Business Breakfast

Event Details

You are invited to the final Business Breakfast for 2022, proudly hosted by the Goondiwindi Chamber of Commerce.

Join us at The Vic Hotel to enjoy a delicious hot breakfast while you listen to our guest speaker, Chantal Corish, The Rural Psychologist.

Chantal is well-known in our region and beyond as a psychologist and in-demand guest speaker and workshop facilitator, addressing thousands of rural people about improving their mental health and well-being.

Chantal was recently awarded the Central Queensland University (CQU) and Cotton Research Development Corporation (CRDC) Elevate Scholarship to assist in completing a Doctorate Degree (Doctor of Philosophy) examining the "crossroads of organisational psychology and agriculture".

Studying full-time has given Chantal the opportunity to drill down into the culture of farms as workplaces – specifically psychological safety on cotton farms. Little research has been applied to the 'people' aspect of farming, particularly what is referred to as the non-technical aspects like communication, teamwork and decision-making, as well as mental health and well-being and all that it takes to maintain a work life balance.

Chantal will share with us the challenges and some of her initial findings whilst conducting research in this space, or as she refers to it as this "brave new world".

Join us for this valuable insight into the people in our workplace.

Speakers

Chantal Corish
The Rural Psychologist
https://www.theruralpsychologist.com
Chantal Corish is currently studying full-time for a Doctorate Degree (Doctor of Philosophy) through Central Queensland University (CQU). She won a CQU and Cotton Research Development Corporation (CRDC) Elevate Scholarship to help her complete this doctorate which sits at the cross roads of organisational psychology and agriculture.
Chantal holds an Honours level Bachelor of Science majoring in Psychology (BSc (Hons) Psych.), a Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Grad Dip Psych.) and a Bachelor of Business Majoring in Public Relations (B.Bus. PR).
She has over 15 years experience in private and non-profit psychology practice in rural Australia. She currently runs a private psychology practice online and in person at Goondiwindi where she lives with her cotton grower husband and her three daughters. In addition to her one-to-one patients, she established The Rural Psychologist business that runs several different group programs.
Chantal is a mental health speaker and workshop facilitator who has spoken to thousands of rural people over the past one and a half decades about how to improve their mental health and wellbeing. She was particularly active during the drought years gaining funding for and facilitating ‘Flourish’ wellbeing workshops for rural women, and Calm Farmer resilience workshops for male farmers.
In 2020 Chantal graduated from the prestigious Australian Rural Leadership Program (ARLP) having been selected to receive a sponsorship from Cotton Australia, the CRDC and Prime Super.
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