In this episode Dr Lucy Hone and Dr Denise Quinlan discuss collective resilience, building wellbeing and resilience in diverse populations, and how to develop the most important skills associated with resilience.This episode was originally rec

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E7- Making space for gender identity and ethnicity at school

Dec 22nd, 2022 34m 19s

S4-E7- Lex Davis, educator and LGBTQIA+ advocate, explains why feeling invisible in your own school makes belonging impossible, why silence is inherently unhelpful, and how using an ‘equity pause’ can be a game changer. Learn how to recognise

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E6 - Decolonising gender identity: Reclaiming Takatāpui for Māori LGBTQIA+ youth - Lex Davis

Dec 8th, 2022 37m 38s

Working out who you are and where you belong is challenging for many young people. For youth from marginalised ethnic groups with diverse gender identities, the challenges are more complex. Intersectionality can result in people feeling cut int

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E5 - Your role in changing the impact of poverty and homelessness on wellbeing Part 2

Nov 23rd, 2022 33m 50s

Even though we live in a country of abundance, many of our people go hungry and lack shelter. Helen Robinson explains how poverty drives social exclusion and isolation, deep shame and mental distress. Helen says ‘the way out and through is in

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E4- Your role in changing the impact of poverty and homelessness on wellbeing - Part 1

Nov 10th, 2022 36m 2s

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E3 - The blind ref sending ableism to the sin bin - Julie Woods

Oct 27th, 2022 47m 17s

The blind ref sending ableism to the sin bin - Julie Woods, disability advocate, has taken on the role of ‘blind ref’, calling out ableist behaviour wherever she encounters it, issuing red cards to send ableism to the sin bin.Julie’s resilienc

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E2 - The school culture building collective resilience - Matt Bateman

Oct 11th, 2022 1h

Denise describes school principal Matt Bateman’s leadership as building a culture of caring, connection, collaboration, and celebration. Learn how Matt’s principal group helped schools navigate pandemic challenges, share new curriculum developm

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4 - E1 - Collective resilience: Resilience grown between us as well as within us

Sep 29th, 2022 26m 23s

Resilience is not a solo game and the environments we live and work in matter for our resilience. We are each other’s environment. Learn how the larger group cultures in which we live, work and play, can support us to thrive, or leave us debili

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - 13 - How we can all jobcraft for wellbeing and resilience

Jun 23rd, 2021 41m 14s

Join Denise as she talks with Rob Baker about job crafting – a way to adapt our jobs to better fit our strengths and skills. Rob shares how even 15 minutes of job crafting in your day made work more meaningful and satisfying for call centre wor

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 12 - Forgiveness and other strengths in coping with loss

Apr 20th, 2021 29m 12s

‘Forgiveness can be important in order to re-build our sense of who we are after a significant loss.’ Tayyab explains that loss is universal and most people recover from those losses over time. When a grieving person blames themselves or som

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 11 - How gratitude can help grieving and living

Apr 13th, 2021 35m 54s

‘The ultimate act of gratitude is to live the wisdom they have given us from that moment forward.’Dr Kerry Howells explains gratitude as a process that connects us to the world through giver, receiver, and gift. She encourages us to notice wh

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 10 - Grief on the Run – a story of active grieving to cope with loss

Apr 6th, 2021 32m 38s

“I wasn’t running away from grief, I was running with my grief”.Denise talks to Julie Zarifeh, clinical psychologist about life after the heart-breaking loss of her husband and son in 2017. Julie shares her experience of active grieving whi

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 09 - An appreciative inquiry approach to loss

Mar 30th, 2021 44m 42s

‘Surrender is not giving up, rather it is opening up to the emergent to what is unfolding’.Denise talks to Dr Neena Verma about the learning and growth that can occur when we are able to accept what is unfolding in our lives, even when that’s

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 08 - When loss is not acknowledged - disenfranchised grief

Mar 23rd, 2021 40m 31s

Denise talks to Mairie Cregan, co-founder of the Feileacain, the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Association of Ireland about the silence around the loss of her two babies that led to her setting up the organisation. Determined to provide acknowl

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 07 - Growth Through Loss and Adversity - Helping through ‘Connect, Care, and Challenge’

Mar 16th, 2021 46m 24s

Denise talks to Rob Fazio, founder of Hold the Door, a not-for-profit that helps people coping with significant loss or adversity. Learn how Hold the Door is Rob’s way of honouring his father’s memory and keeping his legacy alive. Committed to

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 06 - Strategies to support the grieving - acknowledging and supporting individual experiences

Mar 9th, 2021 28m

Denise shares part 2 of her discussion with renowned grief expert Dr Bob Neimeyer. Bob explains why grief is so personal and why we each need to find our own GPS (Grief Positioning System!) to help us live in the world again. He shares strategi

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 05 - Meaning making and grief: making sense of a changed world

Mar 2nd, 2021 18m 58s

After great loss, the grieving have to re-define who they are, make sense of what’s happened, and find meaning and connection in a world that is significantly changed for them. Dr Robert Neimeyer, grief researcher and therapist, discusses with

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 04 - How positive emotions help us cope in life’s most stressful times

Feb 23rd, 2021 44m 27s

How do positive emotions help us cope with our most challenging moments including caregiving for people facing life-threatening illness or bereavement?In this podcast, Prof. Judith Moskowitz, social and health psychologist, shares how activit

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 03 - Learning to live with grief: How love, hope, and those around us can help

Feb 16th, 2021 25m 45s

Denise shares part 2 of Dr Lucy Hone’s conversation with renowned grief expert Dr Tom Attig. Tom offers advice on what to say to the bereaved, the value of rituals for grieving, and the difference between a grief reaction and a grief response.

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 02 - Grieving as re-learning how to live in the world

Feb 9th, 2021 30m 45s

Denise shares Part 1 of a conversation between Dr Lucy Hone and renowned grief expert, Dr Tom Attig, who explains the flaws in the stages model of grief. He shares how significant loss shatters our world and requires us to re-learn how to live

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 01 - A resilient approach to living while grieving

Feb 2nd, 2021 23m 5s

‘Choose life – don’t lose what you have to what you’ve lost’ – Dr Lucy HoneDenise talks with Dr Lucy Hone on how she chose life and resilience after the tragic death of her beloved 12-year-old daughter. Lucy shares how she learned to navigate

Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Working well for Maori students - Melinda Webber

Aug 5th, 2020 55m 46s

Denise talks to Dr Melinda Webber who believes that a lot of cultural responsiveness comes down to manaakitanga – kindness and caring for people as they are. For those who feel intimidated by this challenge, she reminds us that we just need to