Mental health webinar for travel writers
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We’ve written about mental health and travel writing before: this industry is not always conducive to good mental wellbeing. That’s why we’re excited that our next webinar with Meera Dattani will be free so we can all have an open, honest and frank conversation about mental health at work.
About the panellists
Greta Solomon is a journalist specialising in mental health and emotional wellbeing. Her recent bylines include Red, Psychologies, Breathe, Stylist and Forbes. She is also a writing teacher and an ICF-accredited coach for writers. Greta began her journalism career 24 years ago, with staff roles at Woman and Executive Woman, before going freelance in 2002. She is the author of the award-nominated Heart, Sass & Soul: Journal Your Way to Inspiration and Happiness and Just Write It!. She also runs a newsletter and writers’ community at gretasolomon.substack.com
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Owen Morgan works as a counsellor and a counselling supervisor in private practice. He also works on a freelance basis with his local council with young people with complicated needs and with a local suicide bereavement charity, and since 2021, he has run a local men’s group. Prior to retraining as a counsellor in his late 30s, he worked the corporate world in sales and marketing. This experience provided insight into how work can adversely affect our mental health and ways of managing stress. When not working, he enjoys yoga, cooking, creative writing and walking in the Sussex countryside.
Lottie Gross is a freelance travel writer, author and co-founder of Talking Travel Writing. She writes for The Telegraph, Independent, i paper, Times and more, as well as penning books for Bradt and Bloomsbury. Alongside keeping her career buoyant, she has had to cope with delivering end of life care, losing a parent, and her own diagnosis of a chronic illness.
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Steph Dyson is a bilingual travel journalist and co-founder of Talking Travel Writing. She’s been published by National Geographic Traveller, CNN, Lonely Planet, Independent, and more and runs Worldly Adventurer, a Latin America travel website. While a clinical anxiety diagnosis proved to instead be epilepsy, she’s subject to imposter syndrome and is still adapting to the realities of a life-changing medical condition.
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Meera Dattani is a freelance travel and culture journalist, senior editor at digital publication Adventure.com, founder of Travel Writing Webinars, and former Chair and Events Director of the British Guild of Travel Writers. She is also a speaker and moderator on external panels about travel writing and the travel industry, and will share tips on managing anxiety when workplace stress can become overwhelming.
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This is the third in a series of webinars curated and hosted by travel journalist and editor Meera Dattani in collaboration with Talking Travel Writing.