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- In the name of Beyond Blue we Just Got Jeff’ed
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- The Impact of Church-Related Sexual Abuse
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- Honouring Chris Peterson
- Geelong – Transform your Vision
- Too Much of a Good Thing Indeed, Mr Bouris!
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- Not Season for Suffering
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- It’s Not Always Psychosis
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- Technology is Taking Our Focus
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- Responding to the Covid Challenges
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- The Tale of Two Heroes
- Hurting? Reach Out
- Hard to Be Happy
- So, How Many Hours Should We Work?
- Trump May Leave Us with Quite a Mess
- Act Now to Create Climate of Change
- Why We Must Make the Effort Not to Let Fear Win
- Event the Last Word in Writer’s Festival
- What Drives People to Dress as Creepy Clowns
- Focussing on the Power of the Positive
- Positivity Borne Out by Roll of the Dice
- Power of Positive Psychology Pays Off
- System Should Aim for Peace of Mind
- Passion is One Thing, Obsession Another
- Politics Needs an Age of Enlightenment
- Better Access Scheme Shows Its Worth
- Threatened Scheme Has Many Benefits
- Optimism Needed for Mental Health
- Church Victims Need Specialised Help
- Our Lives are in the Safest of Hands
- For Many Arsonists, Where There’s Smoke There’s Ire
- Unlearning Habits that Lead to Violence
- Response to Abuse Harms Society’s Spiritual Life
- Response to Abuse Harms Society’s Spiritual Life
- Supra-Rational Thinking Worth Thought
- Planning a Resolution? Think Small
- Surge of Confidence Can Lift Our City
- The Call May be Distant, but it Will Come
- Pain Can be Effective Against Trauma
- Synchronicity – A Tick From the Universe
- Help and Support Can Lift the Fog of the Black Dog
- Abused as Children – Let’s Not Betray Them as Adults
- Abused as Children – Let’s Not Betray Them as Adults
Podcast
- The Basics of Anger Management
- Dealing with Conflict
- The Role of Meaning in Mental Health
- From Surviving to Thriving with Dr Ken Harris
- Logotherapy and the Search for Meaning
- Socrates to Stoicism – Modern Meaning from Ancient Greece, Part 2
- Socrates to Stoicism – Modern Meaning from Ancient Greece
- Stoicism: The Seeds of Psychological Therapy
- Snippets About Stoicism and Psychology
- Christmas – A Season of Suffering for Some
- Bolstering Wellbeing – Three Tips from Top Psychologists
- Learning How to Sting
- Temporary to Transformative – Types of Change
- Creative Approaches to Mental Health Support
- Your Active Approach to Mental Health
- Becoming Unstuck – Change it, Accept it, or Leave
- Demystifying Adult ADHD with Dr Ozgur Yalcin
- Undoing Resentment with Gratitude
- Treating PTSD with EMDR
- Addressing Trauma Memories with Exposure Therapy
- Navigating Neurodivergence
- Strengthening Our Resilience to Stress and Strain
- Cultivating Positive Networks with Dr Juliet Trail
- Contrasting Character Strengths with Schema
- Curbing Unrelenting Standards
- Expressing Ourselves Freely: The Essentials of Schema Therapy
- Developing Your Self & Your Self-Control: The Essentials of Schema Therapy
- Feeling Disconnected & Rejected: The Essentials of Schema Therapy
- Supporting Change with Chair Work
- The Significance of Taking the Next Step
- Belief in Ghosts – Is it Irrational?
- Benefits of Sharing Sacred Stories
- The Satisfaction of Spectator Sport
- Monitoring and Measuring To Promote Positive Change
- Heeding the Need to Ask For Help
- Promoting Synchronicity in Ten Steps
- Soaring with Synchronicity – feat. Lisa Buksbaum
- Relationships: Typical Traps to Avoid
- Enriching Our Relationships
- Enhancing Mental Health in Groups
- Applying Positive Psychology on the Big Screen
- Practical Progress in Personality Change
- Some Basics of Schema Therapy
- A Fellowship of Famous Failures
- Reflecting on Failure as Feedback
- Dealing with a Driving Phobia
- Developing a Perspective on Panic
- The Benefits Beyond the Barriers
- Exploring the Evolution of Exercise – Let’s Get Physical
- Ease Agitation with Bilateral Stimulation
- A Rewarding Release: Biographical Writing
- Mentors and Our Mental Health
- What Makes Effective Therapy?
- More Mentalising – Some Therapy Strategies
- Effective Empathising with Mentalising
- Encouraging Emotional Intelligence in Kids
- Illuminating Emotional Intelligence
- Is it Time to Cut Out Complaining?
- Metanoia: A Model for Breakdown and Growth
- Late Midlife and Other Life Crises
- The Meaning of a Midlife Crisis
- Beginnings, Middles and Endings – When the Timing is Telling
- Leveraging Our Levels of Energy
- Reducing Our Screen Time with David Cherry
- Building Better Habits (and Overcoming Bad Ones)
- Fortifying Our Focus in the Age of Distraction
- Increasing Our Creativity
- Calling On Our Creativity
- Synchronicity Supporting Life Choices
- When Too Much Choice is a Challenge
- Flow, Friendships and Families
- Flourishing with Flow
- Revisiting Our Strengths
- Dealing with Uncertainty and Omicron
- Regulating Responses to Threat
- The Intolerance of Irrational Ideas
- Overcoming Pain with Mark Grant
- The ABC of CBT
- The Sustenance of Social Support
- Psych Spiels Celebrates its 50
- A Freer Future with Physics
- Resilient Grieving with Dr Lucy Hone
- Gaining from the Gunas
- Strengthening Self-Compassion
- Supporting a Sense of Agency
- Demystifying DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder)
- Dealing with the Disruption of Depersonalisation
- Depersonalisation in Panic Attacks
- Lightening the Load
- The Mystery of the Mind – Beyond Conventional Healing
- Employing the Power of Placebo
- The Sustenance of Spiritual Experience
- Separating the Psycho-spiritual from Psychosis
- Discerning Our Stress Signature
- Extending Our Exercise
- The Hopefulness of the Hero’s Journey
- The Pitfalls of Perfectionism
- The Helpfulness of Hope
- Gaining Gratification Through Goals
- A Recipe of Resources
- The Snakiness of Psychopaths
- The Nastiness of Narcissism
- Supporting Someone to Seek Help
- Seeking a Suitable Psychologist
- Positive Psychology, Science and Synchronicity
- Synchronicity and Psychology
- Past, Present and Future – Talking about Time
- More than Mindfulness
- Drive, Soothing and Threat – Seeking a Synergy of Systems
- Psych Spiels Retrospective – The Bigger Themes
- Not Just Genes – A Recipe For Mental Health
- Fighting the Flat Feeling
- Weaning Off Worry
- Facing Phobias
- Mobilising Motivation
- Banishing Burnout
- Undoing the Affliction of Addictions
- Easing OCD
- Interpreting Anger
- Addressing Avoidance
- Demystifying Dissociation
- Transcending Trauma
- Dealing with Depression
- Episode 6 – Expunging Anxiety
- Episode 5 – Speaking of Sport
- Episode 4 – Navigating the Noise of the News
- Episode 3 – Quelling Quarrels in Quarantine
- Episode 2 – Exercising in Exile
- Episode 1 – Finding Flow within Four Walls
- Sleep Relaxation (Without Re-Alert)
- Sleep Relaxation
- Focussing Awareness
- Tension Release
- Deep Beneath the Ocean Relaxation
- RH 5
- RH 4
- RH 3
- RH 2
- RH 1
- MG 4
- MG – 3
- MG – 2
- MG1
- Charlotte Kerr – Mindfulness
- Dr Bree Hayes
- Jemma
- Joanna
- Ellie
- Shelley
- Naina Herle
- Dr Michael McCoy
- Chris Mackey
- Rebecca Findlow
- Bianca Tassone
- Nahanni Sutton
- Rowan: Digital Media Manager
- Shelagh Lloyd
- Jacqui
- Sue: Practice Manager
- Tanya Herrmann-Doig
- Dr Zora Bradonjic
- Mary Dimovski
- Cultivating Positive Networks with Dr Juliet Trail
- Drawing on Synchronicity to Promote Client Wellbeing
- Drawing on Synchronicity in Psychological Therapy
- Strategies for Managing Kids’ Anxiety & School Refusal with Nahanni Sutton
- How to Talk to Your Kids About Suicide
- Looking Back at Season Three of Destination Happiness
- Practical Tips for Finding Your Meaning and Purpose
- The Importance of Acceptance in Managing Anxiety and Depression
- Strategies for Dealing with Addictions
- Season 3 Audience Q and A – Destination Happiness
- How to Improve Your Relationship with the Five Love Languages
- The Physical and Mental Health Benefits of Spirituality
- Positive Ways of Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Chris Mackey and Associates Switches to Telehealth Psychology
- Bilateral Stimulation – Anxiety Release App Demonstration
- How to Manage Panic Attacks
- How to Deal with Suicidal Thoughts
- Connecting with Coincidence with Dr Bernie Beitman – Synchronicity and Positive Mental Health
- Synchronicity Interview – Beyond 50 Radio
- Synchronicity talk by Chris Mackey at C.G.Jung Society of Melbourne
- How to Face a Driving Phobia with Exposure Therapy
- Seeing Dyslexia Differently: Why it’s Not Just a Disadvantage
- Tips for Ageing Well
- The Benefits of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- What is Flow State and How Can it Be Accessed?
- How to Build Your Emotional Resilience
- The Importance of Building Your Tribe
- What is Anxiety and How Can it Be Treated?
- Tips For Focussing Attention
- How to Improve Your Self-Acceptance
- How Setting Goals Can Improve Your Wellbeing
- How to Find and Use Your Character Strengths
- How to Use Synchronicity to Learn From Depression
- Rising Above Bullying – One Teen’s Story
- What is Post-Traumatic Stress? Treating PTSD
- Managing Anger and Aggression
- Two Layers of Psychological Distress
- Three Coping Alternatives for Problem Situations
- When Facing a Crisis – The Four Stages of Change
- Facing Core Fears
- How to Identify and Use Your Signature Character Strengths
- How to Avoid Burnout
- Is Synchronicity Scientific?
- Where to Find Information About Synchronicity
- How to Draw on Synchronicity
- Chris Mackey’s Personal Examples of Synchronicity
- How Synchronicity Saved a Life
- Using Synchronicity in Clinical Practice
- The Benefits of Being Aware of Synchronicity
- What is Synchronicity?
- Chris Mackey Introduction – Watkins Publishing
- Mental Health in the workplace
- Stress Tips
- Destination Happiness Series 1 Preview
- Relaxation Track 3
- Relaxation Track 2
- Relaxation Track 1
- Synchronicity on Bay FM in 2019
- Chris Mackey on 3CR’s Brainwaves program
- Chris Mackey on Saturday Night with Dr Sally Cockburn – 3AW
- Synchronicity with Libbi Gorr on ABC 774
- Synchronicity on Bay FM in 2018
- Synchronicity and Data Collection
- Synchronicity interview with Libbi Gorr on ABC 774
- Synchronicity and Positive Mental Health
- Tips For a Happy Marriage
- Acts of kindness are win-win
- Advances in Positive Psychology – Messages from Montreal
- Synchronicity on Bay FM – 2017
- How Synchronicity Works – 93.9 Bay FM
- Synchronicity on 93.9 Bay FM Geelong
- Synchronicity interview with Mitch Foy, 99.9 Bay FM
- Positive Psychology and Parenting
- Burn Out – Part 2 of 2
- Burn Out – Part 1 of 2
- Positive Psychology and Marriage – Part 2 of 2
- Positive Psychology and Marriage – Part 1 of 2
- Character Strengths – Part 2 of 2
- Character Strengths – Part 1 of 2