstanding talk yesterday which has undoubtedly had a profound impact on attendees. We are receiving constant feedback about how amazing the launch was and numerous requests for the recording (already!) There’s no doubt you were the perfect choice to assist us change the perception of our staff wellbeing program from the ‘nice to have/optional extra’ to something that’s fundamentally essential to our core business - which is delivering the best quality education outcomes to Queensland children and families.
I can’t thank you enough for the outstanding talk yesterday which has undoubtedly had a profound impact on attendees. We are receiving constant feedback about how amazing the launch was and numerous requests for the recording (already!)
There’s no doubt you were the perfect choice to assist us change the perception of our staff wellbeing program from the ‘nice to have/optional extra’ to something that’s fundamentally essential to our core business - which is delivery the best quality education outcomes to Queensland children and families.
That would be great to hear from Kylie. It was unbelievable to witness the buzz amongst staff who were talking about their results. You told me this would happen too!
I will share your information with attendees and I’m sure there will be numerous requests following this.
We are collecting formal feedback via a survey, but wanted to tell you how great Paul was on Thursday
He is an impressive presenter. I could see the majority of the audience and they were riveted.
A number of people came up to me to say they were going home to download his key messages with their kids.
A lot of the content was deeply personal and that of course lends a huge degree of strength and credibility
It was a great pleasure to meet Paul and we will certainly look for other ways to engage him again
Thanks for all your help in making this possible
Firstly, THANKYOU for your absolutely invigorating presentation tonight for BHP Billiton families of which I attended. I thoroughly enjoyed it and feel inspired on so many fronts.
My mind is a live wire at the moment lots of messages and thoughts all very positive running around upstairs!
