Shane Puxley
shanepuxley.bsky.social
Shane Puxley
@shanepuxley.bsky.social
Community Psychologist
Dr Jane Miskovic-Wheatley and A/Prof Glen Hosking

Sustaining Mental Health in the Performing Arts: Integrating Psychology, Industry Insight, and Lived Experience

#ASPAH2025
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Philippa Ziegenhardt: ballet culture is in transition towards meaningfully engaging in dancer wellbeing and “may contribute to dancers' ambivalence about prioritising their mental health.”

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November 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Rukshikaa Elankumaran looks at how the ancient dance form of Bharathanatyam mirrors aspects of contemporary psychotherapy.

“Dance not as self-expression, but as self-transcendence.”

#ASPAH2025
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A/Prof Glen Hosking

“Can you imagine this type of competition in any other job?”

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November 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Dr Nerida Blair’s ‘Lilyology’ framework

“The space in-between Western Knowledge and Indigenous Knowings, is where most of us sit.”

#ASPAH2025
November 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
From Stage to Study: Integrating Experience with Evidence in Health

#ASPAH2025
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Chapeau to Sam Docherty,
who retires today leaving a significant legacy on and off the field.

I wrote this piece after his comeback game in March 2022 (hence the covid overtones):

www.footyalmanac.com.au/round-1-carl...
Round 1 – Carlton v Richmond: An MCG Minute
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July 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Why is burnout seen as a rite of passage?

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July 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
May 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The Choir of Hard Knocks close out the conference with a rendition of ‘Beds are Burning.’

#ComplexNeedsConference2025
March 27, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Phillipa Thomas:

“In every other sector we value the frontline workers, such as lawyers, doctors, etc… Support workers aren’t valued enough. If they’re shown to be good at their job then they’re rewarded by not having to do it anymore.”

#ComplexNeedsConference2025
March 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Dragan Wright:

“We send people off for trauma informed training, recovery oriented training and then we embed them in systems where they can’t enact that training… this systemic tension is causing harm, I would say it’s causing moral injury.”

#ComplexNeedsConference2025
March 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Associate Professor Armon Tamatea:

“Gangs may not follow the law of the land, but they follow the laws of communities… It’s not always about a life of crime.”

#ComplexNeedsConference2025
March 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Dr Lisa Warren: ‘Creating stable bases for young people who have perpetrated serious youth-to-youth violence.’

“Young people don’t walk around with knives as weapons, they walk around with them as shields.”

#ComplexNeedsConference2025
March 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Panel Discussion: ‘Integrating support systems: First Nations leadership on complex needs.’

Jacqueline Gibson: “We reached an agreement with all 16 AHPRA boards that cultural safety is defined by the person receiving the treatment (not the professional).”

#ComplexNeedsConference2025
March 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Dr Danny Sullivan:

“We have a culture of off-label prescribing in Australia that’s not found elsewhere.

It’s at best, ineffective, but… possibly harmful.”

#ComplexNeedsConference2025
March 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Dr Maxwell Fraser:

“The opportunity for regular reflective practice is the cornerstone (of preventing undue stress) and should be a routine part of all organisations.”

#ComplexNeedsConference2025
March 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Tessa Cake & Dr Maxwell Fraser: ‘The outer layer of the care system.’

“Heal the workplace to heal families: Safe, supported staff create safe, supportive interventions.”

#ComplexNeedsConference2025
March 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Trinh Mai: ‘Parallel processes in managing complexity:
How regulators and policy makers can reform systems by learning from front-line service delivery’

“What if your traumatised client is a government department?…Organisational stress is similar to individual stress.”

#ComplexNeedsConference2025
March 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Kym Coupe and Vanessa Hulands: ‘The road home project: A collaborative housing and health partnership.’

Regarding the importance of facilitated reflective practice groups: “we got better at working together.”

#ComplexNeedsConference2025
March 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Dr Tonia Nicholls: ‘We can align public priorities and rational criminal justice system reform’

#ComplexNeedsConference2025
March 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM