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Increasing Motivation Part 2

Download PDF here! This is the second paper on motivation. The previous paper focused on creating & regulating a dopamine-based classroom. One of the characteristics of neurodivergent kids that I admire is, if they don’t see a point to doing something they won’t do it. End of story. Most of them are harder to [...]

By |2024-01-24T15:19:23+11:00August 21st, 2023|Categories: Positive Psychology|Tags: |0 Comments

Increasing Motivation Part 1

Download PDF here! Motivation is a slippery customer. Just when you want to rely on it, it puts its feet up, takes a few days off & generally wants to be about as active as a sloth on long service leave. Your ‘get up & go’ has ‘got up & gone’. A Slightly Potted [...]

By |2024-01-24T15:19:09+11:00August 14th, 2023|Categories: Positive Psychology|Tags: |2 Comments

Neurodiversity and Learning Strengths – Gifted students

The most recent research on brains & learning shows that we all have different patterns of processing information. This confers upon the human race a great advantage, in that collectively we are smart in different ways. Some people are more ‘neurotypical’ while others think in vastly different ways. This means that we need to focus [...]

By |2023-08-02T10:41:40+10:00July 28th, 2023|Categories: Creativity, Education, Learning, Social and Emotional Learning|Tags: |0 Comments

Helping girls regain their confidence and motivation

While the pandemic years have challenged us all, the effects have been especially severe for girls and young women. They are the most likely to experience the ‘disorders of distress’- anxiety and depression and for some, self- harm, and body insecurity. I want to combine the conversations I have been having in my therapy [...]

By |2023-03-10T11:23:32+11:00March 9th, 2023|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Positive Psychology|Tags: |0 Comments

14 Big impact strategies for increasing wellbeing

Andrew Fuller Increasing wellbeing is easiest when an entire school or community take it on as a core aim. It is easiest when wellbeing becomes everybody’s business. Together let‘s aim to make wellness contagious. Download article as a PDF Awareness and Metacognition Very few of us are as consistently observant of our own wellbeing [...]

By |2023-02-17T09:27:59+11:00February 15th, 2023|Categories: Wellbeing|Tags: |1 Comment

Negative feedback is part of academia (and life) – these 6 strategies can help you cope

Joseph Crawford, University of Tasmania; Kelly-Ann Allen, Monash University, and Lea Waters, The University of Melbourne Imagine you have years-worth of research and it is dismissed by a 15-word rejection letter from a journal editor. That has happened to us. Or peer reviewers write demeaning, anonymous commentary about your work. That has also happened to [...]

By |2022-10-18T16:28:34+11:00September 16th, 2022|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

Andrew Fuller’s 5Rs recipe for fast recovery from high stress situations

Andrew Fuller If you have ever plugged in too many devices at home and caused a blackout, you’ll know what it is like when a circuit becomes overloaded. Everything shuts down. This happens for people too after really high stress situations. We can all shift from ‘all-systems are-go, action stations’ status where we are on [...]

By |2023-02-14T10:32:58+11:00July 28th, 2022|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: |0 Comments

How not to get PTSD and remain relatively sane

Andrew Fuller, Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychologist, My Learning Strengths How not to get PTSD in trying times Everyone seems to be either shrinking away in fear of one another or heaving a sigh of relief and pretending everything is hunky dory.  I’m not sure we are clear anymore about where the news stories end and [...]

By |2020-06-18T15:43:53+10:00June 18th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

40% of Australian principals are victims of physical violence

- Theresa Dicke, Australian Catholic University; Geetanjali Basarkod, Australian Catholic University; Herb Marsh, Australian Catholic University; Jiesi Guo, Australian Catholic University; Philip D. Parker, Australian Catholic University, and Philip Riley, Deakin University Almost all (97%) school principals in Australia work overtime. More than 70% work more than 56 hours per week during school terms and [...]

By |2020-05-11T14:03:06+10:00May 11th, 2020|Categories: Education|0 Comments

A powerful opportunity for change

Can the challenges we face during the coronavirus pandemic help us reconsider what matters most and how we live our lives? - Professor David Forbes The challenges we are all facing as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have the potential to cause serious and sometimes long-lasting problems for individuals and societies. But can they [...]

By |2020-05-11T14:02:48+10:00May 11th, 2020|Categories: Society & Culture|0 Comments
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