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Loneliness and social isolation are growing challenges for mental health and wellbeing, while digital technologies are changing how we connect and seek support. This fireside chat explores how digital mental health can foster meaningful connection with ourselves, with others and within our communities.

Explore how California's statewide Soluna platform is expanding access to safe, evidence-informed digital mental health support for young people. Drawing on over 25 years of experience, Kooth Digital Health shares practical lessons on youth co-design, clinical governance, safeguarding, and scaling digital services with impact.

This session explores the difference between authentic storytelling and constructed narratives, and how lived experience, shared in its full nuance, can foster deeper human connection and understanding in mental health. It also examines how digital platforms shape the stories we see, and why reclaiming real, human storytelling is critical for individuals, leadership, and systems-level change.

In this webinar, leaders from Fresh Minds and Tacklit will share how they replaced fragmented systems with a single, integrated digital platform. They will offer practical insights into how to modernise core systems without disrupting care delivery or cultural integrity.

Immersive technologies such as VR and AR are creating new ways to support mental wellbeing by helping people access focused, calming states and enhancing therapeutic experiences. This webinar explores how these tools are being applied in practice, including their design, ethical considerations, real-world implementation, and lived experience perspectives.

Scotland’s mental health system faces growing demand and access gaps, particularly in remote areas, making innovative, integrated solutions essential, and this webinar explores how peer to peer support and Togetherall’s clinically moderated platform are strengthening Scotland’s mental health infrastructure alongside NHS and third sector care.