Finding purpose in life
The Greater Good Magazine has a good article on finding your purpose by Jill Suttie, outlining 7 activities you can engage in that have been […]
Recommended Reading
Looking for a challenge? - Try the GGSC Wellbeing Calendar
I regularly recommend the Greater Good Science Center Website (GGSC) for those wanting to learn more about how to build wellbeing, based on science. On […]
Learning how to breathe again
I just finished a fascinating book by journalist James Nestor entitled ‘Breath: The new science of a lost art’. As you can probably imagine, it […]
A roadmap to building resilience
Resilience is the belief and capacity of an individual to cope with setbacks and bounce back from adversity. It isn’t by any stretch of the […]
Counsellor Matt on reconciliation between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal Aus...
National Reconciliation week runs from the 27th May to the 3rd June. ‘National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about […]
New Resource for Victims of Crime and Abuse - Digital launch
Victim Support Service and Flinders University are pleased to announce the digital launch of a new resource for victims of crime and abuse: After Crime and […]
Greater Good’s Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus
A resource I call on frequently in the Greater Good In Action website. For the past few years they’ve been collecting evidence-based strategies to improve […]
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 […]
Australia’s Youth driven network for LGBTIQ youth
Lazily scanning through my emails this morning, I realised I had missed this email from one of my team members, highlighting a great online resource […]
Flinders’ new online orientation topic Finding Your Way at Flinders is he...
This is a repost of an article originally published by the Ping! team– Here at HCD we know how important it is from a wellbeing […]
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 […]
OpenMind - online course for developing intellectual humility and open-mind...
So I just finished reading the book: The Coddling of the American Mind – How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for […]
Neuroplasticity and tiny habits
Some days I wish my brain operated like a computer. Having identified a ‘bug’ (e.g. excessive love of chocolate), I could just write some new […]
Coping with climate change distress
In my lifetime the public narrative around climate change has changed. The first I remember of it was concern about the ozone layer because of […]
Some interesting psychology research from the BPS Research Digest
The BPS Research Digest is a blog that is definitely worth following. They write daily easily digestible articles on the latest psychology research and what […]