Instructor Profile

ROBYN ROTTNGER – PRINCIPAL MASTER INSTRUCTOR

Robyn is a highly engaging presenter and professional facilitator with over 20 years experience. She is passionate about Mental health, and understands the importance of educating all adults across Australia regardless of industry, background and scope. Robyn delivers engaging, fun and interactive courses to the public and to corporate business' and community organisations throughout Australia. Mental Health is Robyn's business and there is no better time to invest in your people with Robyn.

Why does Robyn do this work? Robyn likes to challenge the status quo, through evidence based, practical and down to earth delivery. Which in turn increases the knowledge, know how and confidence of the adults who attend either her face-to-face sessions or online groups. It's the positive change to people's lives which makes the difference. Along with changing corporate and community culture to form healthier relationships with the mental health of their staff. People are important, retention is important, why not learn the right ways to have the conversation to retain your talented staff? If you want a passionate, fun and inspiring instructor, look no further.

Bringing warmth, wisdom and passion to every course. As Qualified Counsellor and Art Therapist, Robyn also has vast experience in Crisis Interventions and Suicide Prevention through her roles with Lifeline, and whilst working in various mental health and aged care facilities, and recovery colleges. These added qualifications in counselling and suicide prevention enables Robyn to facilitate her courses with knowledge and experience in a very practical down to earth way.

Please contact Robyn direct on 0417688236 or email robyn@wisdomiswithin.com.au for a quote for your workplace. Private courses are most welcome.

With over 20 years Corporate and Community delivery experience, Robyn is a highly respected and well known Instructor, and highly sought after.

3 Year Accredited Courses Available – Face to Face

-- Standard Mental Health First Aid - Adults helping Adults

-- Youth Mental Health First Aid Course - Adults helping young people from 12 years of age to 21 years

-- Older Person Mental Health First Aid - Adults helping +65 Older Adults

3 Year Accredited Courses available online by this Instructor. These comprise of self paced eLearning and Instructor led online sessions, in the comfort of your own home and are highly interactive

--Blended Online MHFA Workplace Course (Specifically for the Workplace, Adults helping Adults in the Workplace)

--Blended Online MHFA Community Course (Adults helping other people within the Community, is the Standard Mental Health First Aid exactly but online)

-- Blended Online MHFA Tertiary Course (Tertiary students supporting their peers)

--Blended Mental Health First Aid in the Workplace Course (For Workplaces needing a combination of online and face-to-face learning)

-- MHFA Blended Online for Legal Professionals For those that work within the Legal Profession in Australia

-- MHFA Blended Online for Pharmacy Professionals For Pharmacists and staff

-- [MHFA Blended Online Financial Service Professionals] (https://mhfa.com.au/courses/public/types/blendedonlinefinancialpublic) For Financials Services staff helping staff and clients

Extension Courses of your current certification - available online or face to face

-- Standard MHFA Refresher - Reaccreditation for SMHFA for 3 years

-- Youth Mental Health First Aid Course Refresher - delivered online and face to face, reaccreditation in Youth MHFA for 3 years

Senior Management MHFA - available for your Senior Executives online or face to face in intimate mode

-- MHFA for Engaging Senior Leaders - Now available for delivery online, please contact Robyn direct for private bookings

Specialised Focus 4 hour face to face only Courses

-- MHFA for Gambling Problems

--MHFA for the Suicidal Person

--MHFA for Non-Suicidal Self Injury

Please contact me on robyn@wisdomiswithin.com.au or by phone 0417688236

Robyn’s clients often describe her as “inspiring, warm, engaging, knowledgeable and highly professional”. Please see below for just a few testimonials. Love this work and it's an absolute pleasure to meet all of you.

2021 Face to Face Course Feedback--Corporate and Public Feedback

"Great instructor. Relaxed pace, informative, no pressure environment. I learned new things!"

"Robyn was an engaging and knowledgeable instructor. She was able to give real life examples that helped me to understand the course content more fully. I really enjoyed the 2 days and I plan to complete other courses with Robyn in the future."

"Robyn is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about the course content. She communicated effectively and created a positive learning environment for all attendees - great job!"

"Loved the natural warmth and humor Robyn brought in her presentation style to make us all feel welcomed and comfortable. This enabled our learning sessions to be engaging."

"Robyn is a great communicator with a wealth of knowledge."

"Robyn was an excellent facilitator and gave everyone the opportunity to participate."

"Thank you Robyn for being a caring and knowledgeable instructor. The experiences you were able to share not only encouraged the cohort to do like-wise, but also and importantly deepened our understanding of the topics.."

"Robyn was awesome - very approachable, open and made everyone in the class feel extremely comfortable."

"The instructor was great. Very knowledgeable and her delivery style was really good. I have learnt alot from this session.."

2021 Online Feedback

July 2021 Workplace MHFA Private Corporate Feedback

"Robyn was an awesome trainer and was very engaging. She explained the topics in depth, but also was able to navigate between keeping it light-hearted and humorous as well as moments of seriousness/deep empathy. I learnt so much. I particularly liked the practice case studies when we broke into groups, it solidified the learning for me."

"Robyn was the best presenter I have ever had for a course. she kept me engaged the entire time and just loved her laughter she kept it very light hearted."

"Robyn was fantastic and engaged everyone"

"Robyn was fantastic! She knew and understood the material and was very inclusive and engaging. She encouraged participation and created a safe learning environment."

"Robyn was amazing"

"Excellent facilitation Skills Robyn! Really enjoyed the workshop sessions! Robyn created a safe space for all of us to participate"

Financial Service Professionals Course

"I feel very blessed to have done this program with Robyn, who gave me the space to practice relevant scenarios."

"You were absolutely wonderful. Thank you for providing your time to undertake this course. You were calm, warm and patient. I could not have asked for anything to be done better."

"Robyn was able to navigate the difficult discussion regarding suicide. It was clear that many in the class had some experience in real life and that we, me included, were a little uncomfortable. However, the subject was handled with great care and clarity. None of us were left with any negative feelings."

Online Blended Workplace

"Robyn is a wonderful instructor. She has a calm nature, gave useful feedback, is very approachable and kept focused and on-track with the online element of the course. Thank you Robyn."

"Having recently completed the MHFA course with Robyn, you couldn't ask for a more compassionate, engaging, well knowledgeable facilitator. I learnt so much from Robyn, and I am looking forward to taking my newly learnt skills into the workplace."

"Friendly and very approachable would recommend Robyn Rottinger as instructor to anyone wishing to complete MHFA."

"Very friendly and engaging. I liked the fact that Robyn Rottinger made the course interactive rather than just a PowerPoint presentation."

Online Refresher 2021

"Loved the refresher. Your use of Zoom kept me involved. Thanks Robyn - an engaging and valuable experience."

"Robyn has an engaging style and asked open ended non-threatening questions to try and get us (an online participants) to think and contribute, which can be quite difficult by zoom. She managed this very well."

Blended Online MHFA Community

"Robyn was a great instructor. She spoke clearly, and was easy to speak to. She encouraged personal stories and experiences to be told, and then related them clearly back to the content of the course. This enhanced my learning. Robyn was very encouraging when doing role plays - my least favourite thing to do! And Robyn gave good, open and honest feedback, which is much appreciated."

Robyn is very happy to travel interstate to provide training, wherever your company may be. Robyn is available for Corporate, Private and Community training face to face across Australia.

To meet me, click here to have a look at my video:

https://www.facebook.com/104216450970844/videos/287111635993690

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