PEER SUPPORT GROUPS FOR PEOPLE WORKING IN THE CREATIVE, MEDIA AND MARKETING INDUSTRIES
Our Mentally-Healthy research keeps surfacing the same pattern — the pressures of this industry are felt deeply, but most of us face the lows alone. Never Not Listening are small, peer-led groups where you learn to notice challenges earlier, regulate in the moment, and speak honestly about what you need at work.
OVERVIEW
Never Not Learning is a 6-session peer support program for professionals in the creative, media and marketing industries. Each 2-hour session is a safe-enough, confidential space to share experiences, learn evidence-based skills and practise using them.
The focus is on you: noticing earlier (before things escalate), regulating in the moment, and having clearer self-advocacy conversations, naming limits and needs, and asking for adjustments. At the same time, you're supported and heard by like-minded people, with sessions facilitated by Mental Health First Aiders who guide the process while participating as peers, not experts.
THE PROGRAM
- 6x fortnightly, 2-hour sessions over 12 weeks
- Face-to-face mental wellbeing sessions held by video (or in-person where possible) with the same group and facilitators throughout
- A private channel to ask questions & check in with the group between sessions
- Held on the same day and time each fortnight e.g. First and third Mondays of the month, 6pm – 8pm.
- Structured sessions with a consistent routine: check-ins, short skill drops, paired prctice and action planning that supports you listening and sharing with others
This program structure draws on the evidence-based content from mental health professionals while incorporating insights from the Mentally-Healthy research and practical advice from the Asking For A Friend series and industry / subject-matter reports and podcasts.
OUTLINE
SESSION 1: COMMUNICATION, CONNECTION & NOTICING STRESS VS BURNOUT
SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH IN OUR INDUSTRY (SELF-FIRST)
SESSION 3: THE MIND–BODY CONNECTION
SESSION 4: THOUGHTS AREN'T FACTS
SESSION 5: MINDFULNESS, SELF-COMPASSION & GRATITUDE
SESSION 6: MOVING FORWARD (PERSONAL MAINTENANCE + SELF-ADVOCACY)
WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS:
Safe-enough, confidential spaces where you can tell your story, listen and practise skills like open communication, regulation and self-advocacy.
A place to be supported through challenges without judgement.
An opportunity to be empowered on your own mental health journey, with a team of peers around you to share life's ups and downs.
Peer spaces — no experts, just a group of industry peers there to support one another.
A starting point for further support pathways and additional mental health services when you need them.
WHAT IT ISN’T:
A replacement for a mental health clinician.
A place to unpack complex trauma or serious mental health challenges.
Designed to support someone who is suicidal or in crisis.
A public forum anyone can drop into without prior review, or a drop-in / drop-out service.