Consultancy

I am available to consult and/or speak about all aspects of user-led lived experience mental health issues. In addition I have over 8 years experience working in the NHS, and  an MSc in Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion from the University of Hertfordshire (2020). 

My areas of experience include:

• Peer support

• Recovery

• Social Prescribing 

• Creativity for health and wellbeing

• Co-production

• Collaboration

• Co-delivery

• Service user voice being heard

Fees on application, discount for small, peer or user led groups .

Here are some examples of my collaborative working / public speaking:

• Health Foundation/Health Equals - What is anxiety? - 18 May 2023

• BBC Radio News - Mental Health Awareness Week - 17 May 2023

• Lets lose the labels - podcast with Vicky Midwood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vvS5tZLLCM May 2023

• Stronger Together Wakefield SCG (NHSE Peer Leadership Academy) From patient to peer Leader - May 2023 

• United Nations UNTV World Autism Awareness Day - April 2023 - https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1d/k1dmb6juu

• Creative Health Review Creative Health Review – Mental Health and Wellbeing across the Life Course Roundtable Novemeber 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqsVo8sPXII&list=PLeuCWSfr2varqA6IwMA1rciNyPmAlTyLO&index=2&pp=iAQB 

• Creative Health Review Launch - October 2022 https://ncch.org.uk/creative-health-review 

• Hertfordshire MIND AGM - October 2022

• Whole Person Health Conference (Integrated and Personalised Medicine) - June 2022 - https://www.ipmcongress.com/conference/whole-person-health-conference

• 4th International Social Prescribing Conference - March 2022

• East of England Social Prescribing conference - March 2022 

• Podcast Daily Bunker - March 2022 - Daily: Wonder Drug Or Placebo - Does Social Prescribing Save Lives? The Bunker podcast (player.fm)

• Afternoon tea with the docs - Feb 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4o3ulGjfu0

• BBC Radio Leeds 4th February 2022 - (BBC content no longer available)

• World Health Innovation Summit Arts for sustainable Developmental Goals - Sept 2021: https://podbay.fm/p/world-health-innovation-summit-podcast/e/1631944800 

• WHO webinar World Health Innovation Summit (Arts for sustainability)  - May 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ixDOubG04k 

• Became Trustee for National Centre for Creative Health - April 2021 National Centre for Creative Health (ncch.org.uk) 

• Creative partnerships for health Public Health Panorama - VOLUME 6 | ISSUE 1 | 2020 https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331552/php-6-1-4-5-eng.pdf 

• Social Prescribing Day We Communities 12 March 2020   http://www.wecommunities.org/tweet-chats/chat-details/5471

• A summary of the launch of the WHO report on the evidence base for arts and health, Helsinki, Finland, November 2019  https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/issn.2535-7913-2020-01-07

• Creative recovery - West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health December 2019 https://www.wypartnership.co.uk/application/files/7615/8089/8965/Case_Study_Creative_Recovery_V2.pdf

• National Elf Service sound cloud November 2019 https://soundcloud.com/national-elf-service/debs-teale

• Arts on prescription. Royal Society of Public Health. London. November 2019

• Dwell time October 2019 https://dwelltimepress.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/debs-teale/

• Keep Fit Kingdom interview July 2019 https://keepfitkingdom.com/interview-with-debs-teale/

• National Social Prescribing Conference - A joint conference hosted by NHS England and the Royal College of Psychiatrists June 2019 - Royal College of Psychiatrists, London  https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/events/find-an-event/social-prescribing/social-prescribing---online-programme.pdf?sfvrsn=8ac27a1f_2

• Round table with Matt Hancock, secretary of state for Health and social care. Social prescribing. 27 Mar 2019.

• Clarence House, London. A Reception in recognition of Social Prescription. April 2019

• BBC radio Leeds - Suicide awareness, 2nd February 2018 - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05wwftx 

• Kings Fund Stakeholder Breakfast (community services, making the most of our assets) - January 2018 www.kingsfund.org.uk/events/community-services?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=thekingsfund 

• TLAP Manchester - Building Community Capacity Practitioners Network Meeting - December 2018

• NHS England/Social Prescribing Network - January 2018 (Newcastle)

• Elsie Whiteley Innovation centre, Halifax - Peri natal mental health awareness - December 2017

• Health Foundation - Q Lab workshop - peer support - December 2017 (​Birmingham)

• Elemental software - Social prescribing , A new beginning - October 2017 (Belfast)

• Huddersfield Royal Infirmary - Compassionate Care in Practice Conference for Nurses - September 2017

• NHS England - Radical redesign and disruption – the next frontier for social prescribing - September 2017 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkVTCjW91Iw 

• TLAP Birmingham - Building Community Capacity Practitioners Network - September 2017

• Houses Of Parliament - All Party Parliamentary Group - Arts and health report - July 2017 - https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/appg-inquiry/ 

• NHS England Leeds - Centre for mental health - Mental health masterclass July 2017

• University of Huddersfield - Spirituality and mental health conference July 2017

• Northern College Barnsley - Mental Wealth conference June 2017

• Kings fund  London HRH Prince Charles - May 2017 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT35aDMbTAI 

• Realising the Value webinar (health foundation) - December 2016 - https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/my-realising-the-value-journey/ 

• NHS providers Birmingham 29th/30th Nov 2016 

• Health Foundation - Co-production Sheffield 18th Nov 2016

• ​NHS England - Health and care Innovation expo Sept 7/8th 2016 - https://www.england.nhs.uk/expo/ 

• Sheffield Micro systems academy June 2016 

• Crisis Care Concordat (Yorkshire Ambulance Service) March 2016

• Arts in Health/Art Therapies Birmingham Conference March 2014

• IMROC Harrogate - March 2014 - https://imroc.org 

• International Health Festival - Jönköping, Sweden - Feb 2014