Wellbeing Of Our Minds Networking He Kupenga Hauora Hinengaro

13/02/2025

This is a great course and a great opportunity to work in a very practical way on improving your mental health

Awakening Joy Awakening Joy – Course 2025 Christchurch Register now for our 2025 by emailing loiscowan@gmail.com Dates: 20th May to 23rd September / 10 Sessions When: Fortnightly meetings, Tuesdays 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Where: Manuka Cottage, 70 Harman St. Addington Enquire / Registration: loismcow...

08/03/2024

Imagineering our way to wellbeing
Not just for kids! Can creativity, imagination, art and playfulness be a vital part of building wellbeing in our communities? Practising for wellbeing – meaning-making, identity, awe and hope. What do creative practices, culture work and experiences have in common with positive mental health and wellbeing?

Understand the wellbeing benefits of creativity in the context of Aotearoa, through the lens of Te Whare Tapa Whā and contemporary mental health promotion.

Hui / Meeting Information
Who Ciaran Fox
What Imagineering our way to wellbeing
When Wednesday 20th March 2024, 9-10am sharp
Where Zoom - Email us for a zoom link to this event:
tehuiraumati@gmail.com

08/03/2024

hmmm. This is really interesting and point to questions about potential ways to understand links between exercise and mental health.

Psychology researchers have used virtual reality to find our brains oscillate with each step – an intriguing finding to better understand how we see the world.

25/10/2023

This is an RNZ interview of about 28 minutes which discusses the importance of human connections and friendships for our health and happiness. It is the result of a study that has been running since 1938!

Dr Robert Waldinger has been studying human happiness and the secret to it for decades. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the the Harvard Study of Adult Development. That study first began in 1938 with 228 Harvard students with researchers collecting d...

18/06/2023

15/04/2023

Next Mental Wellbeing networking event is Monday 17th April Chrys Horn will be talking about community development and mental health and inviting input from others working in community development who come on the call to talk about the kinds of things that they do. Email us at tehuiraumati@gmail.com to get the zoom link.

08/03/2023

Got a minute?

06/03/2023

Our next networking event will feature Molly Owens and Dr Lizzie Loudon, both of whom work in primary healthcare. They will talk to us about some of the new initiatives that can help people who need support to improve or maintain their mental wellbeing.
Join us on Monday 20th March at 9.00 am via Zoom.
Email tehuiraumati "at" gmail.com and we will send you the link for the event.
Our networking events are for people working in any aspect of wellbeing in Christchurch and surrounding areas. They happen on the third Monday of each month. Anyone interested to attend is welcome.

15/02/2023

This is for everyone out there who is struggling today.

Whether you are experiencing loneliness, depression, heartbreak or sadness.

Or whether you've been in alot of pain.

I hope you can take a moment from whatever it you're doing right now.

And do this brief loving-kindness practice with me okay?

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Let's take a moment to close our eyes and get comfortable.

Then place a hand gently over your heart and feel yourself breathe.

With each slow breath, feel the air carress you from the inside.

And the warmth of your hand emanating into your heart.

Then imagine your heart like a flower bud, and visualise it slowly opening, just like how a flower opens up to a warm sun.

Next, gently ponder this questions below:

"What is it I need right now?"

"What would I like to hear from somebody else?"

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It could be a need for love, comfort or connection.

💙 "May I be loved."

It could be a need to feel better, or healing from your pain.

💙 "May I be well."

It could also simply be a need for more rest.

💙 "May I have time to recover."

Or a need for yourself to be kinder, or more accepting of your present pain.

💙 "May I get through this difficult day."

And when you're ready, whisper to yourself this simple wish.

For you are struggling already, and you deserve love and kindness instead.

Take care,
Hernping

P.s. Especially for those struggling with valentines day today.

May you find comfort too.

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It's been 3 days since I tore my left knee tendon completely. There's a teeny bit of pain but that's okay.

But what's really been getting me down is not being able to work or move around freely.

Feeling like I'm not able to do very much, other than worry about all the appointments I've had to reschedule (thank you 🙏).

Still I'm grateful for everyone's kindness, patience and well wishes.

I'm hoping for the best, and headed for surgery tomorrow :)

So here's me taking a moment to be kind to myself the night before too, wishing:

"May I be safe."

"May I give myself time to rest."

"May I be okay".

15/02/2023

Our first FREE networking event of the year is happening at 9am on Monday 20th Feb via Zoom!
We are delighted to be welcoming Michael Hempseed back as our first speaker of the year. Michael is the director of Frontiers of Hope and he will be talking to us about PTSD. He will also tell us about the new mental health service that has been set up at Frontiers of Hope.

PM us if you are interested and we'll provide a zoom link
https://www.foh.co.nz

15/02/2023

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