What makes you happy?
For thousands of years, people have been trying to understand the causes of happiness. What is it that makes people happy?
Healthy thinking
When we change the way we look at things the things we look at change.
Mind Your Head
Featured articles
What is healthy thinking?
Healthy thinking doesn’t mean you have to be Ned Flanders 100% of the time!
Mindset
It’s never too late to grow your brain's capacity to learn and to solve problems. It’s simply a matter of developing a growth mindset!
Getting the jump on ‘jumpiness’
Do you sometimes jump out of your skin at the sudden sound of a door slamming in the wind? It could be the Startle Effect.
Create a mentally healthy workplace
It’s universally accepted that investing is workplace wellbeing is worthwhile.
Tough Talk
Psychologist Sam O'Sullivan is going around NZ talking to people about what it means to be tough on the inside.
The Canterbury Rollercoaster for Workplaces
Back by popular demand, the rollercoaster portrays the wide range of feelings people in Canterbury are experiencing. It's an excellent tool to check in with those around you.
Five Ways To Wellbeing at Work Toolkit
The Five Ways to Wellbeing at Work Toolkit supports New Zealand workplaces and their people to flourish.
Beat the back to work blues
5 tips to help you get back into the swing of things at work
The grief process
Grief is a profoundly difficult experience that most of us will have to endure at some point.
All Blacks mental skills coach on downtime
“They’re like pit stops in a race where you just go into to fill up energy.”
Downtime is good time!
Just a few minutes of quality downtime can boost our energy, focus, creativity, productivity and happiness
Our downtime activity low down
Our downtime actions have proven feel good benefits
Being Yourself? Manly As
Canterbury men are being asked to ditch the stereotypes and just be themselves
Trying new things is ‘manly as’ for one former Blackcap
Chris Harris faces his toughest competition...
How YOU can improve New Zealand’s mental health
There is one simple thing we can all do to help improve the country’s mental health – understand it.
Turn up the mindfulness to tone down the heat
How the practise of mindfulness can stop you from serving hot sauce to your enemies...
Good friends are made in good time
How many hours does it take for an acquaintance to become a friend?
Wellbeing promotion benefiting mental health service users
An evaluation shows that All Right? messaging is benefiting those experiencing poor mental health.
We're all in this together
Our He waka eke noa campaign reminds people that there are simple things we can do every day, to look after ourselves and others - even when times are tough. The accompanying resources are available nationwide and come in many languages.