There's still time to get your orders in for awareness lapel ribbons! These are sold in packs of 10, 25, 50, or 100. Shop them now from the QMHW website.

You can also buy t-shirts and homewares from our affiliate store with The Tshirt Mill, but keep in mind production timeframes as items are printed on demand. Any orders placed after September 12 may not arrive in time for QMHW unless they are express orders. To enquire about whether you have time to place an order, please email sales@thetshirtmill.com.au before submitting it.

To celebrate QMHW our friends at Wellbeing are currently giving you the chance to win 1 of 6 Wellbeing wellness bundles. 

There is a post on the Wellbeing Facebook page with competition details. To enter you will need to add a comment on your wellness rituals.

Mulgrave Landcare & Catchment Group are holding BE KIND TO YOUR MIND, which will feature many and varied activities. There will be yoga, horticultural healing (peaceful potting for local environment), face painting, art therapy – group mural, mindfulness craft activities and more!

The Brisbane Mental Health Expo is returning for its 12th year in 2022. Held on Friday 14 October from 10.30am - 2.30pm at The Plaza, Brisbane Powerhouse, the Expo is set to be an exciting and engaging event, providing meaningful opportunities for consumers, services, and the community to connect, as well as enjoy food and entertainment.

The 2022 Recovered Futures Art Exhibition will take place from 8-13 October in Brisbane City Hall and King George Square. Proudly hosted by Richmond Fellowship Queensland, the curated exhibition will showcase 200 remarkable artworks by artists with lived experience of mental illness. Entry is free and all artworks for sale.

There’ll be plenty of action in King George Square, with Artist in Residence and Brisbane portraiture artist, Matthew Whittemore, drawing live in the marquee!

Stay up-to-date with the latest event news - follow @recoveredfutures on Instagram and Facebook.

Take a walk for awareness - from anywhere! If you can't join the event that is set to take place in Brisbane on Sunday 9 October, you can choose your own course for this year's Walk For Awareness. Whether that's on the treadmill, outside in your local community, or with your colleagues at lunch, that's up to you.

The Junction Clubhouse will be holding a public art and storytelling event, 'Awareness through Mutuality, Connection through Expression, Belonging through Place', from October 7-20 at the Kite Gallery in Cairns. There will also be a launch event held on Tuesday 11 October from 11:00-11:30am.

ArtBeat is a music and arts festival designed to celebrate the creative strengths and talents of people on the Gold Coast living with a mental illness. The event involves an art exhibition (running from 10 - 24 October) and a music festival on Friday 14 October. 

The Mentally Healthy Workplaces Toolkit, which has been produced by the Office of Industrial Relations, aims to help employers, managers and leaders eliminate and minimise risks to psychological health and create workplace environments that are mentally healthy. Use the guidance material and practical resources in this toolkit to facilitate positive steps towards a mentally healthy workplace.

Panic attacks, also known as anxiety attacks, can happen to anyone. Around 35-40% of people will experience a panic attack at some time in their lives. They usually last a few minutes to half an hour, and rarely longer than an hour. But the physical and emotional effects may last a few hours. Read about the symptoms, causes and treatment in this article by Queensland Health.

You may have seen that SANE recently launched a guided service for people aged 18 years and over with complex mental health issues. The digital service was co-designed with lived experience organisations and is available to families and carers as well.

To support health professionals referring patients into the guided service, SANE is running/facilitating a webinar on Wednesday 5 October to outline benefits and outcomes for patients, how to refer, and the framework upon which the service is built. 

On Tuesday 27 September you can join the SANE Forums for a discussion centred around Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) ahead of BPD Awareness Week on 1-7 October. BPD is a complex mental health issue that can be very distressing for the person and for the friends, family and carers close to them. In this discussion will be one of SANE's Community Guides and a special guest from Spectrum Health to talk about accessing treatment, stigma and the importance of ‘Seeing The Person’.

The Grow Community has a wealth of inspiring stories of recovery. Their community podcasts record these experiences to help others gain perspective and hope. It carries the core message: ‘You alone can do it, but you can’t do it alone’.

The 'Find help' page on our website links to helpful websites covering 24/7 help lines, gambling assistance, relationships, eating disorders, parenting and more.

If you'd like to have your organisation's mental health resources added to the page, please get in touch.

Mood Food Nutrition is a Queensland based company who offer an evidence based dietary program designed to improve mental health. Mood Food is designed by Accredited Practising Dietitians. They have kindly supported QMHW by producing a healthy catering resource for event organisers. Download the resource here.

The Office of Industrial Relations offers a range of policy, advisory, compliance and specialist technical services and initiatives. In partnership with stakeholders, they strive to achieve the lowest rate of work-related and electrical fatality, injury and disease in the nation, improved workers’ compensation regulatory services and a fair industrial relations framework in Queensland.

Twinkl was founded in 2010, with a simple goal of ‘helping those who teach’. This became its mission and is central to everything done at Twinkl today. Twinkl provides high-quality, trusted educational materials, which are all teacher-created and checked and are aligned to the Australian Curriculum.