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 […]
Well-being
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 […]
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 […]
Students telling students how to look after themselves
Update 22/1/20: I completed the same exercise with some physiotherapy masters students… I’m a qualified health professional. That means I spend large amounts of time […]
What is the deal with gratitude?
I’m reviving an article I wrote a while back. Why? Cause I am lazy mostly. But also, this is a good time of the year […]
Supporting the mental wellbeing of mature-aged university students from reg...
Many interesting things arrive in my various email inboxes. This one concerns mature-aged undergraduate students who come from regional or remote Australia. If that is […]
Four writing exercises that might improve your health
Many years ago I discovered the expressive writing work of James W Pennebaker, a social psychologist from the University of Texas. I am pretty sure […]
The ADHD SuperPower
Forget the stereotypical images from the media of out of control children destroying furniture, today we’re talking with a real Flinders student, James, about how […]
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 […]
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 […]
Play a role in improving the wellbeing of Adelaide youth
The Wellbeing of Adelaide Youth (WAY) initiative is a collection of agencies, businesses and community members who are interested in improving the wellbeing of young […]