Mind Your Head - online

The Mind Your Head conference was held at Wembley Conference Centre on 14 June 2006 as part of Men's Health Week. The theme of both the week and the conference was improving the mental well-being of men and boys.

The morning programme featured addresses from Dr Howard Stoate MP, the chair of the All-Party Group on Men's Health; Rosie Winterton MP, the minister of state for health services; Alan White, professor of men's health at Leeds Met University and chair of the MHF board of trustees; Kwame McKenzie, senior lecturer in psychiatry at the Royal Free and University College Medical School; and Mike Bush, associate lecturer in mental health at Leeds Met University and a user of mental health services.

The day was then given over to symposiums and workshops, notes from which are available below to download as PDFs.

Symposia

1. Improving mental well-being by changing workplace culture
2. Improving well-being via male-gender sensitive health and social care services
3. Improving mental well-being in gay, bisexual and transgender men

Workshops

1. Removing barriers to mental well-being in BME men
2. Working with older men
3. Boys and young men in educational and other settings
4. Sexual abusers, sexually-abused men
5. Men and disability
6. Suicide prevention
7. Men who are violent
8. Mental well-being, physical activity, lifestyle

Not all the workshops were covered so if you have a contribution from a workshop that we're missing, please get in touch using the feedback form below.