From 21 to 25 September, New Zealanders around the country celebrated Mental Health Awareness Week. It was a fantastic five days full of thinking, reflecting, and celebrating our mental health and wellbeing. It was also full of engaging discussions around how we can grow as individuals, friends, teams, organisations, [...]
You’ve heard it before, and you already know it to be true: the people in our lives are incredibly important. He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata. What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people. But how important are our social [...]
Auckland, September 17 2020 COVID-19 has created a unique set of emotional challenges in the workplace, an issue employers need effective tools to support and manage. Tamara Mapp-Borren, Acting CEO of Umbrella says, “COVID-19 has created a whole new work environment, there are great opportunities within this and a [...]
In the current world context, we may feel under more pressure. Dealing with so much new information daily and having to change behaviours and navigate this change at such a fast pace can be exhausting. Some days you feel like you are riding a wild rollercoaster where the only [...]