Ben Jones—The Story of Hopelessness
Have you ever lost all hope? I’ve never been through a time of total despair or complete hopelessness. Yet this is how some people can feel a lot of the time. My question today is what do I do to better support someone who feels hopeless? Having been there, gone through it, and come out the other side, I thought Ben would be a good person to ask. In this session we will also be looking at realistic timeframes for recovery. Are we talking days, weeks, months or years? What does recovery even look like?
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Ben Jones’ bio
Ben is passionate about work-life balance, burnout, resilience and the relationship between mental health and the workplace following a breakdown in 2014/15 when in a senior role in one of the world's leading professional services organisations.
He is training to become a psychotherapist, doing a masters in counselling and psychotherapy. Ben has over twenty years’ experience of communications roles in global businesses, having worked with a wide range of iconic UK and international organisations, including within the NHS.
He also speaks and blogs regularly on mental health issues, including lecturing at Liverpool John Moores University and regularly produces mental health-related content and consultancy advice for a number of organisations.
He was born in Liverpool and is proud of his Irish heritage. He lives in Merseyside with his wife and daughter.
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Recorded live on 17th November 2021.
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