Starting the Conversation

Creating Healthy People & Communities

Starting the Conversation is a nurse-led not-for-profit organization, delivering thematic educational programs through interactive online, digital, and in-person deliveries. We integrate both preventative and community mental health recovery approaches that help nurses and their fellow healthcare professionals strategically master their emotional, psychological, and mental wellbeing needs, one doable step at a time, enabling them to be healthier individuals and better healthcare practitioners.

COVID-19 has underscored the importance of our mental wellbeing. It has advanced the need for increased support for nurses and their fellow healthcare professionals dealing with their own mental health issues, and its impact on their role to effectively support their patients and the people they serve. It leads us to ask:

What supports do nurses and their fellow healthcare professionals have?
What resources can they draw upon to get through each day?
How can they maintain their mental, emotional, and psychological wellbeing without fearing for what lies ahead or grief from the past?
What tools and strategies are they using as they endeavor to maintain protocols set out by their governing bodies?
Where do nurses go to grieve?

The educational programs delivered by Starting the Conversation’s team of experienced, credentialed, knowledgeable facilitators, and educators, provides a robust curriculum that addresses the needs and wants of nurses and their fellow healthcare professionals. The organization’s methodology creates long-lasting positive impacts that address and transforms mental health challenges.

Starting the Conversation offers a healthier more advanced approach than alternate methods by offering healthcare professionals a learning platform that creates awareness, enhances their knowledge and skills, and empowers nurses to talk about the ups and downs of their work experiences in a safe, inclusive, and open environment.

Using a theme-based approach to learning, combined with the integration of preventative measures, community supports, mentors, and social prescription, the Starting the Conversation team has experienced results that exceed the outcomes of approaches that currently exist.

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