A evening of shared lived experiences to support our local communities mental health and wellbeing.
The event is a collaboration between World Health Innovation Summit and Carlisle Eden Mind.
7pm Opening address - Caroline Robinson (Carlisle Eden Mind) Gareth Presch (WHIS)
7.10pm Scott Squire – has suffered with mental and physical problems for some years. He recently found PowerLifting as both a release for his mental health problems and a weight loss technique. Since he started training his has lost 11 stone in weight and after just 18 months in the sport was invited to be part of the GB team at the World Championships in Texas which took part in April of this year. Scott is also now retraining as a Mental Health Nurse at the University of Cumbria and is just going into his second year.
7.30pm Rod Anderson – speaks openly and with good humour about his relationship with addiction having recovered from alcoholism. Since losing his job and rebuilding his life, Rod has achieved amazing things which he would never have dreamt of previously. He proudly started working for Carlisle Eden Mind earlier this year as a Volunteer Support Worker and trains people in Recovery Coaching.
Break
8.10pm Kate Bainbridge – lost her son, Ben Osborne to suicide in 2014. She is Deputy Head at Alston Moor Federation and her son worked at the Penrith Leisure Centre. His death had a ripple effect across the community. One of his cloest friends, Jon, along with Jon’s brother, ran the London Marathon this year and helped to raise over £7000 for Suicide Prevention across Cumbria. When Kate speaks about her experiences she captivates an audience with the rawness of her experiences. She works closely with the Suicide Safer Eden group to raise awareness of suicide as a community wide issue.
8.30pm Annie Hackwell WHIS Impact
Panel Discussion - Close 9pm
What is the World Health Innovation Summit and Why is It So Successful?
Established in 2015 the World Health Innovation Summit is now engaged in over 20 countries. Its two Cumbrian Summits had 40 million social media imprints worldwide. Tested and now being adopted in cities across the UK— Carlisle, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Newcastle, Cornwall, and Fylde – WHIS is now actively engaged with growing in-country networks in India, Thailand, the Philippines, Greece, Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, Sweden, Japan, and New Zealand. WHIS won the Carlisle Living Award Innovation Award and Special Recognition Award at the Zenith Global Healthcare Awards in 2016.
WHIS builds financially self-sustaining infrastructures focused on the health, vitality, and wellness of local communities around the world. Designed and carried out by local innovators and entrepreneurs, WHIS’ communities address local needs and honor local innovators and entrepreneurs, while leveraging WHIS’ experience, financial and other resources, and global networks.
The linchpin of the WHIS model is generosity and strategic trust. In practical terms WHIS’s successes to date can be attributed to the effective implementation of several social innovations.
Building Local Community Value. The WHIS process is a fusion of local and global, in-person and online, collaboration. It identifies, highlights, and engages innovators and entrepreneurs involved in community health, vitality and wellbeing to come together in a Summit that showcases, and for the first time encourages creative synergies among them in an active dialogue with the entire community. WHIS connects these resources to its global network and markets, and introduces the most relevant products and services to the local community. This process produces a surplus that is then paid forward to the local community in terms of financial support and the creation of new well-paying jobs (“innovators for health”). Local communities around the world are supported by the WHIS’ expanding global network.
By Julian Gresser, Chairman Global Alliances