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Protecting Employees: Australian Employer’s Guide To Domestic Violence And Coercive Control

As an employer, it is your duty of care to create a safe and supportive workplace for your employees. Unfortunately,…

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Tips For Maintaining Your Mental Health During The Holidays

The holidays can be a stressful time for many people. There are pressures to spend time with family, to find…

Antony Malmo

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The Neuroscience of Nature: How time Outdoors Benefits your Brain

As we looked at the straggly bushes in our neighbor’s garden, we wondered if we’d mistakenly assumed he’d tidy his…

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Forest therapy is now in Australia, but what is it exactly?

The evidence is mounting that time in nature makes you happier, healthier and smarter. Forest Therapy – known in Japan as…

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How the Workplace Resilience Movement Lost its Way and How to Save it

The psychological resilience movement promised to emancipate us from suffering and empower us to overcome whatever adversities life threw our…

Antony Malmo

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The Great Procrastination: Hybrid work and the Mysterious Case of the Lollygaggers

Not everyone is thriving while working from home. For some employees, their productivity has plummeted and with it their sense…

Antony Malmo

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I’ve Spoken With Hundreds Of Suicidal People. Here’s My Advice On How to Have that Conversation (And Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid)

If you’re concerned about a friend or loved one who might be suicidal, read this guide to learn how to…

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The Wrong Way And The Right Way To Do Hybrid Work

With the panic of the pandemic fading, employers and employees are trying to settle on a new way of working.…

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How to create a Psychological Health and Safety strategy (you’re proud of!)

John Holt and Nick Watts, our resident Psychological Health & Safety Management experts discuss the fundamentals of building and implementing…

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How to Pull Yourself Out of a Post-Pandemic Rut

2022 is barely three-months old and now Australia is flooding, Russia has invaded Ukraine, and we have no idea what…

Coralie Ponsinet

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Why is Psychological Health and Safety so hot right now?

This post is the second in a series of Q&A sessions with Psychological Health and Safety experts, Nick Watts and…

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What Everybody Ought to Know About Psychological Health & Safety

An Expert Starting Point: Psychological Health and Safety – Part 1 It’s been a long time coming, but thanks to…

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A First Principles Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing Pt.3 Gut Health meets Brain Health

In part 1 and part 2 of this 3-part series we discussed the importance of the right fats and oils,…

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A First Principles Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing. Pt.2 Carbs + Protein

How Carbohydrates and Protein Feed Your Brain In part 1 of this 3-part series the importance of consuming omega 3…

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A First Principles Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing. Pt. 1 Nutrition meets Neuroscience

Over 25 years ago I took a step away from the conventional psychological approach to mental health and wellbeing. When…

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Losing Touch: How Lack of Community Primes us for Conspiracies, Conflict and the Coffin

Take Two Friends and Call Me in the Morning.  There’s a little town in England that’s done a remarkable thing.…

Antony Malmo

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Using Nudge Theory To Improve Health

Generally speaking, a nudge is a light touch or push used to attract attention or point someone in the right…

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Creating a Sense of Belonging at Work: What Leaders Need to Do

During a visit to the NASA space centre in 1962, President J F Kennedy noticed a cleaner carrying a broom.…

Nick Watts

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The Social Prescribing Revolution is Here

Nursing one of his beloved daughters to her death at age ten led Charles Darwin to consider the role of…

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Suicide Prevention Starts With Community

Suicide. Everyone has different reactions when I mention the word. These reactions include sadness, loss, guilt, interest, anger, surprise, concern,…

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Mind the Gap when you Return to Work

Getting back into the office offers an opportunity for us to rethink how we socialise with colleagues and make the…

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What a Car Accident Taught me about Pain and Community

A summer day turned into the scariest day of my life Saturday 23rd December 2017 was a beautiful summer day…

Coralie Ponsinet

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Advanced Listening Skills That Therapists Know and You Need To

Have you ever had that feeling after speaking with someone that they didn’t really hear what you were trying to…

Coralie Ponsinet

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How to Deal with Lockdown Fatigue

How Can We Deal With Lockdown Fatigue? If I never hear the words; lockdown, close contact, primary contact, secondary contact, household…

Adam Carrozza

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Ghosts of a Lockdown Past: Stories of Melburnians in a Post-Isolation World

After seven months of ‘lockdown’, Melburnians are now finally starting to get back to the things and people they love. Many are rejoicing, and…

Shaelyn Camilleri

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Exploit the Powerful Invisible Forces of Ethos and Environment

This post is part of our series on The 5 Evidence-based Foundations of a Mentally Healthy Workplace. What do ethos…

Shaelyn Camilleri

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Empower Employees with Wellbeing Training & Education

This post is part of our series on The 5 Evidence-based Foundations of a Mentally Healthy Workplace. What is empowering…

Shaelyn Camilleri

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Why it’s Crucial for Organisations to be Supportive Structures

This post is part of our series on The 5 Evidence-based Foundations of a Mentally Healthy Workplace. What does ‘Supportive…

Shaelyn Camilleri

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Why Workplaces with a Community Mindset Win

This post is part of our series on The 5 Evidence-based Foundations of a Mentally Healthy Workplace. What is a…

Shaelyn Camilleri

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Why Your Management Team Needs a Strengths-Based Approach

This post is part of our series on The 5 Evidence-based Foundations of a Mentally Healthy Workplace. What is strengths-based…

Shaelyn Camilleri

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The 5 Evidence-based Foundations of a Mentally Healthy Workplace

With frequent talk of “work-life-balance” encouraging more personal time to improve mental health, it is easy to forget the ‘work’…

Shaelyn Camilleri

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Support for Parents of Teens

Parenting a teenager is hard work and can be overwhelmingly frustrating. Long-gone is that sweet child you knew. Now, between…

Shaelyn Camilleri

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How do you Know if Someone has High-Functioning Depression?

Depression. For most people, images of endless weeping in the corner of a dark room following a major tragedy spring…

Shaelyn Camilleri

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Loneliness vs Solitude – How looking inward can bring out our best

In the summer of 1956, a young lawyer was led, handcuffed, into a tiny jail cell devoid of bedding or…

Antony Malmo

Infographic – How to keep your home happy in lockdown

Now that the initial panic of the pandemic has passed and we’re adjusting to working from home, the biggest challenge…

Antony Malmo

Infographic – How to adapt to COVID-19

Emotions are high and it’s easy to worry yourself sick. The world has temporarily changed and so we must adjust.…

Antony Malmo

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Workplace Narcissism and its Effects on the Workplace

Workplace Narcissism and The Effects On The Workplace   Being in any kind of workplace can be both a fun…

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Assertiveness Vs Aggression: Characteristics Of When Assertiveness Become Aggression

Assertiveness Vs Aggression: Characteristics Of When Assertiveness Become Aggression As leading EAP (Employment Assistance Program) specialists, we commonly face questions…

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Child Behaviours and The Demands Of Society On Young Minds

Child Behaviours and The Demands Of Society On Young Minds One could say everyone looks at children and see them…

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