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We pride ourselves on providing our clients with new knowledge from research. We use our articles, media coverage and newsletters to lead the wellbeing conversation in New Zealand.
What is psychological therapy?
There are lots of wacky movie images of “therapy”, such as psychoanalysts from Freud’s time talking to people lying on couches, or clients and therapists running off into the sunset together (breaking all rules [...]
Preventing vicarious trauma
We recently posted an article about the impact of emotional labour at work – the cost of keeping your “game face” on when the emotion drain at work may be high: http://umbrella.org.nz/faking-it-on-the-job-the-cost-of-emotional-labour/ Soon after, the [...]
Faking it on the job – the cost of emotional labour
Maintaining a calm and pleasant demeanour with customers, clients and colleagues can be hard work, and at those times when we don’t feel calm and pleasant, it can be downright exhausting. For many of us, [...]
Helping employees stay resilient during organisational change
Helping people to thrive in our VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) working world requires innovative leadership and support. This need is highlighted during organisational change, particularly when the changes are rapid, ongoing or [...]
The next step in your continuum of resilience
A common myth about resilience is that it is something that we do or do not have. What we now know is that people’s resilience goes up and down, depending on their current circumstances, the [...]
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