EVENT: Transform Your Life Forum

Transform Your Life forums is a series of community based tailor-made presentations, seminars and workshops presented to address the full range of mental health issues. Join us to hear Glenn Mitchell, former ABC sports broadcaster share his personal journey of overcoming mental health challenges and bouncing back from depression. For more than two decades from early 1990, Glenn Mitchell lived a life that many envied. As a sports commentator for the ABC, and married to fellow broadcaster, Karen Tighe, he travelled the world covering elite level sport. But all through this period in the public eye, Glenn was a sufferer of mental illness. In late-2006 he finally realized he needed medical help for his condition. Despite having made progress a confluence of events in early 2011 saw him descend into a highly depressive mental state that resulted in him inexplicably resigning his position at the ABC and making an attempt on his own life. It was the blackest of periods in the life of a man who appeared to have everything to live for. With the support of his wife, family, friends and doctors, he was able to fight back from the brink of despair. While he forfeited his dream job, what he gained by way of his rehabilitation was far more important. After overcoming his personal demons and reshaping his life, Glenn now aims to try and prevent others from enduring the torturous path he did by candidly speaking about his own journey.

The Momentum Panel will address questions from the audience related to mental health issues.

Price: $75, price includes refreshments on arrival followed by presentation by Glenn Mitchell.