Speakers Program

Sharing personal stories of anxiety and depression can have a long-lasting impact on the community. It helps raise awareness, reduce stigma, and encourages people to seek help.

Our speakers are community members who volunteer their time to speak about their personal experience of a mental health condition.
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  • Australia Post
    Australia Post is a proud partner of the Speakers Program. Their support helps us to continue to share stories of hope, resilience and recovery to more people and places across Australia.

Request a Beyond Blue Speaker

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Our Beyond Blue team will review your request
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We will help you find a speaker who best matches your event and audience.

We aim to meet all requests for speakers. However, due to the high volume of requests we receive, we require a minimum of 30 day's notice.
This allows us time to search for an appropriate and available speaker for your event.

Please note: our volunteer speakers are not staff members, facilitators or clinicians.

Become a Beyond Blue Speaker

We are currently recruiting for volunteers of the Speakers Program. If the Beyond Blue Speakers Program is something you might be interested in being part, please submit your expression of interest below.
Become a Beyond Blue speaker

Frequently asked questions

Our speakers assist Beyond Blue by sharing their story to groups in the community.

We receive requests from all types of groups and organisations and match them with appropriate speakers to share their story. By doing so, our speakers help raise awareness and reduce stigma of anxiety and depression in communities throughout Australia.
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  • What does Beyond Blue look for in a speaker?

  • How do I apply to be a speaker?

"It's taken most of my life to learn I am worthy of living"

Emily is a mental health and lived experience advocate, sharing their journey of depression, anxiety and ultimately, hope.

Emily became a Beyond Blue Speaker with the hope of helping people feel less alone, and decrease the stigma around mental health.
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