Sustaining Mental Health in the Performing Arts: Integrating Psychology, Industry Insight, and Lived Experience
#ASPAH2025
Sustaining Mental Health in the Performing Arts: Integrating Psychology, Industry Insight, and Lived Experience
#ASPAH2025
#ASPAH2025
#ASPAH2025
“Dance not as self-expression, but as self-transcendence.”
#ASPAH2025
“Dance not as self-expression, but as self-transcendence.”
#ASPAH2025
“The space in-between Western Knowledge and Indigenous Knowings, is where most of us sit.”
#ASPAH2025
“The space in-between Western Knowledge and Indigenous Knowings, is where most of us sit.”
#ASPAH2025
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...
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...
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Young people don’t walk around with knives as weapons, they walk around with them as shields.”
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
“Young people don’t walk around with knives as weapons, they walk around with them as shields.”
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
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
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
“We have a culture of off-label prescribing in Australia that’s not found elsewhere.
It’s at best, ineffective, but… possibly harmful.”
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
“We have a culture of off-label prescribing in Australia that’s not found elsewhere.
It’s at best, ineffective, but… possibly harmful.”
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
“The opportunity for regular reflective practice is the cornerstone (of preventing undue stress) and should be a routine part of all organisations.”
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
“The opportunity for regular reflective practice is the cornerstone (of preventing undue stress) and should be a routine part of all organisations.”
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
“Heal the workplace to heal families: Safe, supported staff create safe, supportive interventions.”
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
“Heal the workplace to heal families: Safe, supported staff create safe, supportive interventions.”
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
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
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
Regarding the importance of facilitated reflective practice groups: “we got better at working together.”
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
Regarding the importance of facilitated reflective practice groups: “we got better at working together.”
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
#ComplexNeedsConference2025
#ComplexNeedsConference2025