 I'm in Jersey, the weather is beautiful, I'm here for a conference for two days, I've actually been here all weekend with my family, this morning I'm now going to get over to some helio where the event is, get you posted throughout the day. So we're at the conference venue, we're at that moment when it's a big nice quiet room, I love this part of the day, it's about to get noisy though because it's just about to start letting people in. So today is an event for young people, you can just see them beginning to come in now and then there's also going to be an event for professionals and parents. We've made very good progress since that first conference in 2016, both in supporting our students and our staff with mental health issues. Our whole community recognises the importance of working together and to provide the right support. If you can just show somebody a bit of kindness, sometimes that's all you need to do. And it's going to eat you. I'm running four workshops about how to be a good friend to someone who's depressed. The first one's just happened and I think it went okay. What did I learn? Even if you don't feel like you can talk to someone you can always build yourself up from within. I work for an organisation called UMatter. We are in their PSHE lessons talking about things like sex and relationships, self-esteem. I just learned that you should really be there for someone, especially if they're experiencing a tough time, and really just listen to them and talk to them, but also to not force the talk and really understand why they're coming for you. You shouldn't always just tell them that things will get okay because sometimes they just need you to listen. Okay, we're getting ready for the final session. I've just been told apparently it's going to be really creative to go leading it as a poet. So all of you have written a group poem. Strength is saying when you're not okay. Strength is naming your weaknesses. Strength is talking. Strength is love. Strength is saying yes. Strength is saying no. And strength is power. Thank you very much. You wrote that! Looks like that was over. Part one is done. Everyone's leaving. I have sat down with the team from Youthful Minds. I say hi guys. Youthful Minds are a group of young people, but we can tackle and reduce stigma and discrimination on the island of Jersey. You just have to be like a good person, want to help, and that can have a really good benefit for somebody. Check on your friends. Ask your even your happiest friends. How are you doing? We do have lives outside of school, and the lesson was sat in at that moment might not be our priority. It's now late to the same day. I've done the thing that everybody hates, and I've updated my slides just before the event, which I never normally do, but I captured some really good video footage earlier, so I wanted to include that. Our aim, policy of aim really, is to help you as parents and carers become more informed about mental health. We aim to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health in Jersey, especially as it impacts on young people. The school has been inspired to develop a wellbeing and mental health provision for all our boys. I've just done my talk. There's like, I don't know, two, three hundred parents here. It's quite a lot of people. It was all about how parents can support their child. I'm here as a parent of three, and also as a Samaritan. We've got these Samaritan shush listening tips. It's just very relevant to what you were saying about having patients showing that you care, really important, saying it back, reflecting that you care, really important, saying it back, reflecting back to your child what they're saying, using the open questions and also having courage actually having that conversation with them, knowing what you say if your child is telling you they're having a difficult time. And what would be your tip as a Samaritan? How do you manage that? Not necessarily saying anything, just the fact that you're there. Inevitably and subconsciously is you will start to compare your lived reality with everyone else's very carefully curated highlights. And during exam time the anxiety will be coming up slowly. It will be about here most of the time. It's very close to hitting to overwhelm. You need to be on higher alert and thinking what are the things that we can do to make sure that we bring the calmness back in. So I'm now back at my hotel and really it's time just to go to sleep. I'm so tired. Good night. It's the beginning of another beautiful day in Jersey. It's just something out there. Today we've got professionals. I'm just putting the finishing touches on my presentations for the day of which I'm giving three. Really looking forward to it. Okay, I've arrived. The room's really, really full, really, really busy. I'm sitting on the table with the young ambassadors who are featuring in my presentation. They're doing a workshop later. We'll talk to them a bit more. We had a room of 214 to 19-year-olds. And gosh, they made us proud. At the time I myself was going through depression because of my shame and discomfort I've never told it. But actually that day I did tell it in the lunch queue and that was a real relief to be able to do that. And then two months later at Victoria College in the whole staff insect in the great hall with all our brief expressions it seemed absolutely right thing to do to tell that audience that I had personal experience with depression as a way of starting a conversation about stigma and opening up that conversation at Victoria College. This place was buzzing. Because Pookie, are you not in the room yet? Yeah. Are you filming you? Yes, sorry. I took your advice. I had a very hot stressful day yesterday. It ended up with budgets, not good. And so I thought, oh, I'm going to go home, grab a dog and go for a walk on the beach. And I felt much better. So I released a little bit of that stress. Despite my power, I am a youth. I think it's very important for it not to be a confusing process. Listen and listen to sort of be there and not listen to go, oh what am I going to say next. At 15 I was expected to meet someone new and tell them my whole life story and then because of high staff turning about which actually as young people isn't our problem we are expected to do that over and over again. I just want to say thank you so much for your bravery as well and for sharing. Come marvel at me, Batman. Linguistic reflexes like a cat man. I leap over the cleverest verse that I've never even rehearsed and I still land on my feet. I'm a daredevil. I caredevil. I never even have to swear devil. It's Liz Kendrick-Largen and Suzanne Jobs, rain child. But I found a sponsorship 18 months ago and I've been helping her ever since. I think you deserve a pat on the back for that. Thank you. Lot of people enjoying coffee, having a break. It's the kind of thing where I could be like do you want to come say hi on camera and everyone's going to say no. Everyone just runs away when you have a camera. This is another great thing I'm learning. I don't like people. I like people but autism and lots of people are noise stuff. I found if I walk around with a camera no one actually wants to talk to me which is actually quite good. The other tip for how to manage a conference if you're pooky and you find noise and people are really stressful is toilets. Yes, I'm filming myself in the toilet. I realise that's probably weird. But I spend quite a lot of time hiding in toilets and it just gives me a moment. I sometimes do some box breathing or finger breathing, you know that kind of thing. Just for a minute or two and kind of help myself to reset a little bit. I'm going to introduce you briefly to the people who make the magic happen. So the tech guys. So this is all the screen equipment. So this runs back to the projectors which you see up there. I've got a few laptops on the go. So I've got the next presentation ready loaded on this laptop. So are you from Jersey? Have I imagined that? Partly, I'm from Leicestershire but I was raised in Jersey between 8 and 18 so I spent 10 years here. So all my formative years in schooling was here. So I've been named like proper fangirl stuff so I do poetry not like you but I wrote a book about using poetry for healing stuff and I've always wanted to learn to rap and now you maybe really really want to and I've also gone, that looks really hard. I don't know if I can learn. There's a way of doing it. I could teach you the tricks and the trade. I'm going to learn to rap. So we have finite, fixed brain bandwidth a fixed capacity to focus on certain things at any one time. We just had the lunch break which as you know is not my favourite thing. Someone kindly took pity on me and went and got me a sandwich which I ate quite a little on my own and now my room is just beginning to fill up so I am going to be teaching a workshop about eating disorders and then another one about cell phone. It sounds like you're doing a great job. It sounds like you're doing a great job, yes. Relapse is a really, really important part of eating disorders recovery. We can think that there is only one way to recover and that's perfectly. If we need to help people recognise that there's lots of different ways to recover and it doesn't always look neat. There'll be good days, there'll be bad days and the most important thing is on the bad days to ask for help and support and I will help you. I will be here. It's okay. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Stop, stop, stop, stop. It's not 1992. I'll play it for that. Okay, just go for it. So at Saltgate we're really committed to wellbeing and supporting young people particularly in our community but extending outside of Jersey as well. We really want to engage. We've set up a charitable fund and we've put one and a quarter million pounds in there and we want to spend it on things like the wellbeing conference and everything that comes out of it. Health and wellbeing. We want to be working with charities and with great organisations to be getting the messages out there and getting the support out there. That's really where we're coming from and the feedback's been phenomenal so we're really pleased that the attendance has been so great. The speakers have all been so fantastic and hopefully the messages will get out there and more good will come from this. So, do you reckon it might happen again? Yes, absolutely. We're really committed to this. We'd love to see more events like this. Brilliant. That was phenomenal. That's a wrap. I'm eating leftover brownie. Clearing up stuff. They're breaking everything down. We're done. It's been a long couple of days but it's been great.