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DROPPED!

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Run for a reason!

Wellbeing / BY Anna Christophorou

Run for a reason!

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Anna Christophorou CEO of Speedfreaks running for recovery, wants us to run for a reason.Run to remember. Run to celebrate the magic of recovery

Barriers are just details to work around

Wellbeing / BY Zita Rapaic

Barriers are just details to work around

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Zita Rapaic, Managing Partner at Chemist Warehouse Browns Bay says Employment inclusivity is about more than productivity. It’s about dignity. And when you give someone a fair shot, you’re not doing charity—you’re building a better workplace. For them. For you. For everyone.

Zeitgeist mental anguish

Wellbeing / BY Karlo Mila

Zeitgeist mental anguish

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Dr. Karlo Mila, poet and researcher championing Pacific mental health. Reflects on modern times and the impact of zeitgeist in this powerful verse

July webinar

Systems Change / BY Stephen Blythe

July webinar

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Join us at this important webinar Achieving equitable wellbeing outcomes for tāngata whaiora: what we know, what needs to change When: 12

Happy collision

Systems Change / BY Simon Kozak Editor

Happy collision

4 min read

Simon Kozak, Head of Marketing at Ember Korowai Takitini, wants our sector’s hard, fast paced professional work to be better valued

Therapeutic value of freedom

Innovation / BY Rob Warriner

Therapeutic value of freedom

4 min read

Rob Warriner considers what we can learn from the disorienting transformation of services in Trieste – from the 1970s until the present day

We'll come to you

Innovation / BY Scotty Harvey

We'll come to you

3 min read

Scotty Harvey Founder of UOKBRO NZ shares his mobile outreach to support those dealing with isolation, mental health stress, addiction, family violence, or suicidal thinking.

Sense of self

Innovation / BY Ivan Yeo

Sense of self

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Ivan Yeo discusses fundamental cultural differences in how selfhood is constructed.This contrast isn’t just academic—it has real implications, especially in mental health.

Activating health equity

Innovation / BY Dr Cheryl Buhay

Activating health equity

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Dr Cheryl Buhay Clinical Director ,Pou Matanga Haumanu at Pathways New Zealand on ways we can all get active to support health equity

Take their money, deny care

Opinion / BY Rhonda Robertson

Take their money, deny care

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Rhonda Robertson, addiction lived-experience sector trail blazer.says “When we frame people as either ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’ of help, we block the very support they need most.”

Square peg?

Perspective / BY Mridhula Mishra

Square peg?

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Mridhula Mishra, Founder of Empowering Women to Rise into Purpose ,Wahine Tupu Tahi Foundation, delivers a powerful call for holistic woman lead recovery in mental health

Take it from us

Opinion / BY Kent Johns

Take it from us

3 min read

Kent Johns, podcast host, on how Take It From Us answers the questions that matter by giving voice to shared experience.

No Budget for Saving Mothers

Systems Change / BY Sarah Ottaway

No Budget for Saving Mothers

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Sarah Ottaway, Well Women, says the service is weeks from closure without urgent funding, and warns that losing it would leave vulnerable mothers with nowhere to turn.

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DROPPED!

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HORIZON: New Edition Out Now In this powerful new issue, Sarah Helm, Executive Director of the NZ Drug Foundation, calls time on the failed

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