Scotland’s Conference on Mental Health Stigma and Discrimination

Register your interest – Shifting the Dial: Scotland's Conference on Mental Health Stigma and Discrimination

Shifting the Dial: Scotland's Conference on Mental Health Stigma and Discrimination, will bring together people with lived experience of mental health problems, community members and leaders, employers, advocates and people who are involved in policy and practice improvement within services, with the shared ambition to end mental health stigma and discrimination through collective action.

Taking place in Glasgow on Wednesday 1 October, the conference will be attended by Scotland’s Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing, Tom Arthur MSP.

About the event

Stigma and discrimination are recognised as fundamental causes of social, cultural, health and economic inequalities, with many people routinely denied their rights because of it.

Shifting the dial on mental health stigma and discrimination will take deliberate, collective and sustained action. So, as we work through the final year of our With Fairness in Mind strategy, the conference is our call to action – putting it out to our supporters, our partners, and anyone else with an interest in making lasting change to join us to explore how we can do it together.

Our programme includes a panel with expert guests, evidence sessions with round table group work, workshops led by the See Me team and partners, and speakers including Tom Arthur, Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing and Billy Watson, CEO of SAMH. The full prgramme will be available to attendee closer to the event.

Book your tickets now and select from the below workshop options!

Stigma watch: Challenging Stigma in the public eye

See Me staff and volunteers will lead a creative workshop on how to recognise and challenge stigma in the media, arts and press. This workshop will look at how stigma operates in society, where it enters our lives and what it tells us about the political and cultural systems we live in

Peer and lived experience leadership: How to influence structural stigma

See Me and partners will host a workshop to explore how peer and lived experience leadership can challenge and change structural stigma.

Intersectional stigma and discrimination: Inclusion of everyone experiencing mental health and illness

Guest facilitator Mahasin Ahmed, alongside See Me team members will lead a workshop on the intersectional approach to tackling mental health stigma and discrimination.

Settings-based approaches to addressing stigma and discrimination: Sharing our Learning

The See Me team will lead a workshop on the evidence we have on setting’s-based approaches and explore what the future of this work will be.

Place based and local area approaches: What works

Guest facilitators will come together to share their experience of taking See Me’s anti-stigma work into their local areas.