News: tagged with "wellbeing"
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No weekly newsletter will be sent out on Good Friday (15th April 2022). The next newsletter will be sent on Friday 22nd April 2022.
- Join this FREE 5-week course - starting on Friday 3rd June 2022 - to help to understand our anger from The Women's Centre.
Here is a programme for the course:
Week 1 - Whirlpool: To understand the difference between primary and secondary emotions
- Kia ora. Try as we might, it's proving tricky to shake off this COVID thing... it seems like everywhere we look, at mahi, on socials, and even in dinner table conversations, COVID is hard to ignore
- Selwyn District Council and the Mental Health Education and Resource Centre (MHERC) are bringing you this popular seminar presented by Dr Julia Rucklidge - as part of Taste Selwyn
- There are some risk factors in suicide that are particular to older people yet rarely are included in suicide risk assessment tools nor covered in suicide prevention training
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 27th April 2022
Inspired by the story of a grieving man following the 2011 Japan tsunami, the organisation behind the River of Flowers project has installed 12 telephones along the river to talk your worries away
- Kia ora Today's the end of Daylight Saving, which in theory means a Sunday sleep-in, although those with young children may not be so lucky! Whether it's extra time in bed or doing something else that fills your cup, we hope you enjoy your bonus hour
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) describes COVID fatigue as being “unmotivated and exhausted by the demands of life during a pandemic”
- Beehive media release: 22nd March 2022
The Government continues to deliver mental wellbeing support to New Zealanders, with two more digital tools now available for people who experience mental distress
- Kia ora Although it's less than two years since COVID arrived in Aotearoa, it's hard to imagine not having COVID in our lives
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 9th February 2022
Christchurch’s popular Dance-o-Mat is on the move again - after more than seven years in its current central city location
- Kia ora and just like that, we’re heading to the end of January! We hope you managed to slow down and get some good stuff in over the break… like time with whānau, getting out in nature, enjoying a good book and having laughs with mates
- Start the year off right with this fabulous resource from RandomActsofKindness.org. Their awesome 2022 Kindness at Work Calendar is a year-long journey of kindness, compassion, and self-care designed specifcally for the workplace
- Good Stuff is the latest Getting Through Together campaign - encouraging New Zealanders to find the good in every day to help navigate tough times
- Kia ora Let’s face it Aotearoa – it’s been a pretty tough year, and at times it can feel like we’re crawling towards the 2021 finish line
- Dementia NZ has release the following ways you can support your family members living with dementia this festive season...
Introduce the Christmas environment slowly
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 29th November 2021
With Christmas on the horizon Christchurch City Council Animal Services Manager Lionel Bridger is encouraging dog owners to make suitable holiday arrangements for their furry friends
- Kia ora Living with uncertainty isn't easy for us humans - our minds have been trained over millennia to try to control the world around us as much as we can. And we generally prefer predictability and things to remain constant
- Growing Up in New Zealand media release: 2nd November 2021
Children in Aotearoa New Zealand have displayed strength in the face of adversity according to one of the world’s largest surveys looking at the impact of Covid-19 restrictions on children’s healt
- Kia ora Feeling blah? We get it!
It's completely normal to feel a bit low or flat sometimes - and let's face it, living through lockdowns and all the uncertainty and disruption of COVID-19 doesn't make things any easier
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission media release: 28th October 2021
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission (the Commission) has today released its independent report into the progress of the "Access and Choice Programme" being developed and implem
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