Juggling scarves or smashing plates may not sound like your typical therapy session but for Honora Jenkins, it offers the ideal way for kids, and adults, to feel engaged and connected in a fun, energetic and safe space. The Wollongong-based circus facilitator has been working with Flourish Australia, formerly Richmond RPA, for the past 12 […]
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
Personal story – Stephanie
Stephanie’s beautiful eyes and easy smile speak of a carefree young woman making strong strides in the world. But, it wasn’t always this way. What those same eyes mask is a past challenged by mental illness: she was diagnosed with bulimia at 18, had her first suicide attempt just shy of her 23rd birthday and […]
Eat well, live well
As Hippocrates wisely put it, eating nutritious food has long been associated with good health, both physical and mental. However, with the coming of medicine, much of this old-world knowledge in eating well has been replaced by science. Now, there is a movement to return to our roots and explore healing with natural therapies and […]
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 […]
Meet Jo – Carer, Sister, Aunt, Mother
Jo is a resilient woman. As a carer to her sister and nephew, both of whom lived with schizophrenia, and then to her son, who developed clinical depression and bipolar disorder, she has experienced a road full of personal heartache and despair, and while there have been moments on her journey where her resolve has […]
Domestic Violence and the Workplace
At the WayAhead hosted quarterly network meeting of WayAhead Workplaces our workplace health network in 2016, there were talks from various speakers on topics such as “Improving People’s Ability to Plan for a Secure Financial Future.” And “Learnings in Engagement”. But perhaps most importantly it featured a talk about Domestic Violence and its effects and implications […]
Sharing stories to improve mental wellbeing
As a species we have passed down our history and knowledge through stories, teaching others of the experiences of those who have gone before us and it is this premise that is behind a new group of women coming together to improve mental health and wellbeing. An intrepid group of African women across the suburbs […]
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 […]
