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Practical mental health and wellbeing support for staff and students.
Lived experience talks, trauma informed training, and mentoring for Australian schools. Real talk that connects with a Year 9 assembly and a pastoral leadership team alike.
Schools carry a double duty of care: to students and to staff.
Young people are under real strain, and schools are on the front line. Suicide is the leading cause of death for Australians aged 14 to 45. Your students need adults who know how to spot the signs, start the conversation and respond well.
Your staff carry that weight every day. Teachers and school staff are employees too, so the same psychosocial safety duties that apply to every Australian workplace apply to your school. Workload, emotional load and exposure to distress are genuine psychosocial hazards.
Staff wellbeing underpins student wellbeing. You cannot pour from an empty cup.
The compliance picture has shifted as well. Victoria's psychological health regulations took effect on 1 December 2025, and in NSW, from 1 July 2026, the Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work Code of Practice becomes an enforceable benchmark for employers, schools included.
Mental Mate supports both sides of your school: practical skills for staff, real conversations for students, and mentoring that keeps young people connected.
At home in a school hall and a staff room.
Jodi works inside the education and youth sector every week, not just as a guest speaker who visits once.
Inspiring Brighter Futures
Jodi is Head of Wellbeing and a facilitator at IBFF, and can connect your school with its youth mentoring programs.
LIVIN
As a Senior Facilitator for LIVIN, Jodi has presented to more than 80 school groups over the last four years.
Aquinas College
Delivered trauma informed training to the pastoral leadership team, through Mental Mate.
Support for the whole school community.
From a single student assembly to an ongoing program for staff and leaders. Every format is tailored to your school.
Student wellbeing talks and assemblies
Lived experience, high impact and age appropriate. The kind of honest story that gets a hall full of teenagers to actually listen.
Trauma informed training
Practical, trauma informed skills for the staff who hold the hardest conversations. Delivered to Aquinas College's pastoral leadership team.
Staff mental health awareness and skills
Mental Health Awareness and Mental Health Essentials for Teams, in plain language your staff will actually use.
Leader capability microcredential
Lead Mental Health and Manage Psychosocial Risks. Your leaders finish with a Certificate of Completion and a Microcredential Medallion, and the skills to support staff and meet your duties.
Coaching and mentoring
One on one and small group coaching and mentoring, to build confidence and steady the people who carry your wellbeing load.
Student mentoring with IBFF
Connect your school with Inspiring Brighter Futures mentoring programs, to keep young people supported and connected beyond the classroom.
Why Jodi lands where clinical or generic providers do not.
Most wellbeing sessions are either too clinical to connect, or too generic to stick. Jodi is neither. He speaks from lived experience of depression, anxiety and addiction, so a room of students or staff leans in rather than switches off.
He is a trained facilitator and professional speaker, not a clinician, which means sessions are real, practical and human, never a lecture. And he works inside education and youth wellbeing every week, as Head of Wellbeing at Inspiring Brighter Futures and a Senior Facilitator for LIVIN. He understands schools from the inside, not just as a visiting guest.
Inside the sector
Head of Wellbeing at IBFF and a Senior Facilitator for LIVIN. This is his world, not a side gig.
Practical and engaging
Interactive, real and age appropriate. Built to drive action, not to tick a box.
Both sides of the school
Support for staff and students, plus mentoring that keeps young people connected.
What people say after the room clears.
The content was presented in a way where the key takeaways were easily remembered. It wasn't too heavy but rather practical and allowed for immediate action taking.Jemma Eaton, Co-Owner and Director, Purple Playground
An insightful and practical session that strengthened our pastoral leaders’ understanding of trauma-informed practice and gave us useful strategies to better support our students.”Pastoral Leaders, Aquinas College
Thank you for all of your work with our students. The feedback we receive is amazing. We look forward to having Onwards & Upwards return each term.Head of Wellbeing South East QLD High School
About Jodi Brown.
Jodi Brown is the founder and CEO of Mental Mate. For years he battled depression, anxiety and addiction while outwardly succeeding, until honest conversations and practical help turned his life around. He now turns that lived experience into wellbeing work that gets through to people.
Jodi is Head of Wellbeing and a facilitator at Inspiring Brighter Futures, and a Senior Facilitator for LIVIN, where he has presented to more than 80 school groups over the last four years. He has trained and presented to more than 14,000 people, and he is a trained facilitator and professional speaker, not a clinician.
He makes mental health practical, not preachy, whether he is in front of a Year 9 cohort or a pastoral care team, and he does it in language every room understands.
Send EnquiryLet's make wellbeing practical for your school.
Book a short discovery call and we will map out what a talk, a training day or a mentoring program could look like for your students and staff. Or book Jodi to speak at your next assembly or staff day.
Prefer to talk now? Call 0421 750 353.