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 […]
Great news! Prayer Rooms are now open – including at Oasis, McHugh’s, Sturt, Tonsley and Victoria Square. There are new rules in place to ensure everyone’s safety along with new opening hours. All the information you need can be found […]
National Reconciliation week ran from the 27th May to the 3rd June – #InThisTogether2020, #NRW2020! ‘Reconciliation is a journey for all Australians – as individuals, families, communities, organisations and importantly as a nation. At the heart of this journey are relationships […]
A reconciliation preparation guide for non-Aboriginal Australians: Part 5 – Reflecting on ourselves and finding a seat
Community & DiversityThis is Part 5 of a 5-part series Matt Pedler – Flinders University Counsellor and Clinical Psychologist Welcome to the final article! This is the part where we get to sort through the mixed feelings and dissonant thoughts and form […]
A reconciliation preparation guide for non-Aboriginal Australians: Part 4 – all the ways to escape
Community & DiversityThis is Part 4 of a 5-part series Matt Pedler – Flinders University Counsellor and Clinical Psychologist Welcome back to my series: A reconciliation preparation guide for non-Aboriginal Australia. Good to have you back. As a quick recap, the 1st […]
Hello OASIS friends! We are pleased to announce that prayer rooms have now reopened. Oasis is following guidelines and principles as outlined by the South Australian Government to limit the ability for COVID-19 to be transmitted and to spread among […]
Did you know that Flinders University provides chaplains to support students? So, what is a chaplain? What do they do? and why would I speak to one? Great questions and we’re glad you asked. A common misconception is that a […]
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 […]
A reconciliation preparation guide for non-Aboriginal Australians: Part 3 – The white bubble….and bursting it
Community & DiversityThis is Part 3 of a 5-part series Matt Pedler – Flinders University Counsellor and Clinical Psychologist Welcome back to this important work! As protests about racial inequality have raged, it seems world events have permitted a very rare opportunity […]
A reconciliation preparation guide for non-Aboriginal Australians: Part 2 – Our Inheritance – Where did white privilege come from?
Community & DiversityThis is Part 2 of a 5-part series Matt Pedler – Flinders University Counsellor and Clinical Psychologist In the first article (Why hasn’t the gap between Aboriginal and White Australia been closed?), we looked at how there appears to be […]
A reconciliation preparation guide for non-Aboriginal Australians: Part 1 – Why hasn’t ‘The Gap’ between Aboriginal and white Australia been closed?
Community & DiversityThis is Part 1 of a 5-part series Matt Pedler – Flinders University Counsellor and Clinical Psychologist Are you a non-Aboriginal person wanting to work with Aboriginal people? Are you unsure how to do this effectively and feeling uneasy about […]
At the most recent meeting of the Oasis team, Chaplain Dave shared a poem called FEAR by Khalil Gibran. It was felt by the team to be a useful way of representing the foray into the unknown that faces us […]
Global Conversations is BACK ! Have you missed connecting with your Oasis friends? Next Tuesday 5th May at 2pm-3pm we will be back – but differently! Join Deb, one of the Oasis Chaplains, for an Online Global Conversation Catch-up. Stay […]
Join Oasis Online for all your wellbeing needs (well, at least some of them)
Community & Diversity, Faith & Spirituality, Mental & Physical Wellbeing, NewsWhen 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, […]
At this time of uncertainty, it’s really important social isolation doesn’t mean we lose social connection! So, while Oasis is closed we want you to know the Chaplaincy Team is still available to support you remotely. The contact details of the […]
Remember that Oasis has an online community as well
Community & Diversity, Mental & Physical WellbeingIn 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 […]
An Oasis of wellbeing at Flinders University
Community & Diversity, Faith & Spirituality, Mental & Physical WellbeingA 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 […]
OASIS has two web presences. There is this website which we think of as our glossy online brochure. It covers who we are, what we do and how you can make OASIS a part of your life. It is the […]
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 […]
On behalf of the team at OASIS, I just want to wish all students and staff of Flinders University a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year. OASIS will be closed from 5pm Friday the 20.12.19 and will reopen on the morning […]
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 […]