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 […]
A student who regularly tunes into the Student Health and Wellbeing Blog sent me this interesting question/comment. ‘hi Dr G, Sunday musings about urgent and/or important work and wondering if you might consider a word or two on this in […]
Back when the Student Health and Wellbeing Blog first started, I did a series on Preparing for Exams. I took some time to revisit those posts today, knowing that exams are just around the corner (starting June 22nd). It is […]
I graduated from Flinders University in 2007 with my psychology degree. I then went to work primarily as a ‘researcher for hire’ in the area of child and adolescent mental health. I worked on a lot of cool projects but […]
Each week we have a team of student volunteers who assist at the Flinders Community Market. One reliable and forward thinking volunteer decided to make the free vegetables sustainably free by planting the seeds from the watermelon and potatoes in […]
If you’ve met me and heard me talk about Mental Fitness, you will know that I am a big proponent of self-improvement. I think a focus on trying to make yourself better in some way, shape or form is central to […]
Mindfulness meditation is very popular at the moment. Maybe I am just attuned to it because of my profession, but I seem to be hearing about it everywhere. It is touted as a cure for everything: negative mood, lack of […]
As indicated in a previous post, we are celebrating Mental Health Week here at Flinders from the 29th April to the 3rd May. Preparations are well underway, involving staff from FUSA, OASIS and Health, Counselling and Disability Services. I asked […]
Myself and Ali and Ben from OASIS got to speak to the new cohort of Flinders Wellbeing Ambassadors last night. Whilst applications for the ambassador roles are now closed, you can learn a bit more about the program from this […]
I was fortunate to be able to sit in this morning on a meeting between OASIS and FUSA representatives who are putting together the program and materials for University Mental Health Week (29th April to 3rd May). I’m not much […]
Howdy all. I got this sent to me by one of the Disability Advisors. Good Afternoon Everyone, We are pleased to let you know that consultation on the inaugural State Disability Inclusion Plan is now underway! The State Disability Inclusion […]
If you have been at Oasis on a Thursday around midday, you will see a trail of people waiting for the Flinders Community Market to open. I liken this to the Boxing Day sales, where I announce the Market open […]
Over on the Student Health and Wellbeing Blog, and also in the Wellbeing for Academic Success FLO topic, I have started posting Lessons from my ‘Introduction to Mental Fitness Course’. At the time of writing, Lessons 1 and 2 are […]
This is a repost from an article I wrote on the Student Health and Wellbeing Blog – www.flinders.edu.au/studenthealth I reckon all of us are trying to get better in some way, shape or form. It might be that we are […]
The university year is about to kick off! Whether you are a new student or coming back for 2019, there are things you can do to ensure 2019 gets off to the best start possible. We’ve tried to summarise a […]
I spend a lot of time writing and talking about mental wellbeing. A lot of the strategies I talk about make the basic assumption that your basic needs of food, water, shelter, clothing and clean air are already being met. […]
Helloo OASIS peeps. I just finished writing an article over on the Student Health and Wellbeing Blog. In it I look at the 9 lessons learned from studying the oldest and healthiest communities in the world. These communities are called […]
Thread Together delivers new, good quality clothing and shoes to people in our community who are doing it tough. And as uni students, many of you are doing it tough, so the Thread Together van is visiting Flinders! One of the […]