Mindfulness to increase resilience in university students
Mindfulness meditation is very popular at the moment. Maybe I am just attuned to it because of my profession, but I seem to be hearing […]
Archive Author: Gareth Furber
Mental Fitness - Lesson 6 - Why the world needs you to self-improve
Greetings and welcome to Lesson 6 of my ‘Introduction to Mental Fitness’ course. If you are new to the course, check out the introductory post […]
The intersection of mental health and aesthetics
Last week I got to meet with Celia Dottore, the program curator at the Flinders University Art Museum. Spoilers: she’s lovely and generous and kind. […]
A lot of students are anxious, or is it stress?
Every year we review our statistics on the students we’ve seen and the problems/challenges they are dealing with. Year in, year out, the most common […]
The Design Language for Mental Health Week @ Flinders
This post is part of a small series of posts that went ‘behind the scenes’ of Mental Health Week 2019 (MHW2019). The others included early preparations, […]
Mental Fitness - Lesson 5 - Psychological needs and self-improvement
Greetings and welcome to Lesson 5 of my ‘Introduction to Mental Fitness’ course. If you are new to the course, check out the introductory post […]
Wellbeing Ambassadors 2019 are go!
Myself and Ali and Ben from OASIS got to speak to the new cohort of Flinders Wellbeing Ambassadors last night. Whilst applications for the ambassador […]
Welcoming Kirsten to the Blog!
Kirsten is one of our Disability Advisors. She spends her days helping students who have health or mental health conditions/ disabilities that impact on their […]
Mental Fitness - Lesson 4 - Identity, values and self-improvement
Greetings and welcome to Lesson 4 of my ‘Introduction to Mental Fitness’ course. If you are new to the course, check out the introductory post […]
Preparations for University Mental Health Week have begun
This post is part of a small series of posts that went ‘behind the scenes’ of Mental Health Week 2019 (MHW2019). The others included the visual […]
Graduate Program for Students with Disability
I’ve reproduced an email below from the Department of Communications and the Arts about their Graduate Program for students with disability. Are you a student […]