Being’s Annual Recovery in Art Exhibition traditionally a part of October’s Mental Health Month is shifting to a month long time slot some time in 2017. The Recovery in Art Exhibition is all about celebrating the creativity of people who have experienced mental illness, as well as their journeys towards recovery. It has been around […]
中文焦虑症的信息资料
WayAhead has had a number of our anxiety disorders fact sheets translated into Mandarin. These fact sheets are available to download and print.下载这里 Download here
WayAhead Workplaces
Our WayAhead Workplaces Manager, Sharon Leadbetter, talks about how to create a mentally healthy workplace.
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Mental Health Matters
Pilates and Mental Health
The effects of Pilates on mental wellbeing have been well-documented, but a program run by Canterbury Community Mental Health Service is achieving some interesting results by actually making it a part of their client’s treatment. Dennis Magro is a senior social worker at Canterbury Community Mental Health Service. He works with clients who have “serious […]
Arabic Mindfulness
According to bicultural psychologist Hend Saab, the two biggest barriers to people from Arabic backgrounds seeking help for mental illness are cultural stigma and a lack of trust in mental health providers. They tend to seek help from more traditional avenues such as religious healers and traditional medicine first before turning to qualified mental health […]
Small Steps
Some of those parents who don’t think they have an anxiety disorder in the family will come up to me at the end of the seminar and say “you know what, I think my child may have an anxiety disorder.” – Julie Leitch, Small Steps Educator. Small Steps is a program that aims to raise […]
Into the Light
WayAhead is housed in a cooperative of three mental health advocacy organisations called “Collective Purpose” and one of the great benefits of this is that we are able to participate in other organisation’s events and vice versa. One of our co-inhabitors “BEING” (the other is Mental Health Carers NSW) has been developing an Arabic Psychological […]
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The Big Black Hole: Functional Neurological Disorder [FND] / Conversion Disorder [CD]
Falling through the gaps in the system between neurology and psychiatry – The disconnect between Mind and Body Like many people with functional [also known as conversion or psychogenic] symptoms it has been a difficult road to travel. My symptoms began suddenly. At the time I was very active, regularly going to the gym and […]
Small Acts of Disappearance
I couldn’t see myself as one of ‘those women’ – I thought that eating disorders only happen to women who are vain and selfish, shallow and somehow stupid; it took me years to realise that the very opposite is true, that these diseases affect people, men and women both, who think too much, and feel […]
WayAhead Workplaces Celebrates 10 Years of Workplace Health
The 2016 Annual Member’s Forum for WayAhead Workplaces drew together more than 100 people to hear presentations on diverse topics such as the impact of workplace design on mental health, planning for an aging workforce and measuring the economic benefits of workplace health programs. It also provided an opportunity to participate in “research speed dating” […]
