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Perspective / BY Simon Kozak Editor

TheMHS Sydney Forum

2 min read

Mental health leaders, people with lived experience, carers, and service providers will come together in Sydney to address ongoing challenges in accessing timely and appropriate crisis support. HORIZON is the media partner.

TheMHS Sydney Forum

Mental Health bill debate delayed

Opinion / BY Sonya Russell

Mental Health bill debate delayed

1 min read

Te Hiringa Mahara is urging all parties to come together, take on board the voices of the lived experience, whānau and the public and move this Bill forward.

On being sane in insane places

Perspective / BY Rob Warriner

On being sane in insane places

5 min read

Rob Warriner on the relevance of Professor David Rosenhan’s landmark study, “On Being Sane in Insane Places”

INNOVATION

The year that's been

Innovation / BY Tuihana Ohia

The year that's been

3 min read

Tuihana Ohio reveals Moemoeā - A Space for Connection, Creativity and Wellbeing

Loneliness as a health risk

Innovation / BY Sonder News Hub

Loneliness as a health risk

5 min read

The role of social prescribing in supporting whole-of-person wellbeing

More for our neighbours

Innovation / BY Julie Millard AM

More for our neighbours

4 min read

Julie Millard AM counsels the same problem keeps repeating - we are not doing enough for our neighbours

Task vs relationship across cultures

Innovation / BY Ivan Yeo

Task vs relationship across cultures

3 min read

Ivan Yeo asks which comes first trust or relationships, what does the answer mean for mental health?

SYSTEMS CHANGE

Life beyond survival.

Systems Change / BY Shelwin Khan

Life beyond survival.

4 min read

Recovery is relationship, belonging, meaning, identity, and the freedom to imagine a life beyond survival.

The hidden loneliness of getting everything right

Systems Change / BY Nadjela Salimi

The hidden loneliness of getting everything right

3 min read

Nadjela Salimi has this for fellow perfectionists (coming from her lens as a clinical psychologist)

Rainbow mental health

Systems Change / BY Angus Jenkins

Rainbow mental health

3 min read

Large-scale public health reporting shows higher rates of depression and anxiety among gay and bisexual men compared with men overall

Stigma is the system

Systems Change / BY Jenny Mulkearns

Stigma is the system

4 min read

Jenny Mulkearns says we cannot separate workforce wellbeing from mental health. They are the same conversation.

WELL BEING

The Empire of Lived Experience:

Wellbeing / BY Magdel Hammond

The Empire of Lived Experience:

4 min read

Magdel Hammond muses - do need an empire to protect the sanctity of Lived Experience ?

Flow Not Control

Wellbeing / BY Magdel Hammond

Flow Not Control

4 min read

What would it mean to design our systems like braided streams, not as a metaphor, but as a principle?

The library that never sleeps

Wellbeing / BY Jimmy Westerheim

The library that never sleeps

5 min read

Founder Jimmy Westerheim discusses his ward winning and global Life Experience Library, accessible anytime, anywhere.

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