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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Gill Townsend
- Dec 8, 2021
- 4 min
'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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Sharon Vaughan
- Nov 10, 2021
- 5 min
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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Sharon Vaughan
- Sep 27, 2021
- 5 min
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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Sharon Vaughan
- Aug 18, 2021
- 7 min
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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Gill Townsend
- Jul 26, 2021
- 5 min
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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Sharon Vaughan
- May 21, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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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Gill Townsend, Helen Glover & Kelly Playford-Veal
- Feb 25, 2021
- 6 min
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, 2021
- 6 min
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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Gill Townsend
- Dec 17, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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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- Jun 7, 2020
- 1 min
Why Connection is Important
Reframing psychosocial disability Connection is so important – a sense of belonging and being a part of something is one of the most...
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