IMHA offers workshops and training for mental health services and the community on parts of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022.
Learn about the principles
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 has principles that all mental health staff, allied health staff and mental health services should consider when making decisions about people’s care, treatment or assessment.
To find out what these principles are, click on Principles of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act.
Workshops – Implementing Principles in Practice
We are delivering workshops on the principles as part of our Principles in Practice (PiP) project.
This project is being delivered together by two services – Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) and Centre for Mental Health Learning (CMHL).
The workshops will focus on 13 wellbeing principles from the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act and 7 principles from Our workforce, our future (the Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Capability Framework).
The aim of the PiP project is to support the mental health and wellbeing workforce to develop:
- an understanding of principles in the Act and the Framework
- co-create strategies to best apply and sustain these principles when working with consumers and their supporters.
Psychiatrist workshops
This specialised workshop aims to provide psychiatrists with practical development through reflective discussions and peer learning. The workshops are delivered with support from the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist.
The workshop is developed with guidance from lived and living experience experts, psychiatrists and The Office of the Chief Psychiatrist (OCP).
If you are a psychiatrist you can register for our workshops:
- 24 March 2025 from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm: consultant psychiatrists – register
- 15 April 2025 from 10 am to 12 pm: consultant psychiatrists – register
- 13 May 2025 from 10 am to 12 pm: consultant psychiatrists – register
- 24 June 2025 from 10 am to 12 pm: registrar psychiatrists – register.
Mental health and wellbeing workforce
This full day workshop will help mental health and wellbeing workforce professionals to analyse their current practices in relation to the principles.
It is delivered both online and in-person.
You will learn how to identify the best ways to demonstrate the principles and continuously improve their application.
The workshop will include practical tools, reflective exercises, and peer learning. The workshops are offered both online and in-person.
You can attend these workshops if you are one of the following:
- a staff member employed in an Area Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (AMHWS)
- a lived experience workforce (LEW) worker working in a public clinical mental health state-funded role.
Register for one of the upcoming workshops:
- 19 March 2025: online – register
- 31 March 2025: in-person in Bendigo – register
- 29 April 2025: online – register
- 18 June 2025: in-person in Geelong – register.
Targeted sessions for leadership: implementing the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 PiP
Specific sessions for managers and leaders will be held to support systemic alignment with the principles.
Principles in Practice: Sustaining change together
A reflective session for past PiP workshop participants will be held.
Date: 6 May 2025: online.
Invitations will be sent directly to those who have completed the PiP workshop.
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