{"id":6873,"date":"2025-10-15T13:44:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:29:19","slug":"celebrating-world-mental-health-day-at-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2025\/10\/15\/celebrating-world-mental-health-day-at-oasis\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating World Mental Health Day at Oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>Yeah this event has passed, but it&#8217;s a good chance to alert you to the fact that pop-up celebrations like this are actually quite common on campus and following Oasis at Instagram might be a way to stay alerted to future events.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On <strong>October 9th<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/oasis.flinders.edu.au\/\">Oasis Student Wellbeing Centre<\/a> hosted a vibrant and welcoming event to celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalhealthaustralia.org.au\/get-involved\/2025-world-mental-health-day\/\">World Mental Health Day<\/a>, with the theme of <strong>community and connection<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Students were invited to take part in a range of fun and meaningful activities, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\ud83c\udfa8 <strong>Community painting<\/strong> exploring themes like \u201cWhat does the inside of your mind look like?\u201d and \u201cWhat reminds you of home?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udfae <strong>Video games<\/strong> and <strong>card games<\/strong> to unwind and connect<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udfa4 A <strong>jam corner<\/strong> with musical instruments for spontaneous creativity<\/li>\n<li>\u2615 A <strong>caffeinated station<\/strong> serving specialty coffee and matcha<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf55 <strong>Free pizza and sushi<\/strong> to keep everyone fuelled<\/li>\n<li>\ud83e\udde0 A playful but insightful <strong>Human Bingo<\/strong> game with prizes, encouraging conversations around student life and mental health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know what you are thinking &#8211; why are you telling me about this afterwards?<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t uncommon for such pop-up events to take place on fairly short notice. The team did a remarkable job of creating this day with very little lead in time.<\/p>\n<p>They told me they had good attendance (50+) and felt the day was a real success, bringing together students from diverse backgrounds to celebrate wellbeing in a relaxed and inclusive environment.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who helped organise and attended the event!<\/p>\n<p>If you want stay informed about similar events in the future, consider adding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/oasis_at_flinders\/\">Oasis Instagram<\/a> to your feed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6874\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2025\/10\/line-drawing-oasis-serving.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2025\/10\/line-drawing-oasis-serving.png 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2025\/10\/line-drawing-oasis-serving-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2025\/10\/line-drawing-oasis-serving-1024x256.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2025\/10\/line-drawing-oasis-serving-768x192.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah this event has passed, but it&#8217;s a good chance to alert you to the fact that pop-up celebrations like this are actually quite common on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":6875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11966,4,81,4775,18194],"tags":[20811,19166,20832,20829,4811,11555,18215,20828,20834,20833,20830,5388,1012,4911,18872,19063,20831,12811,8448],"class_list":["post-6873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-events","category-flinders-services-and-programs","category-free","category-important-dates","tag-art-therapy","tag-campus-events","tag-card-games","tag-coffee-station","tag-community","tag-connection","tag-flinders-university","tag-human-bingo","tag-inclusive-event","tag-jam-session","tag-matcha","tag-mental-health","tag-oasis","tag-student-engagement","tag-student-life","tag-student-wellbeing","tag-video-games","tag-wellbeing-activities","tag-world-mental-health-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873","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=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}