A note about the use of AI on Better U
There is no doubt that the arrival of AI has changed my workflows. In this post I discuss how AI is used to help create content […]
Random Gareth Pontifications
How AI is Powering My Personal Development (for now)
Will my use of AI as a personal trainer, nutritionist, learning partner, and reflection tool come to a horrible end? Possibly, but for now, it’s going […]
When it comes to mental health, how much should you invest?
You don’t need to do everything to care for your mental health—just something that fits, feels doable, and moves you in the right direction. When it […]
When Insights Make Sense but Action Feels Overwhelming
Read this if you want to get to the end of a self-care article and NOT feel like you need to do anything. I recently read […]
2025 - Let's go!
Excited about 2025? Excellent – nothing to see here. If not, join me in some gentle and kind self-nudging. At 9am this morning, I sat down […]
Your life is eminently storyable
With the end of 2024 in sight, I ponder something a little outside the usual content. In this post, I explore the potential value in seeing […]
All of us at HCDS and Oasis are wishing you a successful path through exams
Wishing all students calm, courage, confidence, good health, self-kindness, and a bit of luck for exam season from the teams at Health, Counselling, Disability Services, and […]
The Student Health and Wellbeing Blog Turns 7 today!
I’m taking a moment to wish this blog a Happy Birthday! The Student Health and Wellbeing Blog kicked off on the 19th July 2017. It was […]
Attention staff and students in creative disciplines
This goes out to those in the creative arts and media here at Flinders. I’m looking to see if I can get a successful mental health […]
I am the eMental Health Project Officer
In this post I provide a small introduction to me and my roles at Flinders. Hello readers! Gareth here. I am the eMental Health Project Officer. […]
ChatGPT and procrastination - no, it isn't about getting it to write your a...
I think Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT are getting to the point where we can have meaningful interactions with them in order to help us […]
Happy New Year Flinders Community - Welcome to 2024
I’m sitting, looking out my office window, with the year ahead of me. I am slowly seeing the campus come back to life and wanted to […]
My end of year message to students and staff (2023 edition)
I set out this year to be a lone wolf. Instead, I found being in the pack was much more rewarding. My end of year message […]
Best wishes from HCDS and Oasis as we enter the exam period!
With the .05% of brain space you have left, that isn’t full of the content from this year, please accept my best wishes during the exams […]
Let's finish 2023 strongly (and wisely)
Welcome back everyone! Let’s finish 2023 strong. This post contains a couple pieces of simple end-of-year advice, but its real purpose is just a verbal ‘high […]
E-tree application in Microsoft Edge
Not exactly the most ground-breaking wellbeing intervention, but it brings me a little happiness each day, and in busy lives, those micro interventions can be important. […]
The Student Health and Wellbeing Blog turns 6 years old!
Excuse me a quick moment whilst I celebrate the 6-year anniversary of the Student Health and Wellbeing Blog, a platform that has allowed me to share […]
Why meditate?
Meditation offers profound insights into human psychology, allowing for a shift in self-perception, improved reactions to life’s challenges, and the foundation for wiser choices and decisions, […]
A preliminary note about ChatGPT and wellbeing/mental health
ChatGPT has been getting a lot of attention recently. I spent some time asking it questions about mental health and self-care. I thought its answers were […]
2023 Orientation design is an encouraging message to new students (and exis...
Some messages are just more elegantly expressed in imagery. The 2023 Orientation design speaks to a way of viewing one’s university experience that I think is […]
Self-care = actions you take to improve your outcomes
Much of what happens to us in life isn’t within our control. But our decisions, choices, actions, attitudes and thoughts do matter and can change how […]
My end of year message to students and staff (2022 edition)
Wishing all readers of the blog a satisfying end to 2022, and a chance to recharge the batteries before coming back in 2023. A few basic […]
Student Health and Wellbeing Blog will be quiet from 16th December to 23rd ...
The Student Health and Wellbeing Blog is a primary communication channel for Health, Counselling and Disability Services. It will be quiet for a while, whilst energy […]
Wishing all students a productive and successful exam period
Overview: A quick note from the teams at HCDS and Oasis wishing all students a productive and successful end of the year. Reading time ~ 1.5 […]