Tackling the Tough Topics

A step-by step guide to plan mental health and wellbeing events in farming communities

As we recognise that you understand your community and its needs better than any outsider, we’ve developed a step-by-step guide to help plan mental health and wellbeing events in farming communities.

Tackling the Tough Topics outlines best practice guidelines and provides support to organise successful events that foster mental health and wellbeing while avoiding potential harm to vulnerable individuals. 

What’s inside the guidelines:

• A clear structure based on 14 key questions to guide your planning. 

• Practical templates to ensure your event runs smoothly and achieves its objectives.

• Case studies from rural events and top tips that provide valuable insights.  

• Guidance on selecting and preparing guest speakers, ensuring they are well-briefed about your farming community’s unique needs and challenges.   

Use these guidelines to design events that are tailored to your community’s specific needs in a psychologically and emotionally safe way. 

Start planning today and make a meaningful difference in your community’s mental health and wellbeing. 

Your feedback is important to us!

Once you have used Tackling the Tough Topics to plan and run your community event, we would love to hear how it went and whether the guidelines were useful and sufficient. 

Please take a couple of minutes to give us your feedback so we can keep improving this resource and making sure it meets your community’s needs. Let’s keep improving the way we talk about farmer mental health and wellbeing and empowering our rural communities to thrive.