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Discover real stories of personal resilience and growth in the Mindarma podcast series. Senior Psychologist Dr Sadhbh Joyce and Senior Journalist Dean Yates speak with workers in some of the world’s most challenging occupations about work, life and how they take care of their own mental health. This podcast is a companion to our online evidence-based resilience training program, Mindarma (www.mindarma.com) which is supporting thousands of workers worldwide. Host: Dean Yates and Dr Sadhbh Joyce. Sound Editor: Jason Myatt. Producers: Dr Sadhbh Joyce and Jamie Watson.
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Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Dean Bayliss, a proud Gomeroi man and CEO of Healing Works Australia.Dean and he’s team are on the frontline of suicide prevention among First Nation’s People, a community where the suicide rate is nearly two and a half times that of non-indigenous Australians. Dean brings passion, insight, and humanity to his work. He is guided by his own lived experience of mental illness and an understanding that indigenous communities are the experts an...
Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is James Maskey, who works at Fortem Australia, a not-for-profit wellbeing support organisation for first responders and their families.James was 24 when he was diagnosed with PTSD in late 2013. James was a highly regarded young police officer stationed in the Logan district between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. In his own words, James was old enough to know his PTSD was from cumulative trauma, young enough to have no idea what it meant to live with the s...
Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Dr. Peter Baldwin, a clinical research fellow and clinical psychologist at The Black Dog Institute. Peter is an expert on burnout, a poorly understood condition that has received growing attention during the COVID-19 pandemic.While burnout is not a diagnosable mental illness, it is having a major impact on workers in occupations as diverse as healthcare, emergency services, legal, journalism, childcare and teaching.Indeed, Peter manages a Black ...
Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Leona Tan. Leona is a Senior Research Officer in the Workplace Mental Health Research Program at the Black Dog Institute and a PhD Candidate at the University of New South Wales. She commenced her PhD in 2020 with the aim of investigating how behavioural interventions can prevent the development of trauma-related mental disorders in first responders.She has authored notable publications on workplace mental health many of which have been pu...
Dr Scott Teasdale is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with UNSW Sydney, within the Mindgardens Neuroscience Network in Australia. As a clinical dietitian and researcher, he helped build a dietetic service (as part of a broader lifestyle program) from pilot to routine clinical care across a mental health service in Sydney. Dr Teasdale currently focuses on a broad range of real world effectiveness and implementation research that aim to reduce the health dispa...
Tony Walker ASM is the Chief Executive Officer at Ambulance Victoria. Tony is a Registered Paramedic with over thirty-five years’ experience working in a range of senior clinical, operational and leadership roles within the ambulance sector. Over the past six years he has led significant transformation at Ambulance Victoria to improve the health and wellbeing of their workforce and the response they provide to the community. Tony also holds an adjunct appointment as Associat...
Our next guest on the Mindarma Podcast is Scientia Associate Professor Simon Rosenbaum. Simon works at the School of Psychiatry at the UNSW in Sydney, and is an honorary fellow at the Black Dog Institute. Simon’s research focuses on physical activity, mental illness, sport for development and global mental health. Simon has worked with a variety of groups including youth, veterans, emergency service workers and refugees. Simon has published over 180 peer-reviewed publications including ...
As a track cyclist Anna Meares had a remarkable career. Anna holds the equal record for world championship wins, with 11 titles to her name. She is also the first Australian to win medals in different events over four Olympics, including gold in both Athens and London. For Anna another major career highlight came in 2016, when she was awarded the honour of being the flag bearer for the Australian team at the Rio Olympics. While the public has witnessed the many highlights of Anna’s caree...
Season 2 Coming Soon

Season 2 Coming Soon

2021-03-2100:51

Hello there, We're delighted to share that season 2 of the Mindarma podcast will commence next week. This year Dr Sadhbh Joyce will host the Mindarma podcast as our good friend - veteran journalist Dean Yates is working on finishing his memoir - which we are very much looking forward to reading. Listen in, as a selection of inspiring guests share their own stories of resilience and offer up their personal strategies for nourishing mental wellbeing. First up, is one of the world's most su...
Hello. It’s Dean Yates here, host of the Mindarma podcast. My next – and final guest -- for this year is Dr. Sadhbh Joyce. I was delighted when Sadhbh and her husband Jamie Watson, the co-founders of Mindarma, invited me to host this podcast series. It seems fitting to finish with a chat with Sadhbh.What struck me when I met Sadhbh a few years ago was her extraordinary knowledge of workplace mental health, combined with a passion and empathy I’d never encountered from someone in this field be...
Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Associate Professor Sam Harvey, chief psychiatrist at the Black Dog Institute and head of the workplace mental health team at the University of New South Wales.Sam is one of the world’s leading workplace mental health experts. Much of the ground-breaking workplace mental health research to come from Australia in the past decade has involved Sam. His advice is sought by governments, first responder organisations and the private sector. Sam also still p...
Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Marian Spencer, head of people and culture at the Black Dog Institute, a globally renowned medical organisation that researches every aspect of mental health. The Black Dog Institute translates that research into practical solutions for individuals, schools, organisations and governments.Marian has worked for 20 years in general and human resource management in the not-for-profit sector in London and Sydney. She believes in prioritising the human elem...
Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Guy Boland. Guy survived a light plane crash near Moree airport in March 2011 that killed his parents and older sister. The pilot of the six-seater plane was also killed. Guy suffered life-threatening injuries while his daughter Hannah was seriously hurt.Guy had more than 25 operations in hospital over the following years. He managed to recover enough to take over the running of the farming and petroleum businesses that his parents had managed around ...
I’m delighted that our next Mindarma podcast features two guests, John McGarvey and Pauline Askin, who talk about their roles as peer supporters in the organisations they work for.John is a senior firefighter at Fire & Rescue NSW (FRNSW) and has been a member of the FRNSW peer network for over 10 years. John is also a Mental Health First Aid Instructor. FRNSW has had a peer support network for nearly 30 years, one of the oldest among first responder organisations in Australia. It currentl...
Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Pam Barker, CEO of YFoundations, a not-for-profit organisation supporting young people in NSW at risk of, and experiencing, homelessness. Yfoundations is the peak body representing such youth in the state. Pam brings enormous knowledge, wisdom and passion in advocating for the homeless. Indeed, Pam herself was in and out of homelessness in Queensland for five years -- from the age of 14. This had a major impact on her education and wellbeing. She...
Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Miles Hunt, an industrial officer with the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, the union for Australia’s creative professionals.But in this podcast, Dean Yates talks to Miles about his decade-long career as a personal injury lawyer representing employees with psychological injury claims. As Miles explains, it was persistent bullying he experienced at school that instilled in him a desire to fight injustice. Miles paints an ugly picture of how...
In our first Mindarma podcast, Dean Yates talks to Senior Firefighter, author and PhD Scholar Tara J Lal. Tara is a full-time firefighter in Sydney. She helps run the psychological wellbeing program for Fire & Rescue NSW. She is trained in suicide prevention and mental health first aid. Tara is extremely passionate about mental health. She is now half-way through a PhD, in which she is researching how firefighters cope with the tragic suicides they encounter on the job. When so...
Introducing Mindarma

Introducing Mindarma

2020-06-3002:32

Welcome to the Mindarma Podcast Series - real conversations about what really matters. Hear what's coming up in our first series and a little background on our host Dean Yates.
Mindful Body Scan (welcoming sensation) accompanies week four of Mindarma's Self-Compassion Series for DFFH Victoria with Dr Sadhbh Joyce. Mindful Body Scan can help to release residual tension and support the body to anchor into a deeper state of relaxation and restoration. A shorter (6 mins) version of the practise is available via the Mindarma app and online here
This practise accompanies week 4 of the Self-Compassion Series for DFFH Victoria.This short mindfulness practise supports you in relaxing the mind and body by welcoming the goodness in life. You are invited to welcome a memory of true wonder and sweetness and bring your full attention to this moment of goodness. You may carry this sense of appreciation, delight and contentment with you throughout the day.
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