{"id":174153,"date":"2025-11-10T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/?p=174153"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:16:20","slug":"riding-the-mental-health-wave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/news\/riding-the-mental-health-wave-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding the mental health wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Jan Juc Surf Life Saving Club is teaming up with local mental health and suicide prevention charity The Shaka Project to make a real difference to youth in sport.<\/p>\n<p>The pair of organisations will be bringing wellbeing to the forefront at the first carnival of the Life Saving Victoria season on November 15.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Phillip from The Shaka Project will be giving a presentation to competitors about his own personal mental health journey and his mission to crush the stigma on speaking up.<\/p>\n<p>He said he looked forward to imparting his wisdom and sharing his story.&#8221;Our first run of the session last year was terrific, and we will be hoping for much of the same again come November 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This time, the session will be more focused on community involvement in the conversation around mental health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will talk about the ways we can chat with our friends, family and in our sporting clubs to destigmatise talking about mental health.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/IMG_3493_42657.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The two local gentlemen are looking forward to inspiring community connection at the event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really looking forward it.&#8221;Jan Juc SLSC competition manager Tim Watson said it was fantastic to be welcoming The Shaka Project down to the club for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sean is just a wonderful guy and as a club we are thrilled to be having him down to run a workshop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully all our competitors can get plenty out of it and take away some great mental health lessons and tips.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Shaka Project workshop session will be held from 3pm onwards in the Jan Juc SLSC clubrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free to attend and the whole community is invited.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Jan Juc Surf Life Saving Club is teaming up with local mental health and suicide prevention charity The Shaka Project to make a real difference to youth in sport. 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