Support for our Alumni
We are so pleased to see more of our alumni joining PymConnect in the past couple of months. We have also welcomed many of our Year 12 2021 students to PymConnect.
For many of you who don’t know what PymConnect is…it is a mentoring program Pymble has built for our alumni with the support of Mentor Evolution and MentorCloud, specialists in the mentoring space.
We wanted to build a safe and secure place for our ex-Pymble girls where they can seek and share guidance on career, personal growth and development after leaving Pymble. We believe we all have something to learn, to give and share…whether you have left Pymble last year or more than 30 years ago. We can benefit so much from learning from a mentor, and/or be a mentor to others. We hope PymConnect will be an extension of the opportunities Pymble afforded our Pymble girls, to foster your continued growth or to make an impact in another Pymble girl’s life by seeing them grow beyond the College gates.
Some alumni have reached out to us saying they never received the invitation to join PymConnect. This might be due to the email having landed in your Junk/Spam folder. We have therefore sent another email this week inviting all of you who haven’t yet signed up to join PymConnect. Please check your emails and activate your account to join this vibrant community. You will have total autonomy over the connections and mentoring partnerships you wish to make on PymConnect.
If you need any help or have a question about PymConnect, please feel free to reach out to us at pymconnect@pymblelc.nsw.edu.au or call Katrina Corcoran on +61 2 9855 7304.
Benestar is a confidential wellbeing support service, thanks to the generosity of our Ex-Students’ Union (ESU).
You will always be a Pymble girl and we want you to know that the Pymble family continues to care about your wellbeing, even after you leave the College. This program gives you easy access to wellbeing support when times are tough or whenever you feel like you need a helping hand.
Our Ex-Students’ Assistance Program (EAP) is provided by Benestar under the MyCoach personal and confidential coaching program. MyCoach offers a team of professional coaches trained to assist you with everything from mental health to relationships to exercise and sleep, in face-to-face sessions or over the phone.
Ex-students who access the service will be offered up to three funded one-hour coaching sessions. To access the service, you can call the numbers below and inform them you are a Pymble ex-student:
Australia: 1300 360 364
New Zealand: 0800 360 364
International: +61 2 8295 2292
Benestar also has a wide range of tools, blog posts, podcasts and learning modules available on the BeneHub at www.benestar.com or via the Benestar app. To register for access to the information, simply visit www.benestar.com and go to the BeneHub Login and enter the ID: PLCA and the Token: PLCA01.
All sessions are confidential and neither the College nor the ESU Committee will be provided with the names of ex-students accessing the service.
We know that many of you will already have good existing relationships with your local GP. In the event that you need mental health support, you may prefer to talk to your GP about a plan which enables you to access Medicare funding for six to ten counselling sessions with a Medicare-approved mental health professional. Please know that the EAP offers an alternative path for support, however, should not replace the clinical care provided by your GP and other health professionals.
