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May 144 min read
Social snacking to increase NDIS psychosocial participant's belonging in community
This blog explains a practical idea that help providers can add to their toolkit for supporting help seekers feel more connected and have...
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Apr 104 min read
Tips to prevent accidently institutionalising NDIS psychosocial participants
Being able to live, work, love and play in our own community, not within services, is a basic human right. Most people think about...
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Feb 144 min read
Enhancing Mental Health Help Seekers' Capacity: The Vital Role of Help Providers
There is a lot that we as help providers can do to enhance mental health seekers personal capacity. This includes being clear on our...
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Dec 18, 20234 min read
What to do when we are worried about someone...
What can we can do as a help providers when we are worried about the person we are supporting? Navigating the trickiness of providing...
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Sep 15, 20235 min read
Social Prescribing: benefits and cautions
Social prescribing is a hot topic in Australia now. This is because of the increased burden placed on the health system by increasing...
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Sep 2, 20232 min read
The Trap
Stories of Pain and Gain is a collection of help seeker stories compiled by the Mind-Life project. This is an incredibly helpful...
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Mar 3, 20224 min read
Let's talk about Personal Sovereignty
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...
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Dec 8, 20214 min read
'Tis the Season!
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...
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Nov 10, 20215 min read
Please don’t kill me with kindness! The risk of being over-supported by paid services
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...
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Sep 27, 20215 min read
A Mind-Life legacy: A community of people who support each other to support others
Are you a supporter, support worker, service manager or otherwise in a helping role and sometimes feel isolated, unsure, and burnt out?...
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Aug 18, 20217 min read
My goals are not your business:
3 reasons why your life goals should not be the focus of external supporters High performance teams, executives, entrepreneurs and...
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Jul 26, 20215 min read
Citizen Who? Making sense of full citizenship.
One of the Mind-Life Mindset states that: “People thrive when they can realise their full citizenship within their natural community “...
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May 21, 20217 min read
On Capacity and Capability
Mind-Life Project Officer and Resource Developer Sharon Vaughan offers a personal reflection on the Mindset: People have an innate...
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Apr 1, 20213 min read
Mind-Life Mind Sets
The Mind-Life project team gathered together earlier this month to explore the mindsets that underpin the origins of our provocative...
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Feb 25, 20216 min read
The Cheerleader and the Naysayer
The Mind-Life team interviewed people with a psychosocial disability about their experiences of engaging in community. We asked about the...
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Jan 29, 20216 min read
Ready or not?
Rebecca, the team leader of a local psychosocial support service, took a deep breath as she stepped into the meeting room for the weekly...
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Dec 17, 20205 min read
On Stigma, Discrimination and Shame
Stigma, discrimination, and shame are words we hear in the discourse around mental health. Even the term mental health has a strange...
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Nov 13, 20205 min read
On Uniforms, Lanyards and Keys
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...
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Jul 15, 20204 min read
What's the Difference?
Over recent years there has been an increasing move to name what the community mental health...
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Jul 15, 20203 min read
Access all Areas
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..
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