Bel Ryan Keynote Speaker Conversation + Connection
The #1 Speaker For Organisations And Event Planners Who Want Their Audience Thinking AND Doing. Not Sitting And Snoozing.
When it comes to wellbeing audiences don’t want to be force-fed information – they want to co-create solutions.
As one of Australia’s leading mental health and wellbeing professionals and Founder of Ignite Wellbeing, Bel Ryan is a dynamic and experienced keynote speaker, presenter, and facilitator who fills the room with her trademark energy, colour, and truly unique ability to connect people and ideas through the creative process and experiential learning.
Say goodbye to yet another snoozy, all-talk-no-action presentation – Bel is a master at connecting with and engaging audiences of all sizes, from 5 to 500, with her signature interactive, immersive and transformative keynote presentations.
Make your next conference or team meeting an opportunity to foster trust, facilitate deep conversations, participate in experiential learning, and walk away with new understandings and tools that foster a lasting culture of wellbeing and positive mental health outcomes.
WORKSHOPS AND ACTIVATIONS
The Wellbeing Experience
Using a mix of reliability, energy, and humour Bel helps leaders, organisations, teams, and individuals tackle both common and complex organisational mental health and wellbeing challenges using a blend of lived experience, trauma-informed practice, experiential learning, creativity, and metaphor.
Audiences of all sizes are encourage to embrace their human-ness, share their experiences, and connect with others, whilst being guided to generate practical solutions that foster positive and lasting wellbeing outcomes.
Ideal for: conferences, training or team building events – can be adapted to address the unique challenges of your organisation, team or industry
Bel has worked with us for several years and continues to create unique and fun experiences for our Summit delegates, delivering on our core promise of Inspired Leadership For The Greater Good. Bels talks and activations have provided the space for delegates to reflect, engage, and process challenging situations and subjects and self generate solutions.
Katrina Webb, Newday Leadership
KEYNOTE 1
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes.
In this fun, high-energy, interactive keynote Bel helps audiences recognise the subtle (and not so subtle) signs that someone is not ok. Flipping “Are you ok?” on its head participants will explore how to prepare themselves to ask valuable questions, provide practical support and explore ways to create a genuine culture of positive workplace wellbeing.
Format: workshop, team building or keynote presentation
Bel was magnificent, humorous, energetic, and engaging. Her interactive presentation was thought provoking, inspiring, and brilliantly acknowledged the mental load of caring professionals whilst helping participants generate their own solutions to workplace challenges.
KEYNOTE 2
Check Your Balls!
In this dynamic, hands on keynote Bel guides the audience to consider how to juggle the tasks, responsibilities and expectations they carry so they have less impact on mental health and wellbeing. Using creative exploration and experiential learning participants will work together to generate strategies that tackle the common wellbeing problems of stress, overwhelm, and the mental load.
Format: workshop or interactive keynote
Bel’s unwavering dedication to safe storytelling, combined with her expertise in art therapy and clinical training in mental health, created an engaging evening of meaningful conversation and exchange of wisdom.
Taimi Allan, Mental Health Commissioner South Australia
KEYNOTE 3
Heroes, Villains, and Fairy Godmothers.
In this funny, heartwarming, collaborative keynote Bel asks the audience to consider how the characters and roles they play can influence their own wellbeing and that of others. Through creative exploration and experiential learning participants will gain self awareness, be empowered to make change, communicate more effectively and embrace self directed leadership.
Format: interactive keynote
Participants immediately felt at ease with Bel and were able to be vulnerable while engaging in her presentation.
Megan Down, Local Government Professionals Association
Team Training and Development
Does your team need some skills that help them connect to one another, your clients, and internal and external stakeholders?
Our interactive, engaging training sessions not only consolidate the learning but provide practical applications with a focus on:
- Communicating Effectively
- Active listening, reflective questioning and holding space for those that you work with
- Managing Conflict and team dynamics
- Facilitating effective meetings, programs and groups
- Maintaining professional boundaries
- Self reflective practice, self care strategies and wellbeing practices
- Creating meaningful workshops and programs
Mental Health Training
How are you really?
Learn how to approach someone that you know is struggling – Whatr do I say? What if they say _________? I am scared that something will happen. We will answer all the burning questions and give practical steps in how to have the hard conversations and seek further support if required.
