Mental Fitness - Lesson 9 - examples of mental fitness in everyday life
Greetings and welcome to Lesson 9 of my ‘Introduction to Mental Fitness’ course. If you are new to the course, check out the introductory post […]
Mental Fitness
Mental Health Week @ Flinders 2019 - core messaging
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 […]
Mental Fitness - Lesson 8 - components of mental fitness
Greetings and welcome to Lesson 8 of my ‘Introduction to Mental Fitness’ course. If you are new to the course, check out the introductory post first. […]
Mental Fitness - Lesson 7 - What is mental fitness?
Greetings and welcome to Lesson 7 of my ‘Introduction to Mental Fitness’ course. If you are new to the course, check out the introductory post […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mental Fitness - Lesson 3 - why focus on self-improvement?
Greetings and welcome to Lesson 3 of my ‘Introduction to Mental Fitness’ course. If you’ve not checked out Lessons 1 and 2 yet, I recommend […]
Students at the ASMS challenged me with some excellent questions
Located on the Bedford Park Campus of Flinders University is the Australian Science & Mathematics School – https://www.asms.sa.edu.au/ – a senior secondary school (years 10, […]
Mental Fitness - Lesson 2 - Self-improvement
Greetings and welcome to Lesson 2 of my ‘Introduction to Mental Fitness‘ course. If you’ve not checked out Lesson 1 yet, I recommend that you […]
Mental Fitness - Lesson 1 - Welcome
Welcome to Lesson 1 of my Introduction To Mental Fitness Course. If you’ve landed here and are not sure what you are reading, check out […]
Become a master at self-improvement
Update 9/11/20 – I am revising this guide significantly at the moment, so stay tuned! I reckon all of us are trying to get better […]
Update on Mental Fitness
Update: the course is now available here: Anyone who has been reading this blog, or getting the HCDS newsletters will know that I have been crapping […]
Mindful Yoga report for 2018
Work is already underway, by members of the Health, Counselling and Disability Services team, to organise our wellbeing programs for 2019. In collaboration with OASIS, […]
Do you know your psychological needs?
If I told you that you have fundamental physical needs like food, water, shelter and clean air, this would not be a surprise to you. […]
Self-defeating beliefs - 'I must feel a certain way to write'
A self-defeating belief is an internal rule we hold that gets in the way of our wellbeing or productivity. They typically take one of two […]
7 Days of Psychology relaunches for 2018
One of the joys of being in control of a blog is the opportunities it opens up for shameless self-promotion. That is what I am […]
Become a Behaviour Change Expert: Part 4 - Shaping Knowledge and Confidence
Welcome to Part 4 of ‘Becoming a Behaviour Change Expert’. In this series I am looking at the different skills and techniques that you can […]
A second update on Studyology
Studyology is a drop-in support group for students who want to hone their study skills. This might include getting on top of procrastination, finding that […]
How to eat to reduce your likelihood of depression
The idea that you can prevent and treat mental illnesses like depression with diet is only something I’ve noticed gaining momentum over the last 5 […]
Student Post - Ikigai: A Reason for Being
Ok, so this is exciting! The post below is the first student-authored post to appear on this blog [insert small golf clap here] It is […]
Add 'The Learning Scientists' to your reading list
So I realise you have already got a lot to read, but I really think this one is worth adding to your arsenal. “The Learning […]
Keep Your Cup Full - A Mental Health Week Challenge
Update 23/10/18 – Challenges 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are now all live. You can also get print versions from Health, Counselling […]
Welcome back and update on my mindfulness practice
Hellooooo students, Welcome back from break. It’s October and time to smash out some learning before exams in November. I hope you are feeling excited, maybe […]