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Kāpuhipuhi Wellington Uni-Professional Courses

Practical Resilience at Work Umbrella have partnered with Victoria University to offer resilience training to individuals via their Professional and Executive Development program. This course has been developed from best practice scientific research on resilience. It will equip you with practical tools to build resilience in both your [...]

2023-06-26T11:50:48+12:00January 31st, 2020|

Using skills to navigate hard times

Richard’s reflections as the year comes to an end I have worked as a clinical psychologist for the last 38 years. Over that time, much of my work has focused on helping people learn the best skills to navigate through difficult times in their lives. In the latter half [...]

2020-02-24T14:09:39+13:00November 30th, 2019|

Unhook from going with the flow

Andrea’s reflections as the year comes to an end A few months ago, I completed the “emotional agility” assessment by psychologist Dr Susan David, having been a follower of her writings and TED Talk. According to Susan’s research, emotional agility means having any number of troubling thoughts and emotions [...]

2020-01-28T10:32:05+13:00November 30th, 2019|

Breaking the busy habit

Too much to do Not enough time Feeling frantic/overwhelmed Feeling I’m not doing anything properly How many of these comments resonate with you? It’s a dilemma that we are hearing more often, and it seems, more intensely. Many people have described to us how the dilemma of having [...]

2020-06-17T12:05:27+12:00September 25th, 2019|