This blog explains a practical idea that help providers can add to their toolkit for supporting help seekers feel more connected and have...

Being able to live, work, love and play in our own community, not within services, is a basic human right. Most people think about...

There is a lot that we as help providers can do to enhance mental health seekers personal capacity. This includes being clear on our...

What can we can do as a help providers when we are worried about the person we are supporting? Navigating the trickiness of providing...

Social prescribing is a hot topic in Australia now. This is because of the increased burden placed on the health system by increasing...

Stories of Pain and Gain is a collection of help seeker stories compiled by the Mind-Life project. This is an incredibly helpful...

There’s a lot of talk about personal or individual sovereignty these days. I wonder if we truly know what it means. It can be heard...

It’s time to think about Gifts. ‘Tis the season to be jolly goes the song, oh and to give gifts! It seems like a good time to think about...

It's easy to assume that when it comes to psychosocial recovery, more support is going to lead to better outcomes. This is an easy...

Are you a supporter, support worker, service manager or otherwise in a helping role and sometimes feel isolated, unsure, and burnt out?...

3 reasons why your life goals should not be the focus of external supporters High performance teams, executives, entrepreneurs and...

One of the Mind-Life Mindset states that: “People thrive when they can realise their full citizenship within their natural community “...

Mind-Life Project Officer and Resource Developer Sharon Vaughan offers a personal reflection on the Mindset: People have an innate...

The Mind-Life project team gathered together earlier this month to explore the mindsets that underpin the origins of our provocative...

The Mind-Life team interviewed people with a psychosocial disability about their experiences of engaging in community. We asked about the...

Rebecca, the team leader of a local psychosocial support service, took a deep breath as she stepped into the meeting room for the weekly...

Stigma, discrimination, and shame are words we hear in the discourse around mental health. Even the term mental health has a strange...

Molly turned up for her shift and was surprised to find her colleagues all in the same polo shirts – true, they were bright and colourful...

Over recent years there has been an increasing move to name what the community mental health...

What would it look like for us all to have an ACCESS ALL AREAS pass to our own lives , making it barrier free to engage in community life..