{"id":2970,"date":"2020-08-31T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T01:00:25","slug":"mental-fitness-workshop-first-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2020\/08\/31\/mental-fitness-workshop-first-date-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Fitness Workshop first date announced."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first Mental Fitness Workshop I&#8217;ve ever run has been announced for the <strong>8th September from 6.30pm to 8.00pm <\/strong>(yep, after-hours).<\/p>\n<p>You can book via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/mental-fitness-workshop-tickets-118416273261\">Eventbrite<\/a>. There are limited places (50), so get in quickly if you want to attend. No cost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/mental-fitness-workshop-tickets-118416273261\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/mental-fitness-workshop-tickets-118416273261<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Details of the workshop are:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>What is it?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 90-minute workshop with me (Dr Gareth Furber from Health, Counselling and Disability Services) in which I will give you a blueprint or framework for self-development and self-improvement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Who is it for?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone who is interested in making improvements in their lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone who wants to understand the tangible steps one takes to make improvements in their lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone interested in personal psychology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone in a helping profession that wants a model not only for their own mental health but to assist others in theirs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone working on their physical fitness who\u2019d like to know how similar principles apply to mental fitness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone dealing with mental ill health<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone interested in forming good habits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone working in a high pressure or high stress setting and wants tools for understanding how to be more resilient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>What I think you\u2019ll get out of it<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An understanding of mental fitness and how to build it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An understanding of why it might be important for you to build mental fitness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An awareness of the parts of your life where you might make improvements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Experience of different mental fitness \u2018workouts\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An understanding of habit formation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An appreciation of the fact that mental fitness can be built without necessarily investing a huge amount of time or effort.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>What is involved in the session?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ve packed a lot of content into the 90 minutes, so expect it to be fast-paced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first lot of workshops will be delivered online via Collaborate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are individual reflection exercises throughout the workshop that you\u2019ll be invited to do. Some sharing of your experiences will be possible during the session (in the group chat) but there won\u2019t be a lot of interaction between participants in this workshop. We\u2019ll look at making more interactive versions of this workshop soon \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Can you get Horizon points?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yep &#8211; 10 of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The first Mental Fitness Workshop I&#8217;ve ever run has been announced for the 8th September from 6.30pm to 8.00pm (yep, after-hours). 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