#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Our online events can be watched through your BWF ticketing account, and will be available for viewing from 5pm, Friday May 7 to 5pm, Friday June 4.
Mental health is a critical public health issue. Our panel discusses the impact of Australia's mental health crisis and the importance of accepting vulnerability, building trust, and achieving resilience.
#Artists
Mary Hoang
Mary Hoang is an entrepreneur, artist and the head psychologist and founder of The Indigo Project, Australia’s largest and most progressive psychology practice. Since 2009, she has been pioneering a creative approach to psychology. Mary has emerged as a leader in the humanisation and transformation of the mental health industry. After her father’s death in 2017, Mary turned to art and writing to explore the darker aspects of life – anxieties, fears, insecurities, loss, emotional pain and ‘baggage’ – and how these hold the keys to insight, meaning and purpose. The moving artworks she produced, utilising sound, psychology and installation, informed groundbreaking research by the University of Melbourne. Mary explores aspects of these immersive audio experiences in her book, Darkness is Golden, which will be published by Pantera Press in 2021.
Christine Jackman
Christine Jackman is an author, strategic communications adviser and former journalist. She is the author of two non-fiction books, Inside Kevin07 and Turning Down the Noise. Her journalism career took her from a Brisbane newspaper cadetship to the Federal Press Gallery and a posting as a foreign correspondent in New York. A 2026 Varuna Fellow, Christine is currently writing her first novel, Power Play, a contemporary psychological suspense set in Australian politics.
