How to Support Your Favourite Human: Without Being Their Therapist

Talks on Tuesdays: Real lectures in your favourite venues. 45-mins + Q&A with Darielle Bown Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner. This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about. Event Schedule: 6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open 7pm Lecture Starts 7.45pm Q&A 8pm Talk Concludes 8.30pm Event Closes. *Please arrive close to 6.30pm A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go. Your Topic: How to Support Your Favourite Humans Without Being Their Therapist It’s 2026, life is a lot, the world is a lot, humans are dealing with a lot. Wanting to support the humans around us is such a natural instinct… but how often are we falling into the role of trying to “FIX” their problems/challenges/struggles? Darielle will be presenting on “How to support your humans without being their therapist”. Covering ways in which we can really be there and hold space for humans without having to give them the right advice or say the perfect thing to make everything better for them. Boundaries, space holding, unlearning, knowing that you don't have to be everything to everyone...this talk is not only about supporting your people, but supporting yourself whilst doing so. This topic is Darielle’s Jam and is incorporated into most of the mental health education that she facilitates across industries to support people in better supporting the humans around them. If you'd label yourself as the "go-to" friend, carer, family member or even co-worker that everybody comes to for support, to vent to, to confide in, for advice...this talk could offer a different way of looking after your humans whilst also looking after yourself. Your Speaker: Darielle Bown Darielle is an EAP Counsellor, Facilitator and Mental Health Educator with a background in psychology & behavioural therapy. She runs a mental health program specifically for the hospitality industry, a really unique service aiming to make some solid cultural change within an industry that previously has not prioritized the wellbeing of it's people. Darielle’s approach to presentations/ facilitation is thought provoking, authentic and super interactive. She is not a huge fan of "talking at" humans for extended periods of time, rather allowing plenty of opportunities for interaction and some real HUMAN moments & connection.