RECORDING: Wellbeing beyond the military – a Veteran-focused webinar

[Ru-bee]

Watch our Veteran-focused webinar, where we explore Wellbeing beyond the military.

Hosted by SANE CEO Rachel Green and featuring guest speakers:

Nicole Sadler, Director and CEO at Phoenix Australia: The Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, and

Warwick Lugton, Veteran and GM, Training and Capability at Disaster Relief Australia

We discuss strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing in the veteran community.

You’ll gain valuable insights on:

• The diverse experiences of veterans

• Transitioning to civilian life

• Wellbeing beyond military service

• Navigating stigma

• The importance of community support

Watch here:

@AloneBroken @01_Humblebee @McShrinqui @SouthsNo1 @RugbyAFL @Greentothebone @Oaktree @JJSmith @AllAboutMissy 

[RachSANECEO]

Hi Veterans Forum members

I hope you can join me online tonight for the Veterans Webinar I am hosting. If you have a question on Veterans and Wellbeing you'd like to share here and tag me I'll add it to the list for the Q&A portion tonight !

@Radder

@AlexAble

@PeppyPatti

@Harmonee

@AloneBroken

@01_Humblebee

@McShrinqui

@RugbyAFL

@Greentothebone

@Oaktree

@Fraz23

@TAB

@JJSmith

[RachSANECEO]

@Oaktree @RugbyAFL what did you think of the event this evening? Anything resonate particularly for you? 

[RugbyAFL]

Thought it was an extremely important and worthwhile webinar

[Oaktree]

@RachSANECEO 

I enjoyed it, thanks for putting it on. I had never heard of Disaster Relief Australia. They seem like a great organisation doing really good work in the community. 
I left the Army in 1991 and DVA were very adversarial. I wonder if I should try applying again

[RachSANECEO]

I think in life it’s always worth being open to trying things again. I don’t know much about the actual process but perhaps others in this forum will have more information they can share?

We could also ask DVA for some information and resources on the process, whether it’s changed over time? Could be a future topic suggestion for a peer group chat q&a?

[RachSANECEO]

Welcome new forum members
@JenGee
@AstroB
@TipToe
@Radder

Would love you to say hi with an intro post and share any thoughts or feedback on the webinar ?

[TipToe]

Hi All, I found this platfrom through the webinar below. It was a great experience for me.

I was in the Army for 13 years, mostly as a Medic, deployed a number of times and was lucky that for the most part those were profound and postitve experiences that have served me well in keeping perspective for mhy life outside the military.

I did not enjoy a lot of my time in the Army, however I recognise many of the tenets of service are now the things that give my life structure, alignment to values, continued discipline to work towards my ultimate goals of serving others every day.

I find other veterans regulalry who are looking for a way to re-engage in purposeful endeavors and finding many different ways to do that, now more than ever before, some just by helping others in our vteran community.

It gives me real hope.

[RachSANECEO]

Hi @TipToe

Welcome and thanks so much for joining in with your first post! Tagging @Oaktree here who has been around the forums a while to say hi and welcome as well.

[tyme]

Welcome @TipToe !

Thank you so much for sharing! We look forward to seeing you connect with others.