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What if work was the solution not the cause? | Dr Kat Page (opens the original)
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In this episode Matt sits down with Dr Kat Page, organisational psychologist, author of Good Work, and one of the researchers behind the model that sits underneath most workplace mental health strategies in Australia. We get into why fixing the work is only half the job, what the new psychosocial legislation is actually producing on the ground, and what makes work good for the people doing it. What we cover • Where the integrated approach to workplace mental health came from, and how a 2014 pape
Is it Possible to Live Well with Cancer? (opens the original)
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Matt sits down with A/Prof Hannah Wardill, who leads the Supportive Oncology Research Group at the University of Adelaide and SAHMRI, and Natalie Tuckey, a health and clinical psychologist finishing a PhD on multiple myeloma. Together they've spent the past few years taking a wellbeing skills program built for workplaces and rebuilding it for people living with a rare, incurable blood cancer. It's delivered in peer groups by specialist myeloma nurses, and it exists because consumers asked for it
What If Asking the Right Question Could Improve Someone's Wellbeing? | Prof Christian van Nieuwerburgh (opens the original)
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Christian van Nieuwerburgh has trained thousands of coaches. He also says he isn't passionate about coaching. Matt asks the professor of coaching and positive psychology at RCSI what he actually cares about, and the answer has more to do with how you show up at school pickup than anything that happens in a formal coaching session. They get into positive presence, why the science of coaching should become invisible to the client, what coaching research keeps missing, and why coaching individuals
LIVE from ECPP26: Cleaning up the Mess of Measures in Positive Psychology (opens the original)
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In this special episode of Researching Happy, recorded at the European Conference on Positive Psychology in Dublin, Matthew Iasiello from Be Well Co and the University of Adelaide explores one of the most pressing issues in wellbeing science: the fragmented and inconsistent definitions of wellbeing. Iasiello presents a clear diagnosis of the problem — with nearly 100 different measures using widely varying dimensions, the field struggles with research synthesis, policy impact, and clear communic
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