{"id":1376,"date":"2019-01-18T08:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2019-01-18T08:50:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:20:27","slug":"welcome-to-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2019\/01\/18\/welcome-to-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just a quick post to kick everything off for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you are back at uni, especially those doing non-semester topics, higher degree research, or just trying to get off to a good start.<\/p>\n<p>Others of you are still kicking back in the holiday period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flinders.edu.au\/\/current-students\/healthandcounselling\/emental-health-project-officer.cfm\">Me<\/a>, I&#8217;m working away making sure that all the cool things we want to launch during orientation week are prepared.<\/p>\n<p>This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the new OASIS website &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/oasis.flinders.edu.au\/\"> https:\/\/oasis.flinders.edu.au\/<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>the Mental Fitness Course, which will be located on our <a href=\"https:\/\/flo.flinders.edu.au\/course\/view.php?id=53137\">Wellbeing for Academic Success FLO topic<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>the &#8220;Bouncing Back after Mental Ill Health&#8221; guide I&#8217;ve been working on with student Clara;<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2018\/12\/05\/flinders-2019-wellbeing-programs-and-events\/\">Calendar of Wellbeing Focused programs and events<\/a> for 2019;<\/li>\n<li>new <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2018\/10\/04\/updating-counselling-service-handouts\/\">Counselling Handouts<\/a>; and<\/li>\n<li>all the presentations we give to students over the Jan to March period as they settle in for the new year (have already given one to 3rd year medical students)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2019 is going to be busy, but fun.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be blogging heaps here on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/\">Student Health and Wellbeing Blog<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be featuring content from other authors: Nurse Tim, Sascha, Careers, the Disability Advisors team.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll send out over 20 <a href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/4A53DD0AB75F8610\">newsletters<\/a> over the course of the year, giving you the tools and strategies to stay on top of your studies and feeling good.<\/p>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"https:\/\/oasis.flinders.edu.au\/\">OASIS<\/a>, i&#8217;ll also be blogging, but with the help of Ali (wellbeing promotion officer) and the chaplains. We&#8217;ll be getting spiritual over there and moving beyond just health and wellbeing to focus on community, diversity, spirituality and understanding the bigger picture.<\/p>\n<p>And i&#8217;ll launch the Mental Fitness Course in March, and keep adding content throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>And there is a good chance you&#8217;ll see me presenting on Mental Fitness or self-care somewhere around the uni. 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