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, [...]
Clinical psychology has traditionally focused on suffering, misery, conflict and mental illness within humans. As a result, the profession has come under scrutiny! As clinical psychologist Martin Seligman nicely states, “We not only want to focus on taking weeds out of the garden, we also need to cultivate and [...]
Even though you have heard it before, it pays to repeat it: We humans were not meant to live life hunched over our devices. And we certainly were not meant to be conversing with a screen full of tiny faces in tiny cubes as a proxy for face-to-face human [...]
Through COVID-19 lockdown, we saw and felt the desire and benefits of connecting with others. We connected with our families, friends, neighbours, community, and work colleagues. We also felt the global connection with others worldwide who were, like us, navigating their way through a very challenging time. We shared, [...]