THANK YOU
It's a Wrap! For Now.
We’d like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who joined us at Thrive Sabah 2025. Your presence, openness, and shared commitment made this gathering deeply encouraging. It’s inspiring to see professionals from multiple disciplines and mental health changemakers from across Sabah come together — not just to talk about mental health, but to sustain purposeful dialogue and collaboration moving forward.
Our event write-up is here — and don't mind the photos below - we try not to over expose our guests.
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YOU'RE INVITED!
Sustaining Ongoing Dialogue Among Mental Health Changemakers
25th October | 9am - 12pm | SICC Level 5
EVENT THEME
📅 October 25th, 9am - 12pm
📍 Level 5, Dinawan Room, SICC, Kota Kinabalu
This inaugural event marks the beginning of our mission to build a mental health–centered platform rooted in collaboration, care, and shared purpose.
Whether you're here as a changemaker, practitioner, or simply curious to learn more, this event is about purposeful connection. We promise - This is worth your Saturday.
REAL PROGRESS HAPPENS WHEN DIALOGUE BECOMES COLLABORATION
We believe this seat is yours to fill. RSVP today, and let us know if you’ll be bringing a guest so we can reserve your places together.
Event Highlights / Format
Hosted dialogue — not a keynote
This session is a guided-dialogue forum, not a single-speaker talk. It will be hosted with a clear agenda and facilitated segments to keep things focused and useful. Everyone in the room is invited to participate and be heard — do come with an open mind. Our aim is that you leave with newfound connections and insights.
Open conversation format – every attendee is a contributor
This isn’t a stage-and-audience event. It’s a shared table where your voice matters as much as anyone else’s. Each participant will have space to exchange real stories, insights, and experiences that shape Sabah’s mental health landscape.
Platform to share ongoing initiatives and explore collaboration
Whether you’re working in counselling, HR, education, or community advocacy, this is your opportunity to let others know what’s happening on your end — and discover others walking a similar path. Conversations often lead to collaborations that continue long after the event ends.
Hosted by Thrive Elevate in conjunction with World Mental Health Month 2025
This inaugural gathering marks the beginning of something larger — a continuing dialogue for changemakers across Sabah who believe mental health deserves more than awareness alone. Join us in shaping what sustained progress can look like together.
Who Should Attend
Mental health professionals and practitioners
Educators, school counsellors, and NGO representatives
Educators, school counsellors, and NGO representatives
From counsellors to psychologists to wellness coaches — if your work supports emotional wellbeing, this is a space to connect with others equally committed to elevating the field in Sabah.
Educators, school counsellors, and NGO representatives
Educators, school counsellors, and NGO representatives
Educators, school counsellors, and NGO representatives
You’re at the heart of shaping awareness and resilience from the ground up. This is your opportunity to share challenges, ideas, and initiatives that strengthen your community’s mental health support.
Community organisers and changemakers
HR leaders and workplace wellbeing advocates
HR leaders and workplace wellbeing advocates
Whether you lead, volunteer, or simply care deeply about mental health in your community, you belong in this conversation. Every voice contributes to a more connected and compassionate Sabah.
HR leaders and workplace wellbeing advocates
HR leaders and workplace wellbeing advocates
HR leaders and workplace wellbeing advocates
If you’re building healthier organisations through HR or leadership roles, join others who are integrating workplace mental health and Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP) into company culture, training, and policy.
Thrive Sabah 2025 – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
This session is a guided-dialogue forum rather than a single-speaker talk. It will be hosted by Sheena (Founder, Thrive Elevate) and run on a clear agenda with facilitated segments to keep things focused and useful. Everyone in the room contributes—educators, counsellors, NGO leads, HR/EAP practitioners, and community allies—so please come with an open mind and be ready to share and listen.
As the series grows, we’ll feature guest speakers and panels in future editions. For this inaugural session, the emphasis is on peer insight, practical exchange, and meaningful connections. Your perspectives will inform future topics and formats (without placing the burden on participants).
While some of you have already received a personal heads-up, participant invitations has officially rolled out on the 10th of October 2025, World Mental Health Day — timed closer to the event so it’s easy to save the date and add it to your calendar.
Please RSVP at the following link and we'll send you a confirmation via WhatsApp and email.
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We’re deeply grateful for the wonderful response and interest in this event.
We hope to have you at our next one — visit our main website to subscribe to our newsletter for future updates.
The agenda will be shared 1-2 days before the event. Please check back on our website, look out for email updates, or join our WhatsApp Channel for the latest updates.
👉 Link to WhatsApp Channel (your number will not be visible to other members)
This inaugural round is limited to 30+ guests — small, focused.
The event is fully funded by us, because it feels like the right way to begin.
Our hope is to build something even stronger in the future. For now, we’re inviting mental health changemakers of all kinds — no titles, no labels, just people doing the work.
Invited participants and their +1 guests (including those who write in) attend with all costs covered — no fees.
If you're bringing along a fellow changemaker, be sure to RSVP his/her name in the Google link form, complete with name and phone number so we can get in touch with them.
Please let us know as early as possible so we can coordinate with the venue if the group grows.
- WhatsApp: +60128044934
- Email: hello@thriveelevate.asia
- Beacons: [click here] Easiest way to reach us instantly!
The event starts sharp at 9:00 AM.
Registration begin as early as 8:00 AM.
However, please arrive by 8:30 AM to register, network a little and settle in before the conversations begin — and maybe even catch a moment to network.
Parking is available and charged by SICC at RM3 per entry.
Payment is made via debit or credit card through a car plate recognition system — just ensure you have a card ready at the exit.
Yes! Coffee and tea will be served in the morning alongside a simple breakfast. Light refreshments will be provided as well during our tea break, which is around 10:15 AM.
No lunch will be served, as this is a half-day event.
Yes! If you know someone who belongs in this room, we welcome them.
We couldn’t thank you more for helping us spread the word — because we don’t pretend to know every changemaker out there who should be part of this.
Feel free to share the this page!
This event is shaped more as a networking and community session — a space to connect, exchange ideas, and get to know what Thrive Elevate is all about.
Since it’s not a formal training, we’re not issuing certificates by default.
But if you need one for professional or institutional purposes, just let us know — we’re happy to sort something out for you but please email us at hello@thriveelevate.asia with your request.
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