For workplaces
Invite a speaker to your team
Our speakers are clinicians, researchers and lived experience leaders from many cultures. They would love to share a meal and a conversation about mental wellbeing with your team, and every booking helps keep community gatherings free.
What we offer
Choose a format
Most loved
Dumpling lunch talk
45 min
- A speaker joins your team lunch
- Dumplings from a local maker where we can
- Conversation cards for every table
- In person or online, up to 100 staff
Hands on
Fold and talk workshop
2 hours
- Your team folds dumplings with a cook
- A clinician guides a gentle group conversation
- Lovely for teams of up to 30
Events
Keynote
30-45 min
- For conferences, all-staff days and Mental Health Month
- Shaped around your audience
- Time for questions and answers
Leaders
Culturally safe workplaces
Half day
- For managers, HR and wellbeing teams
- How culture shapes the way we reach out for support
- Delivered with Our Solis Network
Our speakers
Lived and learned wisdom
We will match your booking with the right person for your team, including language, culture and topic.
Dr Judy Tang OAM, GAICD
Clinical neuropsychologist and co-founder of Dumplings Against Depression. Judy speaks warmly on mental wellbeing, multiculturalism, leadership, ageing, intersectionality and neuroethics.
Niharika Hiremath OAM
Co-founder of Dumplings Against Depression and a mental wellbeing and intersectionality peer practitioner. Niharika speaks from lived experience on culture, identity, youth and belonging.
Clinicians
Psychologists and practitioners from Our Solis Network
Lived experience leaders
People who share their own story with care and training
Community and faith leaders
Voices trusted in their own communities
Cooks and food storytellers
For fold and talk workshops
Why book with us
What makes our speakers special
Qualified
Registered mental health practitioners and trained lived experience speakers.
Culturally matched
Speakers from many cultures, matched to your team wherever we can.
Built around food
A shared meal helps everyone relax and join in.
Gives back
Your booking helps keep community gatherings free.
Make an enquiry
Tell us about your team
We would love to hear from you. Judy and Niharika will reply with a few speaker options and a quote.