Webinars
DIMHN Webinars: Shared Learning, Shared Impact
At the Design in Mental Health Network (DiMHN), we believe that good design, truly co-produced with the people it serves, leads to better mental health outcomes.
Our webinars bring this philosophy to life, creating a year-round opportunity for learning, collaboration, and inspiration.
Upcoming Design in Mental Health Network Webinars
Ireland Webinar
Free Lunch & Learn Webinar
How can good design improve safety, support recovery, and shape better mental health care?
Thursday, 7 May 2026 | 
12:00–13:30 GMT | 
Online (Teams) | 
Cost: Free
Design is not neutral. It shapes safety, behaviour, and recovery.
How can good design improve safety, support recovery, and shape better mental health care?
Join the Design in Mental Health Network (DiMHN) for this free webinar exploring how evidence-informed, human-centred design can improve outcomes for service users, staff, and services
Bringing together clinicians, estates professionals, architects, designers, and people with lived experience, this session will explore how the built environment shapes care in practice. From early engagement and co-production to retrofitting existing buildings, speakers will share practical insights into creating safer, more therapeutic environments within real-world constraints.
Attendees will gain practical insight from across disciplines on how good design can reduce risk, support staff wellbeing, and enable more effective, compassionate care.
You’ll also learn how to access free DIMHN resources, CPD opportunities, and join a growing community of practice focused on improving mental health environments.
Design in Mental Health Network & Arcadis Webinar
Free Lunch & Learn Webinar
How can good design improve safety, support recovery, and shape better mental health care?
Tuesday 12th May 2026 | 12:30 – 13:30 BST | Online (Teams)
Why Briefing Matters in Mental Healthcare
A well-crafted brief is one of the most powerful tools in shaping mental health environments.
Done well, it aligns stakeholders, reduces costly redesign, and ensures that spaces genuinely support recovery, dignity, and wellbeing. Done poorly, it can lead to missed opportunities, wasted resources, and environments that fall short of the needs they are meant to serve.
At the Design in Mental Health Network, we believe that better briefs lead to better outcomes for people, for services, and for the public purse.
This 60-minute Lunch & Learn webinar explores how to strengthen briefing in practice, with a particular focus on the role of personas, stakeholder insight, and real-world application.
Why These Webinars Matter
Design in mental health care continues to evolve rapidly. The purpose of our webinars is to bring together voices from across the sector, including architects, clinicians, people with lived experience, researchers, and the mental health industry, to share insights, innovations, and practical learnings.
Through live conversations, case studies, and lessons learned, we explore how evidence-based, inclusive design can transform healthcare environments.
Whether it’s shaping new facilities, reimagining existing spaces, or amplifying lived experience, our webinars help connect ideas with action
A Platform for Collaboration
Our webinars are open to Design in Mental Health Network corporate and individual members, as well as the broader healthcare community, who want to learn from best practices and contribute to advancing mental health design.
They also form a key part of our goals to:
- Support our DIMHN members alongside our Design with People in Mind research resource, the Network Magazine, and our annual conference and awards.
- Repurpose and deepen conversations from conference sessions and research.
- Strengthen collaboration between designers, NHS trusts, independent providers and those with lived experience.
- Showcase innovation and celebrate success stories across the mental health built environment.
Get Involved in our Webinars
We are always looking to collaborate with individuals and organisations who share our commitment to improving mental health environments through design.
If you’re interested in co-hosting, presenting, or supporting a webinar, we’d love to hear from you — whether you are:
- Someone who has lived or has living experience who can offer valuable perspectives on co-design and care environments.
- An industry supplier with evidence-based innovation or lessons learned to share
- An NHS trust or healthcare provider keen to present a successful project or new approach to design-led mental health care.
Join us in shaping the future of mental health environments through good design.
Catch Up on Previous Webinars - Resources:
You have come to the right place if you want to watch past sessions and access learning materials from across the Network. We’ll continue to add reflections. Recaps and resources to the below.
Sensory-Informed Design in Practice – The Brook Webinar Reflections
On 1 October 2025, over 300+ professionals joined DiMHN, NHS England South West, and Devon Partnership NHS Trust for a live session exploring The Brook — a newly completed inpatient unit shaped by sensory-informed design.
The discussion illuminated how lighting, colour, acoustics, materials, and co-production can transform inpatient environments into places of dignity, autonomy, recovery, and wellbeing.
Lighting for Mental Health Webinar Reflections
From the Science and Practical Implementation to Sustainability – Free Lunch & Learn Webinar
On Tuesday, 10th February 2026, the Design in Mental Health Network Charity (DiMHN) welcomed a vibrant audience of around 200 professionals and practitioners to our free Lunch & Learn webinar, exploring how lighting in mental health environments can support wellbeing, enable recovery, and address sustainability.
Informed by science, shaped by real-world experience, and enriched by passionate discussion, this session was a highlight of DiMHN’s commitment to evidence-led design for mental health.
Recap & Resources from: Designing for Impact - Social Investment & Mental Health Spaces Webinar
From Funding Innovation to Better Neighbourhood Environments
On Tuesday, 21st April 2026, the Design in Mental Health Network Charity (DiMHN), in partnership with Social Finance, welcomed professionals from across healthcare, estates, local government, design, research and the voluntary sector to our free Lunch & Learn webinar exploring an important question:
What is social investment, and how could it help us invest in buildings and places that support better neighbourhood mental health?
This timely and thought-provoking session introduced new funding approaches, practical case studies, and evidence-informed perspectives on how design and investment can work together to improve community mental health outcomes.