Encouraging you to sign up to Oasis Online
You probably aren’t aware of this (and you don’t necessarily need to be), but the same people that run Health, Counselling and Disability Services (HCDS) […]
Archive Tag: wellbeing
Medibank wellbeing and resilience webinar for students
Given the challenging situation Australia at the moment and in parts of the world (esp. Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia), Medibank have decided to run a wellbeing […]
Some brief reflections on art and wellbeing
One of the ways we can improve our wellbeing is to make modifications to the environments in which we live and work. I’ve talked previously […]
What do I mean by 'wellbeing'?
Howdy readers, Although I rarely admit this at dinner parties, I trained as a psychologist. My training, and much of my working life, prior to […]
New flyers promoting Oasis Centre have been released
With orientation approaching rapidly (might be here by the time you read this), everyone is getting their promotional material ready. The flyers for the Oasis […]
The different domains of mental health
Last week was a crazy busy week. This week is turning out the same to be honest 😫. The bulk of last week was taken […]
The Festival of Now - South Australia's annual mental health and wellbeing ...
Just got another interesting thing in my email (must be the day for it). If you don’t have anything much happening Friday, consider tuning in. […]
An example of a mental fitness workout
I got to spend a really cool hour with some dietetics masters students yesterday. We did a ‘mental fitness workout’. And I thought I’d share […]
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 […]
Wellbeing and academic success
I had prepared some materials on the topic of ‘wellbeing for academic success’ for O’guide training. I thought it made a lot of sense to […]
Plants and productivity
One of the recent Wellbeing and Productivity Hacks sessions I did was on the topic of ‘Plants and Productivity. The basic idea is that embedding […]
I gave up meditation (for now)
I’ve been meditating most days for the last year or so. Here are my stats to prove it. I have been using an app called […]
Pathways to wellbeing
Over the past month I’ve been lucky to have been involved in the delivery and refinement of the Be Well Plan – https://www.bewellplan.com/, a facilitated […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The OASIS Facebook Page
When students think of Health, Counselling and Disability Services (HCDS), they rightly think of the services we offer at the Student Centre (GPs, nurses, counsellors, […]
It's 2020, let's get started!
On behalf of the team here at Health, Counselling and Disability Services (HCD), welcome to 2020! I’m back at the helm of the Student Health […]
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 […]
How does one take charge of their own wellbeing?
I’m one of a number of people around the university currently working with EPSW and the team at the SAHMRI Wellbeing and Resilience Centre (SWRC) […]
The Survey of Australian Wellbeing (SAW) Study: Mapping Australians’ rela...
The Australian Psychological Society is joining with Swinburne University to invite Australians to complete the Online Survey of Australian Wellbeing The purpose of the survey […]
Port Adelaide Football Club - Wellbeing and Resilience Program
If you thought that football teams simply entertained you, and made you feel bad about your own fitness and how you look in shorts, you’d be […]
Science of Happiness Podcast
I’ve spoken previously about the Greater Good Science Center from Berkeley. They produce an excellent website called Greater Good in Action, a repository of techniques […]