Mental Health Speaker for Students
Mental Health Speaker Topics for Students
Educator, parent, and student topics are frequently bundled as a program. Presentations focus on coping strategies.
AnneMoss would encourage schools to do in-person for students but virtual and hybrid options are available, especially for programs like her student anxiety workshops. Audiences include high school, university, and graduate students. Get the overview of Education Mental Health Topics here.
Mental Health Speaker Topic for Students #1
Managing Your Mental Health: How to help yourself, a friend, and prevent suicide
(note: if your school or university is sensitive to the word suicide being in the subhead, we can reword)
Audience: For university students, high school students, RAs, sororities and fraternities, and community groups (like YMCA leader’s club).
Time: 45 minutes to 1.5 hours, virtual or in-person
Description:
From coping tips and talking to a person who is stressed, to helping someone at risk for suicide get the help they need, this presentation will empower students with the words and actions to be the bridge to life.
Learning outcomes:
- How to know when you or a friend is at risk and what to say/do
- How substance misuse derails the ability to develop healthy coping
- Times when young people are more vulnerable to depression and anxiety
- How to turn healthy coping strategies into habits and effective life skills
I thought this would really suck. But it was actually really good.
—NCSU Freshman Engineering Student, College Mental Health Event
Mental Health speaker Topic for Students #2
Diary of a Broken Mind: Post traumatic growth after tragedy
Audience: For university students, high school students, RAs, sororities and fraternities, and community groups (like YMCA leader’s club).
Time: 45 minutes to 1.5 hours, virtual or in person. Includes interactive activities
Description: AnneMoss Rogers and her husband tried to find help for their struggling son, Charles, a creative genius and rap artist. Desperate to escape the darkness of his depression, Charles turned to heroin and died by suicide in 2015 at age 20.
How did AnneMoss find healing after the most devastating loss of her life? What strategies built resilience and became useful for managing other issues? And what can students do to support themselves, each other and understand that trauma of all kinds is painful but also fosters growth.
Learning outcomes:
- How stigma played into Charles’s feeling of low self-worth
- The prevalence of suicide risk for those with addiction or prevalent drug use
- How to recognize signs of depression and suicide and what to do/say
- How to find your own path to healing after loss or tragedy
Themes: This presentation focuses more on resilience and healthy coping and includes themes on suicide prevention, hope and healing, addiciton, grief, depression, and anxiety.
“Anne Moss Rogers tells her tragedy and healing with passion and love. She relates to young people in a very unique and powerful way that few adults can. Her message is critical to all, particularly the teenage population. We are extremely grateful for her.”
—Cassie Rogers, High School Teacher, Health Science Specialty Center Coordinator, Cosby HS
Anxiety Workshop for Students
Make Friends with Anxiety Workshop
Audience: For students 15 and over
Time: 45 minutes to 1.5 hours, virtual or in person. Includes interactive activities
Topic Description:
The rise in anxiety gets a lot of press. But what if you could reframe how you think of stress and anxiety and manage it instead of letting it take over your life by holding your brain hostage?
The anxiety itself is not the demon but rather the lack of coping skills to manage it. That’s something we can do something about. Stress, overwhelm and anxiety are all a part of life, and this workshop will help you work with it
Learning outcomes:
- Identify times when you are more likely to be more anxious
- What to do when you feel anxious and overwhelmed
- How to minimize the suffering anxiety can cause
- Effective self-talk strategies
- DBT skills for coping with anxiety
- Taking agency of your own mental health
“About a year ago, I listened and took part in your anxiety workshop. Your words truly left an impact on me and so many others. I’m reaching out to you because I would love it if you could hold that workshop with my team.”
—High School Senior, Head of Youth Outreach Council, Canada
Where has AnneMoss spoken?
School Visit Photos
What are Students saying?
Mental Health Awareness Blog
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