Breakfast and coffee from 7:30 am

Session from 8:00 am

* Introduction to Building Wellness Taranaki

* Mental health impacts of the builder-client relationship

Guest Speaker Dr Bryson is the Director and Principal Researcher at Axon Consulting Limited. She is a Social Scientist with a PhD in psychology. She has been bringing social science to the construction industry for the past six years, with a focus on the mental health of the workforce. Kate firmly believes in the importance of applied research to inform evidence-based solutions to real world problems. She was the lead researcher on BRANZ’s Mental Health in Construction Scoping Study, and Site Safe and BRANZ’s Suicide in Construction research. Kate also led the first evaluation of MATES in Construction New Zealand, a suicide prevention programme for our construction industry workforce. More recently Kate completed research into the mental health impacts of the builder-client relationship.