Quarterly Breakfast Briefing: Dublin - 14 June 2012

This is the second of The Wheel’s four early-morning seminars in 2012 exploring the key issues affecting leaders and decision-makers in community, voluntary organisations and charities.   

Topic & Speaker: 

Stepping Into Change - Insights to Equip You When Setting Up a New Charity

Tony Bates, the Founder and Director of Headstrong, will be our speaker for this high-energy breakfast event. Tony will draw on his vast practical and professional experience to not only give you an overview of the more common challenges that you will face when tasked with setting up your own charity, but he will also be able to to give all attendees the benefit of his accumulated insight into how to not only get your charity off the ground but also, how to ensure that it really thrives and delivers. Short and sweet and sure to get your day off to a buzzing beginning, this breakfast briefing is an essential diary date for those of you that already have a clear passion and a mission and now are just searching for some direction...

(Tony's input will be between 8.10am - 8.40am followed by a Q&A session).

About Tony Bates.

Tony has 30 years of experience of working in the field of mental health. In 2006 he founded Headstrong – The National Centre for Youth Mental Health, an organisation committed to changing how Ireland thinks about young people’s mental health. Tony's vision in setting up Headstrong was to change the existing mental health systems that were not in place (and which were failing young people in various ways), in order to bring about accessible and youth-friendly mental health supports across Ireland. 

Prior to establishing Headstrong, Tony worked as Principal Clinical Psychologist at St James’s Hospital. He worked and trained in the US and Oxford University alongside some of the leading international innovators in mental health. On his return to Ireland in 1996 he established the Trinity College Dublin’s Masters in Cognitive Psychotherapy. Tony is also regular contributor to national print and broadcast debate about mental health, including a fortnightly column in the Irish Times. 

http://headstrong.ie