Sessions
Education that starts honest conversations
Every session is built around lived experience, delivered with empathy, and designed to give audiences the understanding and confidence to make positive choices.
Schools, colleges & universities
Pupils, parents and teaching staff
Age-appropriate talks and workshops that introduce the risks of gambling, the links to mental health, and how to seek help. Sessions can be delivered to whole year groups, smaller classes or parent evenings.
Sports clubs
Athletes, coaches and support staff
Specialist education for sporting environments where gambling advertising, team culture and performance pressure can heighten risk.
Conference keynotes
Education, sport and health audiences
Patrick delivers memorable keynote addresses that combine personal story with practical insight, leaving audiences with a lasting understanding of addiction and recovery.
Bespoke workshops
Any group with specific needs
If your organisation has particular concerns or objectives, Patrick can design a session that fits your context, timetable and audience.
How Patrick can help
Patrick combines his lived experience with practical education about gambling, online gaming and mental health. He helps young people recognise risks and warning signs, understand their choices, and know where to find support.
- 1 hour PSHE Talk – Gambling, Addiction and Mental Health Awareness and Protection
- Combination of hard-hitting, personal lived experience story, awareness and education.
- Full-day packages to deliver sessions to pupils, parents and staff or whole school across different sessions
- Staff INSET Talks and Workshops focusing on staff mental health and wellbeing and self-care.
- Parent Talks and Workshops
- PSHE Resources on both gambling and online gaming based on lived experience and PSHE curriculum.
What to expect
- Sharing of personal, real and hard-hitting story / example of living with addiction.
- Providing insightful and impactful facts and figures around gambling and online gaming and why awareness and education is so important for young people, and why this is no longer an issue that schools can ignore in safeguarding their pupils.
- Offering advice in how individuals can spot signs in themselves and others and where that help can be found / signposting help.
- Explaining the convergence between online video gaming and gambling and how one is providing a 'gateway' for the other, as well as raising awareness of the emergence of other markets.
- Information about the importance of proactivity around mental health and exploring healthy vs unhealthy coping strategies when it comes to addictive substances and behaviours.
- Raising awareness and understanding of why young people are so vulnerable, what they can do to protect themselves, and how others can help and play a part.
Not sure which session fits?
Get in touch and we can recommend the right format for your group.