Active Listening: a skill to improve your relationships
Yesterday’s Wellbeing and Productivity Hacks session on Oasis Online was on Active Listening. You can access the recording and slides via the links provided. Active […]
Life Skills
Tips for building resilience
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from setbacks. It is a very useful capacity to have, given that life is full of setbacks. For […]
Coping with the constant stream of information about how to be a better per...
I sit in the mental health/ wellbeing/ self-care/ mental fitness / self-improvement space. As a result I spend a lot of time giving people advice […]
Wellbeing for Academic Success
I recently gave a couple of presentations on the topic of Wellbeing for Academic Success. The purpose of those presentations were to get new students […]
Loneliness
I’ve been reflecting on loneliness recently and realised I hadn’t read any research on the topic for quite a while. To correct that I accessed […]
I'll be talking about wellbeing and academic success during orientation
Flinders is going all out in 2020 on helping new students adjust to life at Uni. In addition to the standard O’week activities, Flinders has […]
How much can you change your own happiness?
So I read this article on the bus home the other day. It is called “Revisiting the Sustainable Happiness Model and Pie Chart: Can Happiness […]
What the hell is the authentic self?
I come across this term a lot. I have been pondering on it as part of a bigger question of trying to understand ‘who am […]
The problem with a transactional view of relationships
Back in 2018 I wrote a blog post titled ‘Is this a helpful way to think about relationships‘. I was responding to an article I […]
The Analog January Challenge
I follow the blog of a guy called Cal Newport. He writes on productivity and digital minimalism. He regularly posts tips for productivity and connecting […]
Become media smart
A mate of mine, who works here at Flinders has become an expert in the role that the media plays in how we view ourselves, […]