After a frantic few months in 2020 working in the background with a talented group of students, designers and managers (FUSA, Oasis, HCD, Student Ambassadors, Mango Chutney), The Good Vibes Experiment was launched in 2021 and is still active here […]
Back in 2020 when the Oasis Centre needed to close for COVID-19 (note: it is opening again this week), we spent some time building a FLO topic called Oasis Online. The purpose was to provide some of our programs in a […]
In collaboration with Curtin University, a group here at Flinders are exploring what impact COVID-19 has had on student’s access to food. They’re using a Qualtrics survey to ask a number of questions about your food access over the last […]
A counsellor once told me that joining a Toastmasters Club is a great way to address one’s public speaking anxiety (and social anxiety in general). And it makes sense. Toastmasters clubs give you a safe training space to practice giving […]
A Mindful Yoga update from Mauren, fresh from an email she just sent me 🙂 Hi everyone, Thanks for your attendance at Mindful Yoga over the past few months, it has been good to be able to recommence these classes […]
The Community Market is back in Oasis every Thursday during second semester to bring you FREE fruit and vegetables available along with LOW COST pantry items Here’s what you need to know: To attend one of the sessions each week, […]
Mindful Yoga classes are back for Semester 2! Enrol at Oasis Online for notification on how to book. Further information will also be provided on this blog. In the article below, by Maureen (who teaches the class) explains what Mindful Yoga actually […]
I just want to give readers of the Oasis website a heads-up on a cool project that will be taking shape in the second half of this year (2020). I attended an online meeting on Wednesday with some of the […]
When Coronavirus hit and all the social distancing requirements got put in place, the Oasis Centre needed to close. This meant lots of our programs were no longer available as many of them were run at the centre. In response, […]
In a previous post we reported that all programs at Oasis are cancelled until further notice because of the COVID-19 situation. For a community centre like Oasis, cancelling group programs is a challenge to the underlying philosophy of Oasis, but […]
This is a repost of an article I also put on the Student Health and Wellbeing Blog. I’ve been reflecting on loneliness recently and realised I hadn’t read any research on the topic for quite a while. To correct that […]
Chris O’Grady has been our leader here at OASIS for the last few months, while Ben has been seconded to another position. He’s been keeping track of what events and programs we have planned for the first semester and fired […]
A blog post by Chaplain Deborah Jeanes 🙂 In the heart of Flinders University is Oasis: a student Community Wellbeing Centre – a place of calm, peace and tranquillity. Have you heard about it? Students refer to Oasis as “a […]
Update 28/1/20 – The guides have been updated for 2020 and are looking very flash! Now available in hard copy at Health, Counselling and Disability Services, Level 3, Student Centre, Bedford Park Campus Every now and then you come across […]
When SSAF funding was announced for 2020, I was disappointed to see that Eating Well @ Flinders was not funded. Eating Well @ Flinders was led by dietitian Rebecca Greco and academic Carly Moores and was an initiative to “help promote and […]
Ok, I can hear your reaction. You are thinking ‘Gareth, why the hell would I sign myself up for more reading?! I am already doing a university degree‘. And that is a very good point. But hear me out. Reading […]
This was sent through to me by Zoe, the Sexual Violence Project Officer Taken and adapted from – http://www.catalystfoundation.com.au/our-services/lgbti/toward-safe-place-raising-awareness-domestic-violence-lgbtiq-communities/ Towards a Safe Place – Raising Awareness of Domestic Violence in LGBTIQA+ Communities The Towards a Safe Place project has created resources for LGBTIQA+ communities […]
Howdy all, Some news that is relevant for anyone that accesses Health, Counselling or Disability Services Some location changes for the Health, Counselling and Disability Service From Monday 25 November 2019 to mid-February 2020 some of our services will […]
Tension anyone? Come down to Oasis today for a free neck and shoulder massage by a qualified masseuse 🤗 Visit Oasis (J7 on the campus map) to put your name down early to reserve a spot, or try your luck and […]
I just finished listening to a Sam Harris podcast interview with William B Irvine – a professor from Wright State University. He’s written a few books on Stoicism – a philosophy of life that I think has influenced quite heavily some of […]
Over on the Student Health and Wellbeing Blog, I have updated the Preparing for Exams series. It is now a 6-part series looking into various aspects of becoming an exam master: managing exam stress and anxiety evidence based study tips […]
The 10th October is World Mental Health Day. It is the one day of the year to focus on your mental health and the world. The day is a reminder to all of us that mental health is a critical […]
The team at ISS (International Student Services) are putting on a study skills workshop for international students on the 1th October. Details below. The ‘expert’ from HCD that they are referring to is me. I’ll be talking all things stress […]
Chaplain Dave is now holding Meditation sessions twice a week. ‘Join Dave, one of our chaplains, for a simple guided meditation for relaxation, based on the principles of mindfulness. When: Wednesdays and Fridays during term times from 1.00pm to 1.30 […]
I like buying notebooks. The paper kind of notebook. The ones you can write or draw in (although I also enjoy a good laptop as well). Blank ones for drawing – Lined ones for writing – A fresh notebook is […]
Eating Well @ Flinders is a SSAF funded initiative to help promote and support healthier eating and good wellbeing for students at Flinders University. I think their goals strongly align with those of the Health, Counselling and Disability Service, hence […]
Mastering money is one of the best things you can do for your wellbeing. However it is not necessarily something that we are taught to do as we grow up. If we’re lucky, our role models are financially literate and […]
We were very lucky recently to get to work with 4 very talented Flinders film students who put together this short film on anxiety. Starring our very own Ben, the video normalises the experience of anxiety in university students and […]
I think most of us divide our emotional experience roughly into two categories. The first category is feelings/emotions/moods that we want to have such as happiness, excitement, joy, curiousity, love. The second category is feelings/emotions/moods that we don’t really want to have such as […]
Ali (OASIS Events Coordinator) sent me a neat visual summary of all the activity that happened during Mental Health Week @ Flinders. I’ve included it below. This was one of the first events I’ve been involved with where we managed […]