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If you’re passionate about mental health, connection, or creating real change – we need you 🪷
We are facilitating a community night to share our vision for our not for profit (soon to be charity) and need a call to action with your voices.
Looking for volunteers, helpers, with ideas and enthusiasm and anyone that has/had struggles or walked alongside another in their time of despair.
Please come and share your skills, experiences and time to create a charity for community by our community.
Kerry will be sharing her purpose and vision; along with two other community members that will share their journey experiencing Kerry’s advocacy and support and how it has empowered them.
We want to hear from you; this is an open free event
Our vision is to empower, to offer hope, connection and mutual understanding through the power of advocacy.
About Kerry: Kerry Gleeson is Lived Experience Practitioner and Advocate.
She brings both her professional training and her lived experience to the work she does. She knows what it’s like to struggle, and she knows how powerful it can be to have someone beside you who genuinely understands.
In her own healing, talk therapy was an important foundation, but there came a point where she needed additional tools to move through the hardest parts of her journey. Exploring alternative modalities was a necessary step that helped her reconnect with herself when nothing else was reaching the deeper layers of her pain. Those practices became a meaningful part of her recovery and helped her find hope again.
That experience shifted her path. She chose to train in these modalities not just for her own growth, but so she could offer others the same sense of possibility, support, and practical tools that helped her rebuild her life. Her work is grounded and she truly believes no one should have to navigate their hardest moments alone, and no matter how dark your day feels you can find a tiny glimpse of hope if you connect with the right person in the right moment.
She is a trauma-informed, person centered and advocate whose lived experiences of Childhood sexual abuse, Family violence, Mental Health challenges, and Suicide shape her powerful voice and actions for change.
With an Honours Degree and Mental Health First Aid Accredited. She is also a STARS Licensed Practitioner, Reiki Master/Teacher, Trauma Informed Breathwork Facilitator and Holistic Counsellor.
She also guides organisations through a lived experience lens, fostering trauma- informed, person-centred approaches to mental health, suicide prevention, and service delivery. She elevates lived experience as a catalyst for systemic change across health, education, and community sectors.
Who this is for:
Everyone
Anyone touched by mental health struggles
Anyone looking to get involved in a new community project
Philanthropists
Parents
Business owners
Educators
Health care workers
Politicians
Community service workers
Existing organisations
Anyone who cares about people and creating positive change.
To read more about Kerry’s work
https://www.theadvocatekerry.org/
Also check out other Health & Wellness events in Mona Vale, Nonprofit events in Mona Vale.
