A real highlight of this last month was the ‘A Good Day on the Farm‘ workshop we ran for dairy farmers in Gippsland, alongside Mark Humphris of The Milk Road. The focus of this workshop was emotional health in the specific context of dairy farming and the unique challenges that dairy farmers often face.
In preparation for this workshop we interviewed a number of dairy farmers about their lives in and outside their work, and what strategies they use to keep themselves above the line even when times get tough. Their insightful responses were then used to create a special version of our Emotional Health & Leadership booklet specifically for this workshop. This is a model we have used very successfully before when working with park rangers all over the world. You can gain a sense of the real benefits of this sort of approach by downloading a copy of the dairy farmers’ booklet and/or the rangers’ booklet.
