It was also my first chance to see the City Campus and I liked what I saw. The teaching spaces are nice to work in, and overall, it feels roomy with lots of natural light.<\/p>\n
A big thanks to Jeremy and Haidee who gave me quick tours of the spaces.<\/p>\n
The lecture that I was delivering was to Criminology students and focused on my standard pet topics: mental health and self-care.<\/p>\n
I deliver versions of this lecture commonly nowadays. In fact, I’ve been posting many of my slide decks here on the blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n An idea I emphasised in this presentation was thinking about university as a gymnasium of the mind. We rock up regularly, push our minds to acquire new knowledge, skills and capacities and do so with the goal of building mental fitness.<\/p>\n Mental health can be thought of, in this context, as how healthy the mind is.<\/p>\n We explored different domains of mental health and then the self-care activities that contribute to good mental health.<\/p>\n My invitation to students was to consider whether an investment in their mental health might contribute to a better university experience.<\/p>\n Thanks to both classes for your attention and welcoming me into your learning spaces.<\/p>\n Slides for the presentation can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Key support links included in the presentation are as follows:<\/p>\n Were you at one of my presentations to 1st Year Criminology students on Mental Health and Self-care? Did you want the slides and links? Included in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":5584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4770,81,108,1147,1980,23,14977,31,71,19082,5875,42],"tags":[18788,19095,18937,19087,19096,19090,18815,19102,19098,19086,19083,3854,5388,19094,19097,19101,19085,18850,19099,19100,3448,19091,19088,18902,19084,19093,19089,19092,18901],"class_list":["post-5582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disability-news","category-flinders-services-and-programs","category-health-information","category-healthy-lifestyle","category-mental-fitness","category-mental-health","category-performance","category-psychological-tools","category-recommended-reading","category-self-care","category-talks-given","category-well-being-at-flinders","tag-bedford-park-campus","tag-character-strengths","tag-city-campus","tag-criminology","tag-distress-measure","tag-domains-of-mental-health","tag-haidee","tag-health-counselling-and-disability-services","tag-holistic-mental-health-measure","tag-jeremy","tag-lecture-delivery","tag-mental-fitness","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-first-aid-training","tag-mental-illness-screener","tag-mentally-healthy-habits","tag-natural-light","tag-presentation-slides","tag-procrastination-program","tag-resilience-plan-development","tag-self-care","tag-self-care-activities","tag-slide-decks","tag-student-health-and-wellbeing-blog","tag-teaching-spaces","tag-uni-profile","tag-university-as-gymnasium","tag-university-experience","tag-wellbeing-ambassador-program"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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